Business Systems Analyst

Programme: LCST (Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation)

Location: Bristol

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Role Overview:

Leidos is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Business Analyst to support Programme Execution within the Logistics, Commodities and Services Transformation (LCST) programme. The successful applicant will play a crucial role in providing and curating knowledge, information and data insights to support programme delivery, thus ensuring excellence in programme execution within the Logistics and Mission Support (LMS) division. You will support the analysis of complex business problems, to be solved with processes and applications.

You will be self-motivated and able to work autonomously and within a team to achieve day-to-day objectives, aligning to our Business Analytics Framework, supporting programme delivery against project milestones and appropriate application of program execution governance. You must be an effective communicator, tenacious and motivated find information and form knowledge, and comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues.
 

Main Duties:

• Work within a multidisciplinary Business Analytics capability in support of Project and Change delivery, to ensure that customer and operational needs are clearly identified, analysed and communicated across the stakeholder community
• Evaluate, analyse and support business change impacts and constantly drive to ensure the product evolves towards the service vision and business architecture strategy
• Elicit, analyse, define and document business requirements and transform such artefacts into developer-consumed forms
• Establish a baseline understanding of customer/business functions, stakeholders, operations, components and procedures
• Undertake and support inspections of functions, departments and operations with analysis of current and planned future operating models, operating frameworks and business models
• Work closely with the Product Owner to understand the business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensure proposed solutions and prototypes are produced in line with these
• Undertake data analytical activity, as well as define and support information asset management/stewardship processes and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with the Functional and Product Owners to understand the business drivers and desired outcomes, and ensure proposed solutions and prototypes are produced and tested in line with these
• Support Principal BA/Business Analysis Lead and Senior Business Analyst roles in further development of the BA capability
   

Skills Required:

• Demonstrable experience in Requirements Elicitation & Analytics, as well as the ability to work with Subject Matter Experts and a wide array of stakeholders to capture business requirements alongside Project/Programme Delivery and Engineering disciplines
• Ability to identify and present actionable research insights to business stakeholders
• Experience of working in multiple work streams in complex change and development environments
• The ability to facilitate effective business and business process design workshops and Continuous Improvement initiatives, to define detailed, complete and agreed structures and processes
• Communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Business process modelling (with ability to use a conventional modelling notation, e.g. UML)
   

Skills Desired:

• Lean Six Sigma experience
• Agile/SAFe experience
• APM PFQ
• ITIL 4 exposure
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architecture
• Working with large-scale and complex integration programmes
• Working with 3rd party suppliers
   

Clearance Requirements:

• Pre-screening to Start BPSS
• Clearance for Role SC

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

• Dynamic Working 

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD’s materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs).

Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK’s defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.