Pets at Home Limited
Senior Business Analyst - Portfolio
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Senior Business Analyst (Portfolio)
Hybrid Working | Handforth Support Office & Home
Technology | Pets at Home
At Pets at Home, we're transforming the way we serve pets and the people who love them. As a Senior Business Analyst, you'll play a key role in shaping business change across our technology portfolio, helping us solve complex problems, deliver meaningful outcomes and create better experiences for customers, colleagues and pets. Based on
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys combining hands-on analysis with people leadership.
Reporting to the Principal Business Analyst, you'll lead a team of 4 Business Analysts, coaching and developing them while partnering with Product, Technology and business stakeholders to shape opportunities, influence decision-making and deliver strategic change. You'll work across a varied portfolio of initiatives, ensuring solutions are rooted in genuine business needs and aligned to our wider goals.
What you'll be doing
- Leading and developing a team of Business Analysts, fostering a culture of collaboration, curiosity and continuous improvement.
- Partnering with stakeholders across Product, Technology and Operations to understand challenges, identify opportunities and shape solutions.
- Facilitating workshops, gathering requirements and translating business needs into clear, actionable outcomes.
- Leading discovery activities, options analysis and business case development to support strategic decision-making.
- Ensuring initiatives remain aligned to business priorities, customer needs and expected benefits.
- Supporting delivery teams through analysis, refinement, testing and implementation.
- Championing Business Analysis best practice and helping to develop the wider BA community.
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What we're looking for
You'll be an experienced Business Analyst with a passion for solving problems and driving positive change.
You'll bring:
- Significant Business Analysis experience within a complex, customer-focused environment.
- Experience leading, coaching and developing Business Analysts.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Experience in requirements gathering, process mapping, user story development and backlog refinement.
- The ability to shape opportunities, assess options and build evidence-based business cases.
- Experience working across Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments.
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Experience within retail, digital, omnichannel or customer-focused organisations would be particularly beneficial.
Why join Pets at Home?
This is an opportunity to influence high-profile change initiatives while helping to shape and grow our Business Analysis practice. You'll join a collaborative and supportive environment where your ideas, expertise and leadership can make a real difference.
Pets just see people. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we'll be happy to support you.
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