Senior Business Analyst

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

Job summary

A leading consultancy in the UK is seeking an experienced analyst to lead product teams and manage stakeholder communications effectively. This role encompasses analyzing business problems, mentoring junior analysts, and ensuring successful product delivery within a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will possess strong data analysis skills, effective communication, and leadership abilities to foster a culture of growth and excellence in service delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong data analysis skills and making data-driven recommendations.
• Ability to communicate complex problems effectively.
• Experience in agile environments facilitating ceremonies.
• Proven leadership skills in mentoring others.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product team in defining problems and success metrics.
• Collaborate with delivery team to ensure high-quality product delivery.
• Mentor junior business analysts for skill advancement.
• Stay updated with industry trends for personal growth.

Skills

Strong data analysis

Ability to break down complex problems

High attention to detail

Lead workshops and requirements gathering

Highly adaptable

Negotiation skills

Effective communication

Experience in agile environments

Leadership skills

Global stakeholder management

Job description

Posted On : 15th August 2024

What You’ll Be Doing

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