
Lead Business Analyst
Bauer Media Outdoor UK
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Facilitate discovery workshops with stakeholders and delivery teams
- Elicit and clarify business objectives, KPIs, definitions, risks, and constraints
- Ensure engineers and analysts participate directly in discovery wherever possible
- Translate discovery outcomes into structured analytical problem statements
- Write and model high quality data user stories and acceptance criteria
- Help teams define requirements that prioritise correctness, usability, and business value
- Coach engineers and analysts in effective discovery techniques
- Help teams ask stronger business questions and interpret requirements
- Support Engineering Managers in embedding discovery practices into their ways of working
- Define lightweight standards for discovery outputs, user stories, and business glossaries
- Encourage consistent practices across teams while allowing flexibility across domains
- Spot common themes, risks, and opportunities emerging from discovery activities
- Provide insights that help inform BI roadmap planning and strategic decision making
Requirements
- Experience working as a Business Analyst within data, analytics, or BI environments
- Strong understanding of data delivery, analytics workflows, and data driven products
- Proven experience facilitating discovery sessions and navigating ambiguous problem spaces
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Ability to influence teams and stakeholders without formal authority
- Experience working directly with Data Engineering teams (Desirable)
- Exposure to modern data platforms and analytical ecosystems (Desirable)
- Experience improving delivery practices or contributing to capability uplift (Desirable)
- Comfortable operating across multiple business domains (Desirable)
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with regular office presence
- 25 days annual leave
- Company pension contribution up to 8 percent
- Healthcare cash plan
- Life insurance and income protection
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
business analysisdata analyticsdata deliverydata-driven productsdiscovery techniquesuser storiesacceptance criteriarequirements definitionKPI definitionrisk assessment
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementcommunicationinfluencecoachingproblem-solvingflexibilitycollaborationcritical thinkingfacilitationstrategic decision making