Experience defining solutions within a technical development environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with engineers, international support teams, and subject matter experts.
Experience liaising with and managing internal and external stakeholders.
A highly organised, logical, and solutions-focused approach, with the ability to meet deadlines and prioritise competing activities.
Ability to work effectively with a geographically dispersed department and organisation, including hosting and participating in online calls and meetings.
Responsibilities
Gather, validate, and document business requirements using methods such as shop visits and document analysis; keep work documents detailed, traceable, and up to date.
Create and manage functional specifications, communicate them effectively, and identify and validate appropriate solutions and business direction aligned with goals.
Focus initially on stock and inventory tools across the business, including global requirements and rollout to new markets, product development and feature building, inventory management, and data centralisation.
Create, manage, and maintain detailed work tickets for the development team.
Work with key business stakeholders to determine requirements for changes involving legal, financial, technical, and operational processes.
Capture, analyse, and document requirements, then support their communication and delivery with relevant stakeholders.
Assess the impact of new features and products on business architecture across technology, business processes, business intelligence, and data/IT modelling.
Analyse, create, and communicate business strategy; perform cost-benefit analysis, including associated risks.
Understand business change needs for local and global systems, including software and hardware.
Identify efficiency opportunities across digital products, including where existing products, resources, and systems can be used.
Work closely with Producers and Programme Managers to identify risks and manage timelines.
Desired Qualifications
Experience with stock and inventory tools, global requirements and rollouts to new markets, product development and feature building, inventory management, or data centralisation is ideal; transferable knowledge is welcomed.
Contract: Full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract
Location: Poole (Hybrid – 3 days per week in-office)
Salary: £32,500 - £38,000
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The role We’re looking for a Business Analyst. This role is an exciting opportunity to use your analytical skills and experience to make a difference in the vast international digital tech products space.
Summary Gather, validate and document business requirements using various methods from shop visits to document analysis. You will be responsible for ensuring your work documents are sufficiently detailed, traceable, and kept up-to-date. From this, you will create and manage functional specifications and communicate them effectively to identify and validate appropriate solutions and business direction that align with goals.
Initially, this role will focus on our Stock and Inventory tools across the business including Global Requirements and rollout to new markets, Product development and feature building, Inventory management and data centralisation. Experience in these areas would be ideal but transferable knowledge is also welcomed.
Please note: We may close this vacancy early if we receive an overwhelming response or our business requirements change.
Create, manage and maintain detailed tickets of work for our development team
Work with key stakeholders across the business to determine the requirements needed for new changes in areas of legal, financial, technical and operational processes
Capture, analyse and document requirements, then support the communication and delivery with relevant stakeholders
Assess how new features and new products will impact the business architecture (across tech, business processing, business intelligence & data/IT modelling)
Analyse, create, and communicate a compelling business strategy. Perform cost-benefit analysis, including associated risks
Understand business change needs for local and global systems, including software & hardware
Identify efficiency actions across our Digital products to identify where we can utilise resources and systems already available in our product base
Work closely with Producers and Programme Managers to help identify risks and manage timelines.
Experience defining solutions within a technical development environment
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with engineers, international support teams, and subject matter experts
Experience liaising and managing internal and external stakeholders
A highly organised, logical, and solutions-focused approach to the work, with the ability to work to deadlines and prioritise competing activities
Able to work efficiently and effectively with a geographically-dispersed department and organisation, hosting and participating in online calls/meetings.
Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes or have experience across all those responsibilities.
As we said, we want you to bring your unique perspective to the role, and as such, a passion for what you do, a determined attitude and an ambition to grow the business are just as important as your experience.