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.