Lead Business Analyst

Medirest Signature; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK seeks a Lead Business Analyst in Preston to oversee business analysis functions for a major programme. This role involves managing stakeholder relationships, defining project requirements, and leading a team of analysts, offering competitive benefits including a salary of circa £45,000 based on experience.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Flexible discounted health and wellbeing benefits

Employee share plans

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Experience with eliciting and documenting project requirements.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across multiple business functions.
• Previous experience in a structured IT project environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead on understanding business needs and defining project scope.
• Create programme-level business analysis approaches and manage deliverables.
• Attend stakeholder meetings and support a team of analysts.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Requirement elicitation

Business process analysis

Education

Recognised Business Analysis qualifications

ITIL certification

Job description

Job Title: Lead Business Analyst

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £45,000 depending on experience

What you'll be doing:

• Lead on understanding the business need when demand enters the programme, define initial project scope and be able to articulate the supporting business justification
• Lead BA function on a major programme of work
• Create programme level approaches Business Analysis
• Keep holistic view across the programme and ensure best practice is followed
• Support and direct a team of Business Analysts on their daily project expectations and help unblock their issues
• Attend programme level stakeholder meetings to be the voice of Business Analysis
• Report into the Senior BA/Capability Lead making sure issues are escalated and seek their support and oversight where needed
• Prioritise BA deliverables and communicate these to the project BA's

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of eliciting, documenting and prioritising requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture
• Previous experience of stakeholder management including influencing different levels of stakeholder multiple business functions and areas

Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well governed IT Project environment
• Recognised Business Analysis qualifications such as BCS BA Diploma, IIBA, Agile BA
• IT qualification such as ITIL certification
• Experience of working at a programme level or delivering across multiple simultaneous projects
• Evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Business Analyst team:

We are a team of experienced Business Analyst professionals who deliver an end-to-end capability by engaging early on in the process to establish the needs of our customers, elicit their requirements, understand the impact of the change, and deliver tangible benefits. We provide a wide range of Service Offerings underpinned by industry recognised tools and techniques.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 23rd June 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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