Business Analyst (Manufacturing / Automotive)

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