Strategic Business Analyst – Transformation Programs (Hybrid)

Project People Limited; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Project People Limited is hiring a Senior Business Analyst for a 12-month contract in Reading with hybrid working. The role supports MBNL's Legal, Governance & Operational Excellence Directorate, translating complex business needs into clear requirements to enable strategic change programmes.

You will facilitate workshops, capture and manage requirements, create user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive delivery and measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis within operational, transformation, or programme environments.
• Strong requirements gathering and documentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex or ambiguous business needs into clear and actionable requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across multiple levels.
• Experience creating process flows, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse, and document clear business requirements aligned to strategic objectives.
• Investigate complex business challenges and translate them into practical solutions and requirements.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions to gather, validate, and refine requirements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for requirements management across programmes and initiatives.
• Ensure requirements remain aligned to business outcomes and agreed project scope.
• Develop user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, and supporting business analysis artefacts.
• Build and maintain current and future-state process flows and supporting documentation.
• Support solution testing and validation to ensure business requirements have been met.
• Assist with business case development, commercial evaluations, and supplier selection activities.
• Maintain process libraries and ensure analysis documentation remains accurate and up to date.
• Support prioritisation activities and provide insight into delivery planning and implementation impacts.
• Work closely with project, programme, commercial, and operational teams to support successful change delivery.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder management

Process documentation

Communication

Analytical thinking

User stories

Acceptance criteria

Education

Business Analysis certification

Job description

Project People Limited is hiring a Senior Business Analyst for a 12-month contract in Reading with hybrid working. The role supports MBNL's Legal, Governance & Operational Excellence Directorate, translating complex business needs into clear requirements to enable strategic change programmes.

You will facilitate workshops, capture and manage requirements, create user stories and acceptance criteria, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive delivery and measurable business outcomes.