Product Analyst - Asset Value Streams

SSE; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts on private healthcare

Gym memberships

Online GP and 24/7 counselling

Cycle to Work scheme

Job summary

SSE Thermal is seeking an experienced Product Analyst to join our Agile delivery team. You will lead discovery, translate outputs into epics and user stories, and collaborate with product owners to shape digital products that improve asset maintenance and operations.

Base location options include Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth, Reading or Havant. This permanent, full‑time role is salary £50,964–£60,899 plus benefits, with Flexible First options and 50% travel to locations as required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience translating complex business needs into clear requirements for technology delivery.
• Experience leading analysis across discovery, requirements, delivery and testing in Agile environments.
• Strong process-analysis skills with artefacts such as process maps, user stories, use cases and acceptance criteria.
• Understanding of how data supports business processes and decisions, including data sources and definitions.
• Experience in power generation, utilities, manufacturing or other safety-critical industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery for assigned demands with SMEs and tech teams to define problem, outcomes, dependencies and measures of success.
• Translate discovery outputs into epics, features, user stories, use cases and acceptance criteria.
• Create wireframes or prototypes using tools like Figma to communicate ideas with users and stakeholders.
• Identify data requirements including sources, definitions, quality and ownership.
• Refine and prioritise the backlog with the Product Owner balancing value, risk and effort.

Skills

Product analysis

Agile analysis

Process maps

Data awareness

Industry experience

Tools

Figma

Job description

Base Location: You\'ll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations; Glasgow, Aberdeen, Perth, Reading or Havant

Salary: £50,964 to £60,899 plus a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

Thermal IT is growing its Product Analysis capability and we’re looking for an experienced and proactive Product Analyst. You will work within a mature Agile operating model, alongside the Product Owners, business stakeholders and a multidisciplinary delivery team to shape and deliver digital products that improve how SSE Thermal operates, maintains and optimises its assets.

It’s a broad and evolving portfolio, offering the opportunity to work across varied value streams, products, processes and challenges such as maintenance and operational excellence, operational mobility and safe systems of work. You may support one or several of these use cases, depending on priorities and your experience.

You will

• Lead discovery for assigned demands, working with subject-matter experts and technical teams to define the problem, outcomes, dependencies, change implications, current and future processes and measures of success using proportionate techniques such as process maps, user journeys, use cases and data-flow views.


• Translate discovery outputs into clear epics, features, user stories, use cases, functional and non-functional requirements, acceptance criteria and supporting product documentation.


• Where applicable, create wireframes, mock‑ups or prototypes using tools such as Figma to explore requirements, communicate ideas and validate potential solutions with users and stakeholders


• Identify integration, information and data requirements; including sources, definitions, data quality, ownership, security, timeliness and retention


• Work with the Product Owner to refine and prioritise the backlog, balancing safety, business value, user need, technical feasibility, risk, dependencies and delivery effort.

You have

• Proven experience as a Product Analyst, Business Analyst or similar role, translating complex business and user needs into clear requirements for technology delivery.


• Experience leading analysis across discovery, requirements, delivery, testing and implementation in an Agile or product-led environment.


• Strong process‑analysis skills and practical experience producing artefacts such as process maps, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, data requirements and options assessments.


• An understanding of how data supports business processes and decisions, including basic concepts such as data sources, fields, definitions, quality and ownership.


• Ideally, experience in power generation, utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing, transport, process industries or another safety‑critical, asset‑intensive industrial environment.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro‑electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.

Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.

SSE Thermal help keep electricity available for millions of people while pioneering low‑carbon technologies. From ground‑breaking carbon capture and storage projects to plans for what might be the world’s first hydrogen‑fired power station, we're transforming how flexible power supports a cleaner electricity system.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

• Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships.


• Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service.


• Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme.


• As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact [e-mail] / 01738 275846 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.