Technology & Data Business Analyst

We are looking for a Technology & Data Business Analyst to join us on the HARP Project, based in Manchester.

• Business analysis or related certification.
• Significant business analysis experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Self-Starter, goal oriented, able to plan and prioritise workloads and hit the ground running.
• Experience of working with BAs and procurement teams, requirements analysis and process improvement.
• Proficient in Project Management, Agile, Risk management.
• Awareness of ISO27001 and Data Protection Act.
• AI platforms and workflows (desired, not required).

Business requirements management

• Lead project and division level business requirements activities, proactively identifying gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process optimisation.
• Facilitate and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels, fostering informed debate, alignment, and data-driven decision-making.
• Ensuring clarity of objectives and manage competing priorities.
• Translate complex business challenges into scalable, future-proof solutions.
• Create compelling business cases to demonstrate value.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor and senior liaison between business owners, stakeholders, and technology teams, helping stakeholders to come to agreement over competing demands.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business users, subject matter experts (SMEs), delivery teams, and suppliers.

Delivery

• Working closely with cross-functional and software deployment teams to ensure successful delivery.
• Own end-to-end solution validation, leading UAT strategy, risk identification, and quality assurance to ensure outputs exceed business expectations.
• Drive the development of structured delivery roadmaps and implementation plans in partnership with business leaders, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Business Improvement

• Champion continuous improvement initiatives by analysing workflows, identifying bottlenecks, and recommending automation or process redesign opportunities, mapping as-is and to-be processes.
• Critically assess existing documentation, systems, and interfaces to drive standardisation, improved governance, and enhanced operational efficiency.
• Lead the design and enhancement of executive dashboards and reporting frameworks to support performance monitoring and strategic insights.
• Establish reporting standards and act as the escalation point for complex analytical requests, ensuring timely and high-quality insight delivery.
• Support adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.

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