Analysis Manager

Job Title: Analysis Manager - (Contract)

Job Description

This contract role focuses on shaping and scoping early-stage work for a major programme that is delivering a new pensions platform for workplace customers. Operating at the very front of the delivery life cycle, you translate ideas and propositions into clearly defined epics and features, ensuring delivery squads receive a continuous pipeline of well-structured work. You work in a fast-paced, high-volume, squad-based Agile environment, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams to maintain momentum and improve member outcomes through modern, scalable technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the upfront shaping and scoping of work, taking concepts and early-stage propositions through to well-defined epics and features.
• Work at the front of the delivery life cycle, focusing exclusively on upstream analysis rather than detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Act as a key bridge between business stakeholders and delivery squads, ensuring a constant flow of clear, structured work into teams.
• Collaborate with multiple Agile squads in a high-volume delivery environment to align scope, priorities, and dependencies.
• Facilitate workshops and requirement elicitation sessions to clarify objectives, scope, and desired outcomes.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous situations, defining and refining early-stage propositions into deliverable work packages.
• Assess options, risks, costs, and benefits to support informed decision-making and prioritisation across the programme.
• Align initiatives across a complex programme landscape, ensuring that work items connect to overall strategy and roadmap.
• Simplify complex business and technical concepts into clear, concise artefacts that are easily understood by stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders, managing expectations and building consensus around scope and direction.
• Maintain high delivery momentum by proactively identifying and shaping future work to keep the pipeline healthy and well defined.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across business and technology, demonstrating a positive, adaptable, and solution-focused approach.
• Operate without direct line management responsibilities while providing leadership and guidance in analysis best practice.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in upfront shaping and scoping work from initial concept through to epics and features.
• Strong background as a senior -level Business Analyst or Analysis Manager, rather than in a junior business analysis role.
• Demonstrable experience operating in ambiguous environments and defining early-stage propositions into actionable work.
• Extensive Agile delivery experience, particularly in squad-based environments.
• experience working across multiple squads in a high-volume delivery context.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including regular interaction with senior stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation skills, including leading workshops and conducting structured requirement elicitation.
• Ability to link, align, and sequence work across a complex programme landscape.
• experience assessing options, risks, costs, and benefits to support strategic decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and present ideas clearly.
• Proactive, self-sufficient working style, with the ability to hit the ground running in a fast-paced setting.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• experience in Financial Services, ideally within workplace pensions or similar domains.
• Ability to think strategically and connect programme-level objectives to detailed delivery.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, high-demand environments with competing priorities.
• Collaborative and adaptable mindset, with a positive approach to change and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with Agile artefacts such as epics and features and how they flow through delivery squads.

Why Work Here?

You join a high-profile strategic programme where your analysis expertise directly shapes a modern pensions platform and improves outcomes for workplace members. The environment values proactive, self-sufficient professionals who enjoy operating at pace and influencing direction at an early stage. You work closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional squads, gaining exposure to complex programme delivery and the opportunity to connect strategy with real-world implementation in an Agile setting.

Work Environment

The role is based in Manchester within a high-volume, fast-paced programme environment focused on modern, scalable technology for pensions. You work in an Agile, squad-based structure, collaborating closely with multiple teams and stakeholders across business and technology. The culture encourages proactive problem-solving, open communication, and close collaboration, with an emphasis on workshops and interactive sessions to shape and define work. The position is offered as an initial 12-month contract with potential for extension, providing continuity within a dynamic and evolving programme landscape. Dress code and on-site arrangements follow standard professional office norms as defined by the organisation

Job Title: Analysis Manager

Location: Manchester, UK

Job Type: Contract

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