Senior Business Analyst - Group Transformation
Bury, England, United Kingdom
* Job Title – Senior Business Analyst - Group Transformation
* Location – BL9 8RR
* Working rota – Monday - Friday
* Working hours – 40 hours
* Working model – 4 days in the office / 1 day working from home
Role overview:
As a Senior Business Analyst within the Group Transformation team, you will be working on complex and high priority initiatives across the JD Group to support change delivery and unlock the JD strategy. BAs within Group Transformation will work on cross-functional Programmes or be embedded within an Agile Product squad.
As part of your role, you will work closely with business stakeholders, Project Managers, Developers, Architects, Suppliers, Testers, and Product team members. You will be a key member of the BA community where you will promote best practice and help the team to evolve and grow.
Quality and agility will be at the heart of everything you do, driving improvements that help us deliver quicker to market whilst giving our customers the best possible experience. We are looking for someone passionate about business analysis, delivering great results and their own personal development. In return, you will receive support, training and development to further your career.
Responsibilities:
* Work with the business lead and finance department to create business cases, focusing on effort vs value to inform and influence executive decisions effectively.
* Able to lead and design workshops to achieve specific outcomes.
* Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business. Able to engage senior stakeholders, using the appropriate frequency and level of detail.
* Lead the elicitation and documentation of requirements in complex scenarios, adapting BA techniques as needed.
* Confidently manage prioritisation in complex scenarios, ensuring alignment with business goals.
* Work with the Product Manager on both Quarterly and Horizon Planning, shaping the direction for your Squad.
* Play a leading role in a Product Squad and begin to input at Tribe level, supporting the definition of Initiatives and Ideas that tie back to Strategic Themes.
* Own and drive forward the requirements during Agile delivery, creating, estimating and prioritising user stories, maintaining the backlog with a focus on delivering Value to the business.
* Skilfully develop and adapt comprehensive As-Is and To-Be models, effectively identifying improvement areas and supporting strategic process changes.
* Positively implement robust requirements management and traceability practices.
* Support the coaching and mentoring of the BA team, continually look for ways to improve working practices and the overall BA service.
* Provide high quality peer reviews and feedback on BA deliverables, fostering a culture of quality by consistently identifying areas for improvement and ensuring high standards are met.
* Take responsibility for your personal development, including working with your manager to set objectives and milestones and identify your training needs.
* Engage in promoting new ways of working and supporting technologies that will assist the team to become more efficient and deliver a higher quality of business analysis.
Skills and Experience:
* Extensive business analysis experience gained in ecommerce, retail or supply chain environments is highly advantageous.
* Outstanding facilitation and influencing skills.
* Confidence to question stakeholders and identify underlying requirements.
* Proficient in establishing relationships, analysing differing perspectives and managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds; adapting stakeholder engagement style to meet the needs of different audiences.
* Good leadership skills, can motivate, feedback and coach. Adapting communication style as appropriate.
* Thrives in a fast-paced environment and proactively plans/manages time accordingly.
* Used to leading the capture, validation and analysis of functional and technical requirements.
* Experience in Waterfall and an Agile Scrum and/or Product Tribe environment.
* Diligent, focused and dependable, able to build strong relationships based on integrity.
* Track record of coaching and mentoring Business Analysts and BA teams in best practice approaches and improving team performance.
* Certification in Agile such as Certified Agile BA/Product Owner/Scrum Master.
* Professional certification such as the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.
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