Business Analyst Apprentice

Government jobs, apprenticeship; Manchester; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the healthcare sector offers a Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship in Manchester. This role provides hands-on experience in business analysis, focusing on data collection, process documentation, and stakeholder communication, preparing you for a successful career in business analysis.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Free Car Parking

Company Pension & Health Cover

On-the-Job Training

Qualifications

• Desirable qualifications include a degree in Business or a relevant subject.
• Skills in communication, IT, organization, teamwork, and a non-judgmental attitude are essential.

Responsibilities

• Assist in gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data for business decisions.
• Support the documentation of business processes and requirements.
• Prepare reports and presentations for stakeholders.

Skills

Communication skills

IT skills

Organisation skills

Team working

Non judgemental

Education

Degree in Business

Other in Relevant Subject

Tools

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)

Data Modelling

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

SWOT & PESTLE

Job description

Summary
You will work closely with senior team members to support projects that analyse, document, and improve business processes. This apprenticeship offers a hands-on learning experience in a fast-paced environment and an opportunity to build skills for a career in business analysis.

Wage
£25,000 a year

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Training course Business analyst (level 4)

Hours Monday to Friday (Shifts: 8.00am - 4.00pm, 9.00am - 5.00pm and 10.00am - 6.00pm).
37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date
Tuesday 24 June 2025

Duration
1 year 6 months

Positions available
1

Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You'll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

• Data collection & analysis: Assist in gathering, analyzing and interpreting data from various sources to support business decisions and identify trends, patterns, and insights.
• Process documentation: Support the documentation of existing business processes, workflows, and requirements by observing operations and collaborating with team members.
• Requirements gathering: Work with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements, ensuring a clear understanding of project needs and objectives.
• Reporting & presentations: Prepare reports, summaries, and presentations for various stakeholders using tools like Excel, PowerPoint, and other data visualization tools.
• Testing & validation: Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) and validate business requirements against delivered solutions.
• Project support: Assist in project planning and coordination tasks, helping to track timelines, risks, and deliverables.
• Stakeholder communication: Learn to communicate effectively with stakeholders to clarify requirements, present findings, and gather feedback on ongoing projects.

Where you'll work

Unit 3
South Langworthy Road
Salford
Greater Manchester
M50 2PW

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You'll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

QA LIMITED

Your training course

Business analyst (level 4)

What you'll learn

• Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
• Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
• Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
• Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
• Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
• Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
• Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
• Elicit process information from stakeholders
• Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
• Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
• Produce models of redesigned business processes
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
• Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
• Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
• Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
• Validate requirements with stakeholders
• Support the establishment of requirements traceability
• Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
• Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
• Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
• Support the development of models of future state business situations
• Identify key differences between current and future business situations
• Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
• Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
• Support business acceptance of business and system changes
• Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
• Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
• Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
• Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
• Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience

Your training plan

Why choose our Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship?

Our Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship develops learners to investigate information systems solutions and gain the know-how to improve operational efficiency for your organisation. The principles of data analytics are being applied across just about every industry. Using past-event data, business analysts are making important insight-based business decisions and driving customer value across every team and function, including operations, finance, sales and marketing.

QA's Business Analyst Level 4 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:

• Become a change professional that helps organisations deliver business and digital change successfully
• Regularly investigate and analyse solutions to ensure the right one is chosen
• Experience a flexible learning journey using a blend of learning methodologies, including online learning, practical exercises, video content, coaching and workshops

Tools and technologies learned: Apprentices will learn to use Unified Modeling Language (UML), Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Data Modelling, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), SWOT & PESTLE.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

Degree in:
Business (grade Any)
Other in:
Relevant subject (grade Any)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Organisation skills
• Team working
• Non judgemental

About this company

The company are a pharmaceutical wholesaler offering a wide range of services to the healthcare sector and pharmaceutical industry. Their commitment to excellence and high service levels has gained the company its reputation as a leading partner to the healthcare sector, both primary and secondary care, pharmaceutical industry, and academic institutes.

Company benefits

Flexible hybrid working Free Car Parking Company Pension & Heath Cover On-the-Job Training: Hands-on experience working on real projects under the guidance of experienced business analysts and project managers.

After this apprenticeship

Career Development opportunity to potentially be offered a permanent role within the company on successful completion of the Apprenticeship after you have built foundational Business Analysis skills during your time on the apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

QA LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000321612.

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Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 17 June 2025)

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