* Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
* Location: BL9 8RR
* Working Rota: Monday - Friday
* Working Hours: 40 hours
* Working Model: Hybrid - 4 days in office and 1 day working from home
Role Overview:
As a Senior Business Analyst within the Group Transformation team, you will be working on large, complex and high priority initiatives across JD Group. You will be responsible for assessing business impact, defining business requirements, strongly contributing to the design of solutions, and leading in business-related initiatives in an exciting, fast-paced multi-fascia environment.
As part of your role, you will work closely with business stakeholders, Project Managers, Developers, Architects, Suppliers, and Testers to help JD Group implement the strategy. You will provide a focal point for the BA community where you will educate, share best practices, and coach the team to perform optimally. 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 the support, training and development to further your career.
Responsibilities:
* Using your extensive knowledge of the company and industry, ensure new initiatives are understood and the wider impact is known to the business via our business impact assessment process.
* Work with the business lead and finance department to flesh out the benefits of initiatives via our benefit case process.
* Setup, prepare and lead requirements workshops with all stakeholder groups identified for the initiative whilst building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the business.
* Lead the gathering and prioritising of business requirements with supporting documentation, such as business requirement documents and requirement lists.
* Validate requirements in line with objectives and scope, identifying and managing conflicts.
* Work in an agile or waterfall way depending on your project type, using your experience to adhere to the lifecycle and being proactive in BA actions.
* Process mapping the as-is and to-be for your initiatives at a proficient standard, with the ability to also upskill the wider BA team.
* Lead business analysis and group transformational process improvements, proactively pushing, creating and challenging improvements.
* Coach and mentor the BA team and continually look for ways to improve working practices and the overall BA service.
* Provide expert quality peer reviews and feedback on BA deliverables.
* Take responsibility for your personal development, including working with your manager to set objectives and milestones.
* Identify new ways of working and supporting technologies that will assist the team to become more efficient.
* From time to time carry out other duties within the scope of the role, such as training and user acceptance testing.
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 perspectives, and managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds.
* Good leadership skills, can motivate, feedback, and coach.
* Pragmatic self-starter able to work with little guidance.
* Thrives in a fast-paced environment and proactively plans/manages time accordingly.
* Experience in an Agile Scrum environment, writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
* Highly proficient at producing process maps and process flow models.
* Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Track record of coaching and mentoring Business Analysts and BA teams.
* A great team player who can work constructively with various stakeholders.
Desirable Skills/Experience:
* Certification in Agile such as Certified Business Analyst/Product Owner/Scrum Master.
* Professional certification such as the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
* Experience working with retail/ecommerce/supply chain teams.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues across 3,400 stores in over 30 markets worldwide.
Benefits:
* Incremental Holiday Allowance
* Staff Discount on qualifying purchases
* Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
* Discounted Gym membership
* Personal development opportunities
* Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications
Interested?
If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button. Due to the high volumes of applications, if you don't hear back within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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