Business Analyst

We are currently recruiting for a Business Analyst to support a major programme of work for a leading utility organisation based in Solihull to play a key role in shaping the programme, working closely with business stakeholders, technical teams and third-party suppliers to understand requirements, assess current operating processes and prepare the organisation for future procurement and delivery activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the definition, capture and documentation of business requirements, ensuring requirements are clear, structured and aligned with programme objectives.
• Develop detailed business and functional use cases, translating stakeholder needs into actionable requirements.
• Undertake business process analysis, documenting current-state processes and helping define future-state processes and improvements.
• Assess existing operating models, identifying gaps, dependencies, risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to gather, challenge and validate requirements.
• Work with business, technology and programme stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and traceable throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support the development of procurement-ready documentation, ensuring business and functional requirements are sufficiently detailed for supplier engagement and evaluation.
• Contribute to options assessments, gap analysis and recommendations around future solutions and operating models.
• Act as a bridge between operational stakeholders, technical teams, procurement and external suppliers.

Experience Required

• Strong experience working as a Business Analyst on complex transformation, technology or operational change programmes.
• Excellent requirements gathering, analysis and documentation skills.
• Proven experience developing use cases, process maps and business requirements.
• Experience carrying out current-state / future-state business process analysis.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
• Experience assessing or helping design target operating models.
• Exposure to procurement, tender preparation, supplier selection or procurement readiness would be highly advantageous.
• Previous experience within the utilities, energy, infrastructure or regulated sectors would be particularly beneficial.