The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: IT Business Analyst (12 month FTC)
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
Do you excel in stakeholder and project management? Are you eager for a new opportunity within a dynamic and professional project services team? Do you thrive on delivering impactful business change projects with a blend of creativity and pragmatic thinking? If so, we want to hear from you!
Takes a leading role with the responsibility for investigating and analysing business situations, identifying and evaluating options for improving business systems, elaborating and defining requirements, and ensuring the effective implementation and use of information systems in line with the needs of the business and consistent with the business Target Operating Model and IT architecture and strategy.
This position is a 12 month fixed term contract, with the potential for extension.
What you'll be doing:
* Advise, define, document and effectively capture the operating requirements necessary to support the business.
* Lead the business requirements, system design and testing process for major projects including multi-system / multi-site enterprise systems. This is expected to include (but not limited to): ERP, MES / Process Control, WMS, HR, Payroll and Formulation systems.
* Act as the interface between the business and IT teams to define the system requirements necessary for supporting the Operating Model.
* Create process models, specifications, diagrams, charts and other artifacts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
* Lead the delivery of projects during testing. Act as a problem solver “all rounder”, defining the process and analysis required to derive the solution and be capable of managing all aspects of this.
* Ensure solutions are aligned with IT strategy and consistent in their application.
* Lead the development of the Business Analysis role including establishing standards, practices and procedures following professionally recognised guidelines.
What you'll bring:
* Excellent understanding of business analysis methods and their application.
* Experience of major systems specification and implementation, e.g. ERP, MES, Process Control etc.
* Experience of leading the analysis, design and testing stages of IT projects.
* Experience outside of IT, preferably with exposure to commercial functions.
* Variety of industry experience either directly or in consulting capacity (process/food manufacturing experience will be advantageous).
* Knowledge of ERP systems and associated business processes, ideally with experience of Microsoft D365FO or Dynamics 2012.
* Experience of supporting the delivery of IT projects.
Location
Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture.
About The Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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