Strategic Business Analyst — Change & Data Enablement

Bettys and Taylors Group; Harrogate; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary profit-share bonus

Flexible & family-friendly benefits

Meals and drinks provided

Product discounts

Health & wellbeing programs

Pension & life assurance

Development opportunities

Job summary

Bettys & Taylors Group in Harrogate is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Functional Architecture Team on a fixed-term contract to October 2026. Based at Plumpton Park, you will translate business change objectives into clear functional requirements for system and non-system work.

You will ensure traceability through testing, training and change lifecycle, and collaborate with SMEs and project teams to define scope, estimate effort, and sustain effective BAU support across multiple brands

Qualifications

• Experience in IT-enabled change projects with process and data analysis.
• Proven ability to gather requirements and trace to testing/training.
• Self-driven with a can-do attitude and strong relationship building.
• Ability to challenge the status quo and drive improvements.
• Experience in large-scale organizational change projects.
• Ability to align vision and requirements to solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead documentation of functional requirements for allocated change projects, including complex CRIMs in an agile environment.
• Collaborate with project teams to define project scope and estimate effort required.
• Partner with business SMEs to clarify problem statements and change objectives.
• Support education/upskilling of BAU teams in requirements articulation.
• Build strong working relationships with business change leads to redesign processes.
• Maintain as-is business understanding and support architecture capability establishment.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Traceability

Stakeholder management

Challenge the status quo

Large-scale change projects

Agile & Waterfall

External supplier experience

Multi-system environment

Job description

Bettys & Taylors Group in Harrogate is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Functional Architecture Team on a fixed-term contract to October 2026. Based at Plumpton Park, you will translate business change objectives into clear functional requirements for system and non-system work.

You will ensure traceability through testing, training and change lifecycle, and collaborate with SMEs and project teams to define scope, estimate effort, and sustain effective BAU support across multiple brands