Senior Buyer Analyst

MPI requires a Senior Buyer Analyst, for our client based in London

Hybrid: This role can be based in London, Salford, Birmingham Mailbox, Bristol or Cardiff. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance home working with office working and travel to client’s  locations.

Rate:  £500 per day inside IR35

Start date: 02.06.2025

Duration: 31.01.2026

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, Mon- Fri

Interview process

Technical task for shortlisted candidates – approx. one hour to read and complete an exercise

Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions

 Job introduction

 This role is based within the HR, Learning and Resource Scheduling Team within the Corporate Systems department, which sits in the Technology and Media Operations division.

Main responsibilities

 As a Senior Business Analyst within Corporate Systems, you’ll play a key role in modernising and simplifying the current Systems landscape within HR, Learning and Resource Scheduling technical products and platforms.

 The role of the Senior Business Analyst is to work closely with business stakeholders, suppliers and technical delivery teams both internally and externally, to ensure that the Client’s investment and the solutions delivered, provide benefits.

 We offer a warm welcome with full support settling in and foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed.  We're deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day.  

 This role will be within the Resource Scheduling Programme and will be responsible for delivering the Business Analysis & System Design workstream working alongside permanent and contractor colleagues.

 The programme will deliver a transformation of the resource scheduling landscape within the BBC and will be working with key editorial, commercial and technical stakeholders. The role requires extensive programme experience in a Business Analysis capacity including workshop design and facilitation, mentoring and developing other team members, working with senior stakeholders to achieve objectives of the programme including standardisation and new ways of working and change leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business needs and drivers and confirming objectives and priorities.
• Accurately articulating user, business and technical requirements, (both functional and non-functional) to ensure all requirements are valid and traceable, contributing to a business case and solution delivery.
• Collaborate and interact with multi-disciplined teams to ensure there is a clear understanding the change that is being proposed and why.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills to adapt messaging appropriately, ensuring processes, needs, approaches, and outcomes are clearly understood.
• Build and maintain good business relationships with all stakeholders, to develop business system and domain knowledge and share across the team.
• Advise on the implementation of strategy and identification of technical options, using research and knowledge to inform and drive business decisions both short and longer term.
• Acquire, document and maintain knowledge of existing business processes and systems to identify areas for potential process improvement.
• Identify business risk and issues; detail business impact creating mitigation plans, include any handover or operational early life support for a smooth transition.
• Work closely with Project and Product Management teams, providing updates and pro-actively seeking to remove task blockers to facilitate business or technical decisions in the BBC’s best interest.
• Work with business areas to define business benefits, creating benefits maps and introducing measures to baseline, track and report progress against targets, to measure performance and value.

Essential

• Degree in Business Management, Enterprise IT, other relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Thorough knowledge of business and data analysis tools and techniques such as requirements engineering, structured analysis and design, process mapping and component business modelling, business process re-engineering, workshop design and facilitation.
• Communication skills - both written and spoken - using a variety of methods; the ability to get the message across and relative to the audience.
• Manages professional relationships, listens, encourages discussion, promotes two-way communication and challenges where appropriate.
• Comprehensive knowledge of technical product management and development methodologies, underpinned by strong software design principles.
• Experience of leading and delivering Business Analysis disciplines as a Senior Business Analyst, at programme level, in a technical environment and project lifecycle delivery.
• Ability to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts and to explore them systematically.
• Strong and effective planning and organisational skills; able to juggle competing priorities and take the appropriate course of action.
• Resilient and able to take input and deliver on a task; works on own initiative; can direct, mentor and develop others.
• Ability to effectively manage professional relationships and stakeholders at multiple levels of an organisation.
• Ability to work with and influence senior stakeholders to achieve objectives of the programme including standardisation and new ways of working.

 Desirable

• Entry Certificate in Business (ECBA) Level 1 and/or Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) Level 2 or equivalent experience.
• British Computer Society Certified Business Analysis Professional (BCS CBAP) or equivalent formal qualification in business analysis.
• Problem solving, with both tactical and strategic thinking.
• Commercial focus, proven influencing, negotiation and conflict management skills with the ability to engage at all levels.
• Considerable experience gained within a media or similar multi-national organisation.
• Subject Matter Expert or experience in Resource Scheduling products. Specifically the processes of identifying, forecasting, and allocating resources, i.e. people, equipment and facilities.
• Experience in leading change initiatives at programme level.