Business Analyst

STRABAG; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

STRABAG in Manchester is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead project and division level requirements, run workshops with stakeholders, and translate challenges into scalable solutions. You will partner with business owners, SMEs, delivery teams and suppliers to ensure clear objectives and aligned priorities.

You will own end-to-end validation, guide UAT, map as-is and to-be processes, and drive delivery roadmaps with business leaders to meet strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Business analysis certification and substantial BA experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Self-starter with ability to plan and prioritise workloads.
• Experience with BAs and procurement teams, requirements analysis, and process improvement.
• Knowledge of Project Management, Agile, and Risk management.
• Awareness of ISO27001 and Data Protection Act.
• Familiarity with AI platforms and workflows (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead project and division level business requirements activities, proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders at all levels, fostering informed debate, alignment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ensuring clarity of objectives and manage competing priorities.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Create compelling business cases to demonstrate value.
• Act as a trusted advisor and senior liaison between business owners, stakeholders, and technology teams, helping stakeholders to come to agreement over competing demands.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business users, subject matter experts (SMEs), delivery teams, and suppliers.
• Working closely with cross-functional and software deployment teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Own end-to-end solution validation, leading UAT strategy, risk identification, and quality assurance to ensure outputs exceed business expectations.
• Drive the development of structured delivery roadmaps and implementation plans in partnership with business leaders, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives by analysing workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending automation or process redesign opportunities, mapping as-is and to-be processes.
• Critically assess existing documentation, systems, and interfaces to drive standardisation, improved governance, and enhanced operational efficiency.
• Lead the design and enhancement of executive dashboards and reporting frameworks to support performance monitoring and strategic insights.
• Establish reporting standards and act as the escalation point for complex analytical requests, ensuring timely and high-quality insight delivery.
• Support adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Self-starter

Planning

Prioritisation

Requirements analysis

Process improvement

Procurement collaboration

Agile

Risk management

ISO27001 awareness

Data protection awareness

AI platforms (desirable)

Education

Business Analysis Certification

Job description

Tasks

Business requirements management

• Lead project and division level business requirements activities, proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Facilitate and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels, fostering informed debate, alignment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ensuring clarity of objectives and manage competing priorities.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Create compelling business cases to demonstrate value.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor and senior liaison between business owners, stakeholders, and technology teams, helping stakeholders to come to agreement over competing demands.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business users, subject matter experts (SMEs), delivery teams, and suppliers.

Delivery

• Working closely with cross-functional and software deployment teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Own end-to-end solution validation, leading UAT strategy, risk identification, and quality assurance to ensure outputs exceed business expectations.
• Drive the development of structured delivery roadmaps and implementation plans in partnership with business leaders, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Business Improvement

• Champion continuous improvement initiatives by analysing workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending automation or process redesign opportunities, mapping as-is and to-be processes.
• Critically assess existing documentation, systems, and interfaces to drive standardisation, improved governance, and enhanced operational efficiency.
• Lead the design and enhancement of executive dashboards and reporting frameworks to support performance monitoring and strategic insights.
• Establish reporting standards and act as the escalation point for complex analytical requests, ensuring timely and high-quality insight delivery.
• Support adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.

Qualifications

• Business analysis or related certification.
• Significant business analysis experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Self-Starter, goal oriented, able to plan and prioritise workloads and hit the ground running.
• Experience of working with BAs and procurement teams, requirements analysis and process improvement.
• Proficient in Project Management, Agile, Risk management.
• Awareness of ISO27001 and Data Protection Act.
• AI platforms and workflows (desired, not required).