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Senior Business Analyst - FTC

Employer
Burberry
Location
Leeds, United Kingdom
Closing date
1 Jun 2021

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Function
Technology
Level
Senior Manager

Job Details

INTRODUCTION

Founded in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, Burberry is a global luxury brand with a distinctly British attitude. We are a global business with an extensive network of both owned and franchised stores across EMEIA, Asia Pacific and Americas. We are digital pioneers, and innovative technology underpins every aspect of our business, from product design to distribution and marketing. We believe that modern luxury means being socially and environmentally responsible; this mindset is core to our business and key to our long-term success.

JOB PURPOSE

This is an initial 2 year Fixed Term Contract, we are looking for a Senior Business Analyst who will lead the collection, analysis and prioritisation of requirements for change within new Retail IT projects; focusing on meeting the goals and objectives of the business. The Senior Business Analyst will primarily collaborate with designated business functions, Project Managers, Solution Architects and Solution Providers.

The Retail IT team has a global responsibility to support colleagues across the Burberry retail estate. With a focus on people and process requirements to deliver excellent instore experiences for customers and associates alike through the innovation of retail journeys that are underpinned by quality IT applications. Because of this, the successful colleague will need to travel to work closely with Retail colleagues, at the London headquarters with the potential for travel to stores /sites in the UK and beyond.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Recognise problem statements to direct the definition of clear business need to analyse the impact of required change across people, process and technology at an enterprise level (i.e. cross functional end to end).
  • Provides strategic business analysis to scope new Project and Small Change Initiatives within the Retail environment, ensuring the impact and scale of the change are understood, outcomes are clear and aligned to the Retail roadmap.
  • Develop relationships with business functions to form an understanding of the retail operations to assess identified problem statements and enable informed decisions on required changes and influence the approach to address them.
  • Switch seamlessly from strategic thinking and fine detail to ensure rigor of business analysis approach and quality of outputs.
  • Lead the collection and prioritisation of project specific business requirements and ensure they are relayed to the architecture and delivery teams to develop cost estimates.
  • Run workshops, gather business requirements and define processes.
  • Ensure that the business change aspects are considered, understood and planned for.
  • Liaise closely with Project Managers to define and estimate Business Analysis activity required to achieve agreed outcomes.
  • Collaborate with the business and project team throughout the solution build to ensure alignment with defined business requirements.
  • Follow defined Waterfall/Agile methodology and deliverables, adapting to meet the needs of the initiative.
  • Lead and direct resources to be more agile underpinned by a broad variety of tools and techniques.
  • Contribute to the development of the organisations business analysis capability by building relationships across the Business Analysis community to share best practice and collaborate on practice improvement opportunities.
  • Coach and mentor Business Analysts.
  • Lead the continual review and identification of changes to current ways of working and methods that enhance the business analysis activity and wider change delivery.
  • Facilitate the acceptance of functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  • Support Business Change activities required to successfully embed the change.
  • Adhere to project timelines as defined by the Project Manager.


PERSONAL PROFILE

  • Extensive experience in business analysis working on large and complex enterprise level change projects
  • Experience in a Retail environment is desirable.
  • Business Function - Retail, POS, Payments.
  • Methodology - Agile or Waterfall.
  • Ability to decompose a challenge into smaller parts and address the parts in a disciplined manner, individually or as a part of a team
  • Ability to colloborate with wider IT and business skillsets to assess problems and adapt approaches to meet objectives
  • Ability and presence to collaborate with the leaders of business functions
  • Ability to translate business functional language into requirements for services
  • Ability to explain an approach and expectations of Business Analysi activity to business stakeholders and colloborators


CONNECTING WITH OTHER

Reporting to:

Lead Business Analyst, Retail Systems

Working with:

Project Managers
Solution Architects
Business functional stakeholders
Other IT towers
3rd Party solution delivery partners

FOOTER

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

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