Overview

Position Title:Business Analyst

Company:Matalan

Location:Hull, UK

Job Description:

When it comes to Business Change we do things slightly different at Matalan, focused on making change transitions as easy as possible for our leaders & colleagues. Our approach sees us combine the traditional Business Analyst and Business Readiness Lead roles together allowing the team to work holistically across the full cycle of change, not only designing it but seeing it through to delivery and transition, providing one point of contact for the business and reducing handoffs throughout a project. As a value retailer efficiency is a key priority for us and this approach helps us to not only simplify Business Change but to work in the most effective way.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with business sponsors to facilitate understanding of the change and the scope
  • Use this info to translate the change into a tangible engagement story
  • Create, maintain and report on your Business Change plans – being accountable for the plan from creation to delivery
  • Use your specialist insight to influence situations you feel have room for improvement, have a voice and challenge back where necessary to achieve the best outcome for Matalan
  • Create a clear picture of the impact for change to the business/ function with recommendations to mitigate
  • Work cross functionally to bring to life any end to end impacts, influencing where need to ensure the change will be delivered and sustained
  • Gather business requirements
  • Map ‘As is’ ‘ To be’ states, working with process experts to bring the current and the new to life, piecing it all together and providing a route of how we move from one state to the next

Requirements:

  • Strong eCommerce experience
  • Strong Business Analysis skills
  • Able to build out investment/business cases for board and stakeholder approval
  • Able to build out future roadmaps
  • Beneficial to have Omni-Channel experience
  • Suitable background and experience in Change management, can create
  • Strong interpersonal skills – Ability to build lasting relationships and engage an audience and take them on the journey of change
  • Excellent communication skills with a strong attention to detail
  • Problem Solving and Root cause analysis experience
  • Resilient

About Matalan

Matalan was founded over 30 years ago and it’s that same passion and determination that John Hargreaves built our business on that remains at our heart – now with over 220 stores and departments across Mens, Ladies, Kids, Ath-leisure and Home