Sanderson
Principal Business Analyst
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📍 Surrey
2 days per week
💰 Up to £90,000
📅 Permanent
Are you an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys shaping business strategy, leading teams, and delivering meaningful change?
We're partnering with a well-established organisation embarking on an exciting transformation journey, and they're looking for a Principal Business Analyst to lead their Business Analysis function.
This is an opportunity to combine strategic leadership with hands-on analysis, working across a varied portfolio of business and technology change initiatives while mentoring a team of Business Analysts.
The Role
As the Principal Business Analyst, you'll act as the link between the business and technology teams, ensuring change is aligned to strategic objectives and delivers real business value.
Working closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation, you'll influence decision-making, define analysis standards, and drive continuous improvement across the change function.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead Business Analysis across multiple complex change programmes.
- Manage, mentor and develop a team of Business Analysts.
- Build strong relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Facilitate workshops and gather, analyse and document business requirements.
- Produce business cases, process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Ensure requirements remain traceable throughout the project lifecycle.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, Architects, Developers and Testers to deliver successful outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes, systems and customer experience.
- Drive best practice, consistency and continuous improvement across the Business Analysis function.
- Support resource planning, recruitment and capability development within the BA team.
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What We're Looking For
We're keen to speak with experienced Business Analysis professionals who can demonstrate:
- Extensive Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments.
- Previous experience leading, mentoring or managing Business Analysts.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including Executive-level engagement.
- Experience delivering large-scale business and technology transformation programmes.
- Excellent requirements gathering, workshop facilitation and process mapping skills.
- Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
- A strategic mindset combined with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience developing Business Analysis standards, frameworks or best practice.
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Professional certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA or Agile qualifications would be advantageous but are not essential.
Why Apply?
This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation where Business Analysis is recognised as a key driver of successful transformation. You'll have the chance to shape the BA function, influence strategic decisions, lead a high-performing team, and make a genuine impact across the business.
If you're looking for your next leadership opportunity and enjoy delivering change that makes a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
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