Business Analyst

5 months ago

Bury, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

As a Business Analyst within the Group Transformation team, you will be working on complex and high priority initiatives across JD Group to support change delivery and unlock the JD strategy. You will be responsible for assessing business impact, defining business requirements, confidently contributing to the design of solutions, and proactively assisting in business related initiatives in an exciting, fast paced multi-fascia environment.

As part of your role, you will work closely with business stakeholders, Project Managers, Developers, Architects, Suppliers, Testers, and Product team members. Whilst you will not be responsible directly for the BA team, you will be a key member in the BA community where you will educate, promote best practice, and assist the team to perform optimally.

Quality and agility will be at the heart of everything you do, driving improvements that help us deliver quicker to market whilst giving our customers the best possible experience. We are looking for someone passionate about business analysis, delivering great results and their own personal development. In return, you will receive the support, training, and development to further your career.

·Job Title – Business Analyst

·Location – Bury, BL9 8RR

·Working rota – Monday to Friday

·Working hours – 40 hours

What You'll Be Doing: 

Ensure new initiatives are understood and the wider impact is known to the business via our business impact assessment process. Work with the business lead and finance department to flesh out the benefits of Driving and challenging the figures presented, pushing for further accuracy and quality of data. Setup, prepare and lead requirements workshops with all stakeholder groups identified for the initiative whilst building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the Lead the gathering and prioritising of business requirements with supporting Validate requirements are in line with objectives and scope, identifying and managing Comfortable working in an agile or waterfall environment and able to articulate the pros and cons of each. Strong process mapping skills, with the ability to also upskill the wider BA team. Assisting business analysis and group transformation process Proactively pushing, creating, and challenging improvements, driving engagement with the function. Aid the coaching and mentoring of the BA team, continually look for ways to improve working practices and the overall BA service. Providing high quality peer reviews and feedback on BA deliverables. Ensuring improvements are made and the BA understands why they are required. Take responsibility for your personal development, including working with your manager to set objectives and milestones and identify your training needs. Engage in promoting new ways of working and supporting technologies that will assist the team to become more efficient and deliver a higher quality of business analysis. From time to time carry out other duties within the scope of the role, such as training and user acceptance testing.

What We're Looking For:

Strong business analysis experience gained in ecommerce, retail or supply chain environments is highly advantageous. Strong facilitation and influencing Confidence to question stakeholders and identify underlying Experienced in establishing relationships, analysing perspectives, and managing stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds; adapting stakeholder engagement style to meet the needs of different Pragmatic self-starter able to work with little Thrives in a fast-paced environment and proactively plans/manages time Used to leading and supporting the capture, validation, and analysis of functional and technical Experience in an Agile Scrum environment, able to prioritise backlogs, refine requirements, facilitate estimation sessions, and ensure value is being delivered. Exposure to the full software development life cycle. Diligent, focused, and dependable, able to build strong relationships based on

Desirable Skills/Experience:

Certification in Agile such as Certified Business Analyst/Product Owner/Scrum Professional certification such as the BCS International Diploma in Business Experience in coaching and mentoring Business Analysts and BA teams in best practice approaches and improving team performance. Leadership skills, can motivate, feedback and Adapting communication styles as appropriate. Proficient in mapping Experience working with retail/ecommerce/supply chain teams such as merchandising, marketing, finance, loss control, UX, design, operations, tax, data protection, analytics, customer care, customer acquisition and retention.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

Incremental Holiday Allowance Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme Discounted Gym membership Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

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