We are looking for another Business Analyst to join our busy Digital & Business Systems Product Delivery Team based in Howden, Yorkshire. As a FTSE 100 business with an ambitious growth agenda, this role offers an excellent opportunity to work closely with the Digital & Business Systems team on a broad range of manufacturing, digital or trade projects
The team work in the office 4 days a week with 1 day from home.
What will I be doing as a Business Analyst?
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and understand their needs.
- Run workshops to gather requirements and identify risks and dependencies.
- Create process maps (current and future) and documentation to support changes.
- Document requirements in tools like Azure DevOps and turn them into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Work with architects to define non-functional requirements and project metrics.
- Refine user stories with product, development, testing, and architecture teams to prepare for upcoming sprints.
- Validate requirements during delivery to ensure they meet business needs and acceptance criteria is met.
- Actively participate in team meetings, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Act as a bridge between business and technical teams for clear communication.
- Maintain strong stakeholder relationships and provide regular updates.
- Promote and lead best practices in Business Analysis across the team and department.
What do we need from you
- Minimum of 3 years Business Analysis experience is desirable.
- Proficiency with BA tools and techniques, i.e. Visio, Lucid chart, Azure DevOps, Jira, facilitation and elicitation.
- Experience managing complex business solutions.
- Understanding of both Agile and Waterfall principles, and when to use the right methodology.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experienced in meeting facilitation, with the ability to run successful sessions with various groups of people to ensure a successful outcome
- Prioritise effectively and be comfortable taking ownership of issues and facilitating their resolution.
- Ability to challenge technology and business process, when necessary, to ensure the right solution delivers the optimal business process.
- Qualification in Business Analysis is desirable i.e. Requirements Engineering, Business Process Modelling, Agile Business Analysis.
- Experience in the Trade, Retail and Digital sectors desirable.
What we can offer you
- Competitive salary and annual company bonus
- Excellent pension scheme (company contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays with the option to buy additional days
- Staff Discount
- Free lunch onsite
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Exceptional Reward and Recognition events
About Howdens:
Howdens Joinery is the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 950 depots throughout the UK and Europe – making us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals. Last year our sales reached circa 2.4bn, and we have an ambitious growth agenda.
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