Senior Business Analyst (FTC - 2 years)

Greencore; Worksop; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual Target Bonus

Car Allowance

Pension up to 8% matched

Life insurance up to 4x salary

PMI Cover: Individual

Company share save scheme

Exclusive employee discount platform

Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Job summary

A leading food company in the UK is seeking a skilled Senior Business Analyst to take part in a significant digital transformation initiative. The successful candidate will lead the analysis and improvement of business processes, ensuring that technology supports overall business goals. With a focus on logistics and distribution, this role offers a mix of project leadership and technical expertise, making it essential for operational efficiency. Competitive salary and benefits are part of the offer.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in business systems analysis and process/organizational transformation.
• Attention to detail and strong analytical approach to problem solving.
• Understanding of software testing and IT applications.

Responsibilities

• Define and improve business processes and information flows.
• Manage and lead small to medium sized business projects.
• Build relationships to ensure clear understanding of requirements.
• Build relationships across IT and business teams to clarify priorities.

Skills

Business systems analysis

Process engineering

Problem solving

Inter-personal skills

Coaching and mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Software testing

IT applications

Job description

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

Why is this exciting for your career as a Senior Business Analyst?

The MBE Programme presents a huge opportunity for colleagues across the technology function to play a central role in the design, shape, delivery and execution of an enterprise-wide digital transformation programme. The complexity of the initiative, within a FTSE 250 business, will allow for large-scale problem solving, group wide impact assessment and supporting the delivery of an enablement project to future proof the business. You will lead the investigation, analysis, review and documentation of specific business requirements to propose improvements in people and system processes and the information they provide to drive business value. As a Senior Business Analyst you will need to coordinate this process, without direct guidance from others, you will work under your own initiative.

As a Senior Business Analyst, working on our OMS project you will play a vital role in the review and potential replacement of our incumbent iSeries-based solution sales and order management application. Working closely with stakeholders, you'll assess current processes, identify improvement opportunities, and help shape a futureready solution that enhances operational efficiency and customer experience. You'll drive requirements gathering, support vendor and technology evaluations, and ensure alignment with strategic goals. Experience within logistics and distribution in an IT context is highly desirable, but not essential.

What you'll be doing:

• Understand and improve the inter-relationships between business processes, people procedures, systems and their associated information flows
• Assist in defining, planning and preparing Project Capital requests, delivery plans and associated business benefits and new ways of working
• Accurately identifies and specifies business solutions that satisfy business requirements and improve business performance
• Builds relationships, to influence and work collaboratively across IT and business teams to ensure a clear understanding of priority detailed requirements that need to be delivered and supported in ongoing live service
• Ensure user testing & training requirements are understood, documented, and supports user adoption of new initiatives and ways of working
• Manage and lead small to medium sized business process and solution related projects
• Meticulously follow BA standards and processes, including the documentation of requirements and tests. Actively contributes to improving those standards and processes
• Support the development of peers and junior colleagues within the BA community, sharing knowledge, experience and best practice to improve the overall quality of business analysis within Group IT

What we're looking for:

• You will have proven experience in business systems analysis, process engineering, process/organisational transformation and playing a lead role in project delivery (including benefit and risk management)
• You will show a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving. You will have excellent depth of experience within Business Analysis and you will be confident is sharing best practice ways of working
• You will be the type of individual that pays close attention to detail. You will have good inter-personal skills and you will be confident in dealing with business team leads to influence business change
• The successful candidate will have good understanding of software testing, from planning, execution and tracking to ensure smooth validation of business requirements largely ahead of UAT / Live running
• You must have a strong understanding of IT applications and infrastructure, and a commitment to continuingly improving your knowledge of this
• Ability to coach and mentor others
• Strong communicator & ability to solve problem

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Annual Target Bonus
• Car Allowance
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• PMI Cover: Individual
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.