Business Architect (Ref: 198501)

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Forsyth Barnes Consultancy is partnering with a leading Retail sector client to appoint a Business Architect to join the Transformation team. You will lead shaping and assessment of strategic initiatives with senior leaders, defining challenges and outcomes before programmes mobilise.

You will design future-state operating models, organisation structures and governance, ensuring alignment with the wider business strategy and measurable value delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business architecture and large-scale transformation programmes.
• Ability to design future-state operating models and organisation structures.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead shaping and assessment of strategic initiatives with senior leaders.
• Design, develop and implement organisation models aligned to strategy.
• Develop transformation roadmaps and benefits realization plans.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders across functions.
• Support business cases and value delivery initiatives.

Skills

Business Architecture

Strategic Transformation

Organisation Design

Enterprise Design

Job description

about the role

About Us

Forsyth Barnes are excited to be partnering again with a returning client in the Retail Industry who are looking for a Business Architect to join their Transformation team.

Job Description

You’ll lead the shaping and assessment of strategic initiatives, working with senior leaders to define business challenges, opportunities and desired outcomes before programmes are mobilised. You’ll create structured approaches for evaluating investment opportunities and developing compelling recommendations that support strategic decision-making.

A key part of the role will involve designing, developing and implementing organisation models that enable the business to achieve its strategic objectives. You’ll assess how teams, processes, capabilities and governance structures operate today, identifying opportunities to optimise organisational effectiveness, improve collaboration and support future growth. Using business insight, data and industry best practice, you’ll develop recommendations for future organisation structures, operating models and ways of working that align with the wider business strategy.

You’ll develop and maintain business capability models, future-state business architectures and transformation roadmaps, identifying capability gaps and ensuring people, process, technology and data considerations are fully integrated into transformation plans. You’ll analyse current organisational structures and business processes to identify best practices, improve efficiency and enhance overall business performance. Working closely with Enterprise Architecture and Technology teams, you’ll help ensure business and technology strategies are designed as a single, joined-up solution. You’ll facilitate workshops, engage stakeholders across Retail, Commercial, Digital, Supply Chain and Support Functions, and provide trusted advice to senior leaders sponsoring change initiatives.

You’ll also support the development of business cases, benefits frameworks and value realisation plans, helping ensure our transformation investments remain focused on delivering sustainable business outcomes and measurable value.

Key Responsibilities

• Significant experience in Business Architecture, Strategic Transformation, Organisation Design or Enterprise Design roles
• Experience designing future-state operating models, organisational structures, business capabilities and transformation roadmaps
• Strong understanding of organisational design principles, business architecture frameworks and large-scale business change programmes
• Proven ability to analyse organisational effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities and develop recommendations that support business strategy
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and executive audiences