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Business Analyst (Manufacturing / Automotive)
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- Greater Manchester
- Contract
- Full Time
- £200,750 - £200,750 Per Day
Job Description
Overview
We are looking for a Business Analyst to lead analysis on complex, high-impact change initiatives within IT Delivery. The role goes beyond traditional requirements gathering with the successful candidate needing to act as a trusted advisor, ensuring business needs are clearly defined, solutions are value-driven, and outcomes are successfully realised.
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end business analysis across complex initiatives (from discovery through to delivery and benefits realisation)
Elicit, analyse and manage high-quality requirements, ensuring they are traceable to business outcomes
Translate business problems into clear, structured insights and actionable solutions
Support business case development, including benefit definition and impact assessment
Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
Validate solution designs and ensure alignment to business needs and expected outcomes
Lead and coordinate analysis activities, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality expectations
Experience & Skills Required
Core Business Analysis Expertise
Extensive experience delivering business analysis in complex IT change environments
Strong skills in requirements engineering, process modelling, data analysis, and solution evaluation
Proven ability to manage requirements across multiple stakeholders and initiatives
Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery models
Ability to apply systems thinking to understand upstream and downstream impacts across processes, applications, data, suppliers, operational teams and business outcomes
Experience defining and assuring non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, security, resilience, auditability, scalability, service continuity, supportability and operational readiness
Confident creating user stories and acceptance criteria, including clear Given / When / Then acceptance criteria in GHERKIN format to support development, testing and traceability
Demonstrated experience leading analysis on large or complex initiatives
Holds a recognised Business Analysis qualification from BCS or IIBA above entry / foundation level, demonstrating a developed understanding of professional BA practice, techniques and standards
Commercial & Value Focus
Ability to link requirements and solutions to measurable business value and benefits
Experience contributing to business cases, cost/benefit analysis, and impact assessment
Strong focus on outcomes rather than outputs, ensuring delivery of tangible business benefits
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Advanced stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
Comfortable challenging assumptions and shaping direction with senior stakeholders
Strong workshop facilitation and collaboration skills
Pro-active communicator who can manage upwards, escalate clearly, surface risks early, and give senior stakeholders confidence through concise, outcome-focused updates
Able to manage business stakeholders effectively, challenge appropriately, resolve ambiguity and drive alignment where priorities, requirements or solution expectations conflict
Delivery & Quality Mindset
Strong planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills across multiple workstreams
Able to plan and estimate business analysis work effectively, creating clear visibility of activities, assumptions, dependencies, risks, progress and forecast effort to support prioritisation, delivery confidence and upward management
Experience working within structured delivery environments with a focus on quality, traceability, and governance
Ability to ensure clear, consistent, and high-quality BA artefacts and outputs are produced
Experience working with third-party suppliers, delivery partners and systems integrators, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, supplier outputs are validated, and business outcomes remain protected
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Differentiating Skills
Experience working within manufacturing, automotive or other complex operational environments, particularly where IT change affects physical operations, production processes, supply chain, engineering or customer-facing capabilities
Strong understanding of cloud, infrastructure, integration and enterprise systems landscapes, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business impacts, dependencies and decisions
Exposure to complex IT change and digital transformation, including multi-system change, legacy modernisation, new capability introduction, process digitisation, integration impacts and business readiness
Strong data literacy and analytical thinking
Awareness or usage of AI tools to support analysis and documentation
Experience with customer journey mapping and change impact assessment
Behavioural Profile (What Success Looks Like)
The successful candidate will:
Act as a trusted advisor, not just a documenter
Demonstrate curiosity and constructive challenge
Be collaborative, sharing knowledge and supporting others
Take ownership and accountability for outcomes
Drive continuous improvement in their own ways of working
Communicate clearly and build strong stakeholder relationships
These behaviours align to company’s goal of building a high-performing Business Analysis community focused on quality, consistency, and value delivery
Summary
We are seeking experienced outcome-focused Business Analysts who can operate at scale and complexity, influence senior stakeholders, and play a key role in shaping delivery
Excellent package & opportunity. Call Rachel NOW or apply online with CV Library
We are looking for a Business Analyst to lead analysis on complex, high-impact change initiatives within IT Delivery. The role goes beyond traditional requirements gathering with the successful candidate needing to act as a trusted advisor, ensuring business needs are clearly defined, solutions are value-driven, and outcomes are successfully realised.
Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end business analysis across complex initiatives (from discovery through to delivery and benefits realisation)
Elicit, analyse and manage high-quality requirements, ensuring they are traceable to business outcomes
Translate business problems into clear, structured insights and actionable solutions
Support business case development, including benefit definition and impact assessment
Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
Validate solution designs and ensure alignment to business needs and expected outcomes
Lead and coordinate analysis activities, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality expectations
Experience & Skills Required
Core Business Analysis Expertise
Extensive experience delivering business analysis in complex IT change environments
Strong skills in requirements engineering, process modelling, data analysis, and solution evaluation
Proven ability to manage requirements across multiple stakeholders and initiatives
Experience working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery models
Ability to apply systems thinking to understand upstream and downstream impacts across processes, applications, data, suppliers, operational teams and business outcomes
Experience defining and assuring non-functional requirements, including availability, performance, security, resilience, auditability, scalability, service continuity, supportability and operational readiness
Confident creating user stories and acceptance criteria, including clear Given / When / Then acceptance criteria in GHERKIN format to support development, testing and traceability
Demonstrated experience leading analysis on large or complex initiatives
Holds a recognised Business Analysis qualification from BCS or IIBA above entry / foundation level, demonstrating a developed understanding of professional BA practice, techniques and standards
Commercial & Value Focus
Ability to link requirements and solutions to measurable business value and benefits
Experience contributing to business cases, cost/benefit analysis, and impact assessment
Strong focus on outcomes rather than outputs, ensuring delivery of tangible business benefits
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Advanced stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority
Comfortable challenging assumptions and shaping direction with senior stakeholders
Strong workshop facilitation and collaboration skills
Pro-active communicator who can manage upwards, escalate clearly, surface risks early, and give senior stakeholders confidence through concise, outcome-focused updates
Able to manage business stakeholders effectively, challenge appropriately, resolve ambiguity and drive alignment where priorities, requirements or solution expectations conflict
Delivery & Quality Mindset
Strong planning, organisation, and prioritisation skills across multiple workstreams
Able to plan and estimate business analysis work effectively, creating clear visibility of activities, assumptions, dependencies, risks, progress and forecast effort to support prioritisation, delivery confidence and upward management
Experience working within structured delivery environments with a focus on quality, traceability, and governance
Ability to ensure clear, consistent, and high-quality BA artefacts and outputs are produced
Experience working with third-party suppliers, delivery partners and systems integrators, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, supplier outputs are validated, and business outcomes remain protected
·
Differentiating Skills
Experience working within manufacturing, automotive or other complex operational environments, particularly where IT change affects physical operations, production processes, supply chain, engineering or customer-facing capabilities
Strong understanding of cloud, infrastructure, integration and enterprise systems landscapes, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear business impacts, dependencies and decisions
Exposure to complex IT change and digital transformation, including multi-system change, legacy modernisation, new capability introduction, process digitisation, integration impacts and business readiness
Strong data literacy and analytical thinking
Awareness or usage of AI tools to support analysis and documentation
Experience with customer journey mapping and change impact assessment
Behavioural Profile (What Success Looks Like)
The successful candidate will:
Act as a trusted advisor, not just a documenter
Demonstrate curiosity and constructive challenge
Be collaborative, sharing knowledge and supporting others
Take ownership and accountability for outcomes
Drive continuous improvement in their own ways of working
Communicate clearly and build strong stakeholder relationships
These behaviours align to company’s goal of building a high-performing Business Analysis community focused on quality, consistency, and value delivery
Summary
We are seeking experienced outcome-focused Business Analysts who can operate at scale and complexity, influence senior stakeholders, and play a key role in shaping delivery
Excellent package & opportunity. Call Rachel NOW or apply online with CV Library