Senior Business Analyst

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Why we embarked on Making Business Easier?

Over time processes have become increasingly complex, increasing both the risk and cost they pose, whilst restricting our agility. At the same time, our customers and the market expect more from us than ever before. Making Business Easier forms a fundamental foundation for our commercial and operational excellence agendas, whilst supporting managing our cost base effectively in the future.

The MBE Programme will streamline and simplify core processes, provide easier access to quality business data and will invest in the right technology to enable these processes.

Why is this exciting for your career as a Business Analyst?

The MBE Programme presents a huge opportunity for colleagues across the technology function to play a central role in the design, shape, delivery and execution of an enterprise wide digital transformation programme. The complexity of the initiative, within a FTSE 250 business, will allow for large-scale problem solving, group wide impact assessment and supporting the delivery of an enablement project to future proof the business. You will have the opportunity to work with colleagues across the business and bring a best practice approach to the function. Designing and shaping the solution and methodologies utilising your experience and expertise gives a platform for success and team ship building as Greencore, build, mature, strengthen and bolster their Technology department.

What you'll be doing:

You will lead the investigation, analysis, review and documentation of specific business requirements to propose improvements in people and system processes and the information they provide to drive business value. As a Senior Business Analyst you will need to coordinate this process, without direct guidance from others, you will work under your own initiative. In this role you will:

• Understand and improve the inter-relationships between business processes, people procedures, systems and their associated information flows
• Assist in defining, planning and preparing Project Capital requests, delivery plans and associated business benefits and new ways of working
• Accurately identifies and specifies business solutions that satisfy business requirements and improve business performance
• Build relationships, to influence and work collaboratively across IT and business teams to ensure a clear understanding of priority detailed requirements that need to be delivered and supported in ongoing live service
• Ensure user testing & training requirements are understood, documented, and supports user adoption of new initiatives and ways of working
• Manage and lead small to medium sized business process and solution related projects
• Meticulously follows BA standards and processes, including the documentation of requirements and tests. Actively contributes to improving those standards and processes
• Supports the development of peers and junior colleagues within the BA community, sharing knowledge, experience and best practice to improve the overall quality of business analysis within Group IT

What we're looking for?

• Proven experience in business systems analysis, process engineering, process/organisational transformation and?playing a lead role in project delivery (including benefit and risk management)
• Able to demonstrate a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving. You will have excellent depth of experience within Business Analysis and you will be confident is sharing best practice ways of working.
• Strong attention to detail. You will have good?inter-personal skills and you will be confident in dealing with business team leads to influence?business change
• Good understanding of software testing, from planning, execution and tracking to ensure smooth validation?of business requirements largely ahead of UAT / Live running
• Strong understanding of IT applications and infrastructure, and a commitment to continuingly improving their?knowledge of this
• Ability to coach and mentor others
• Strong communicator & ability to solve problems

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Car Allowance
• Annual Target Bonus
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• PMI Cover
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.