Business Analyst (Manufacturing / Automotive)

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• 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
• A recognised Business Analysis qualification from BCS or IIBA above entry or foundation level
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Experience working within manufacturing, automotive or other complex operational environments 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

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

Technologies:

• AI
• Cloud
• Support
• Security

More:

We are seeking an experienced, outcome-focused Business Analyst to lead analysis on complex, high-impact change initiatives within IT Delivery. We want someone who can act as a trusted advisor, shape delivery at scale and complexity, and help ensure business needs are clearly defined, solutions are value-driven, and outcomes are successfully realised. We offer an excellent package and opportunity, and we are building a high-performing Business Analysis community focused on quality, consistency, and value delivery.

last updated 30 week of 2026