Senior Business Analyst

Portfolio Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business solutions provider in Manchester seeks an experienced analyst to lead product teams, ensuring the definition and delivery of solutions within budget and on time. The ideal candidate will excel in data analysis, communication, and mentoring junior analysts. This role offers an opportunity for personal development and exposure to the latest industry trends.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to analyze data and make informed recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex ideas to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in leading workshops and agile ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product team in defining problems and metrics.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure timely product delivery.
• Mentor junior analysts to develop their skills.

Skills

Strong data analysis

Communication

Attention to detail

Agile methodologies

Leadership skills

Job description

Overview

What You’ll Be Doing

Responsibilities

Analysis: Lead the product team in defining problems, forming return on investment, and agreeing on success metrics. Conduct requirements gathering sessions, elicit and elaborate requirements, facilitating the negotiation between stakeholders and delivery team. Break larger problems into suitably small chunks so they can be addressed through a series of development.

Delivery: Collaborate with and support the delivery team, contributing to the definition and delivery of the product to a high standard, within agreed timescales and within budget. Mentor junior business analysts to advance and develop their skills.

Personal Development: Growth is a constant. Allocate time to expand your knowledge, keeping abreast of the latest industry trends, tools, and techniques to push your capabilities and our solutions forward.

Essential skills

• Strong data analysis, identifying insights and making data driven recommendations.
• Ability to break down complex problems and communicate them accurately and effectively to a team with different skill sets.
• High attention to detail, and ability to create comprehensive documentation.
• Lead efficient and valuable in person workshops, requirements gathering sessions and product demonstrations that promote open communication and collaborative working.
• Highly adaptable and skilled in change management.
• Able to negotiate and compromise to find the balance between best practice, expediency, and longer-term maintenance costs.
• Excels in communicating complex strategies and decisions to a wide variety of stakeholders, including non-technical members in a way that can easily be understood.
• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment, facilitating/ participating in agile ceremonies.
• ‘One business’ mindset, consideration for all areas of the business and contribution to our company vision.
• Leadership skills, mentoring, and coaching junior business analysts to advance and develop.
• Experience in senior stakeholder management on a global level.
• Explores new techniques and promotes best practice across the guild