Programme Business Analyst

Job Description

Role Overview

Contract: Temporary until March 2025

Are you passionate about driving meaningful change in healthcare and public health? Do you excel at analysing complex processes and facilitating impactful transformations? If so, join the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and play a pivotal role in improving the timeliness and efficiency of our guidance production.

NICE is a world-leading organisation providing national guidance and advice to improve health and social care. Our work ensures the NHS and public health services deliver the best care possible, efficiently and effectively, while promoting value for taxpayers.

Their Improving Timeliness Programme is central to enhancing the speed and quality of guidance production across clinical guidelines, health technology evaluations, and medicines. This programme also seeks to improve staff experience and increase the efficiency of our guidance-producing teams.

Responsibilities

• As a Programme Business Analyst, you will be at the heart of transforming how NICE develops and delivers guidance. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, you will:
• Map and analyse current processes to identify opportunities for standardisation and improvement.
• Conduct time and motion studies to evaluate resource usage and identify efficiencies.
• Support the design and monitoring of performance metrics to track progress and impact.
• Facilitate workshops and discussions with stakeholders to develop optimised process proposals.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement by supporting teams in implementing change.

• A degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Qualifications in process mapping and improvement frameworks (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
• Experience as a Business Analyst in process redesign projects.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with tools like Microsoft Office and process mapping software.

• PRINCE2 or ITIL Practitioner certification.
• Experience in health or social care environments.
• Knowledge of business planning and change management.