Business Analyst (Delivery-Focused / Clarity-in-Complexity)
Start 1st of June - 4 month initial contract
Up to 600 per day - Inside IR35 - Paid through an umbrella
Travel to site - Stevenage as required - no more than twice a week
Role Purpose:
The Business Analyst is responsible for bringing clarity, cohesion, and structure to complex delivery environments, ensuring that business intent is accurately translated into actionable, well-defined requirements that enable effective delivery.
Operating within ambiguous and fast-moving programmes, the Business Analyst plays a critical role in turning fragmented inputs into clear requirements, enabling informed decisions, and ensuring delivery remains aligned, prioritised, and executable.
The role focuses on supporting delivery at pace rather than shaping upstream strategy or value definition.
Key Accountabilities:
Clarity & Requirement Shaping
Translate fragmented business needs into clear requirements and structured user stories
Define acceptance criteria aligned to business intent
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and assumptions
Maintain a single, trusted view of requirements
Backlog & Scope Management
Support definition and maintenance of epics, features, and user stories
Ensure backlog items are well-defined, prioritised, and ready for delivery
Work with Product and Delivery leads to refine and sequence scope
Manage dependencies, constraints, and scope boundaries
Stakeholder Coordination & Alignment
Act as a coordination point across business, product, and technology teams
Facilitate workshops to align understanding and resolve ambiguity
Ensure shared understanding across stakeholders
Decision Support & Structured Thinking
Break down complex problems into structured components
Present options with trade-offs and implications
Bring discipline to assumptions, risks, and dependencies
Delivery Support
Support delivery teams in clarifying requirements during build
Participate in backlog refinement and delivery ceremonies
Ensure alignment between business intent and delivered outputs
Traceability & Quality
Ensure requirements are traceable to business intent
Maintain consistency across artefacts and changes
Support validation through clear acceptance criteria
Core Skills & Capabilities
Strong analytical and structuring capability
Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments
Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
Clear written and verbal communication
Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
Understanding of digital, data, and platform environments
Experience & Background
Experience in a Business Analyst or similar delivery-focused role - Utilities/Telecoms/Large Capital/Constuction
Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
Experience supporting programme or transformation delivery
Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems
What This Role Is and Is Not
This role is:
A delivery enabler
A clarity driver in complex environments
A structured thinker who enables progress
This role is not:
Not responsible for defining strategic value propositions
Not a Product Owner or Product Manager
Not responsible for solution design
Not a documentation-only role
Please note you will receive an automated response advising you that we have received your CV.
Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 18 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting. Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.
We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.