Commercial Business Analyst

Fruition IT; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Fruition IT in Leeds is seeking a Commercial Business Analyst to drive commercial impact through AI-driven solutions. You will work with clients to baseline costs, model value, and tie outcomes to board-level OKRs in a hybrid setup.

The role requires strong BA foundations in elicitation, process mapping, and financial modelling, with the ability to communicate recommendations to senior leaders and influence strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience elicitation, process mapping, and conducting workshops and interviews.
• Ability to build and track business cases with quantified benefits.
• Analytical rigour with imperfect data and defensible numbers.
• Commercial awareness of consulting pricing, scoping, and drift control.
• Strong communication to senior stakeholders up to board level.
• Solid understanding of AI principles and adoption drivers.
• Ability to identify and scope the next commercial opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Baselining current-state operations and costing to support value claims.
• Build quantified business cases with sensitivity analysis on key assumptions.
• Model realised value and adjust for adoption and integration impact.
• Advise on build-vs-buy decisions with clear justifications.
• Connect solutions to client OKRs and board-level metrics.
• Track benefits against baseline through pilots to prove impact.
• Support go/adjust/stop decisions with evidence-based reasoning.
• Deliver BA activities: elicitation, process analysis, documentation.
• Turn engagement evidence into reusable value benchmarks.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Workshops & interviews

Financial modelling

Business case development

Stakeholder management

AI literacy

Executive communication

Opportunity discovery

Job description

Job Title: Commercial Business Analyst

Location: Leeds (Hybrid)

Why Apply?

This is a Business Analyst position in Leeds for someone who wants commercial impact, not just documentation. You'll work for a fast-growing consultancy that builds AI-driven solutions tied directly to client cost, profitability and board-level OKRs, sitting alongside Delivery Leads and Forward Deployed AI Engineers. If you're searching for a full-time Business Analyst role where your output becomes the evidence base for major business decisions, this is it, with the flexibility of a hybrid set-up and a genuine path through one of the more interesting corners of consultancy careers today.

Commercial Business Analyst Responsibilities

• Baselining current-state operations, covering cost, volume, errors and time, to give every value claim a starting point
• Building quantified business cases, weighing best case against realistic value with sensitivity analysis on key assumptions
• Modelling realised, not just potential, value, adjusting for adoption, effectiveness and integration
• Advising on build-vs-buy decisions, with clear reasoning behind each call
• Connecting every solution to client OKRs and board-level metrics, translating operational gains into cost and margin terms
• Tracking benefits against baseline through pilots, so impact is proven with evidence rather than assumption
• Contributing to go/adjust/stop decisions, including making the honest case to stop
• Delivering classic BA work on established engagements: requirements elicitation, process analysis and documentation
• Turning engagement evidence into reusable value benchmarks and proof points for future work

Commercial Business Analyst Requirements

• A strong business analysis foundation: requirements elicitation, process mapping, structured interviews, workshops and clear written synthesis
• Business case and financial modelling experience, including benefits identification, quantification and realisation tracking
• Analytical rigour with imperfect data, producing defensible numbers with honest confidence bounds
• Commercial awareness of how consulting engagements are priced, scoped and protected from drift
• A confident communicator, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders up to board level
• Solid AI literacy, able to challenge feasibility claims and understand what drives adoption of AI tools
• A sharp eye for spotting and scoping the next opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.