
Senior Business Analyst
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Birmingham • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead cross-functional Business and Technology teams to define, analyse, and implement complex data-driven change
- Own and lead business analysis deliverables including requirement definition, gap analysis, process mapping, support test design and execution
- Understand, validate and Document functional and non-functional requirements
- Assist client leads in understanding the scope of their data initiatives
- Raise key issues and risks in a timely manner to the Project Manager/Delivery Lead
- Identify and refine use cases where data and AI can drive measurable business value
- Assess feasibility, risks, and data readiness for AI/ML/GenAI opportunities
- Ensure requirements include data quality, metadata and governance needs
- Help ensure AI use cases comply with data privacy, security and regulatory requirements
- Translate business needs into requirements for AI/analytics solutions
Requirements
- 8–12+ years in business analyst roles across data, AI, security, compliance, or cloud platforms
- Proven experience delivering enterprise scale solutions
- Strong background in data management and data security/governance programmes
- Ability to delve deep into complex topics, analyse the impact and provide solutions
- Ability to assimilate information quickly and make informed decisions
- Strong initiative and accountability to investigate, resolve issues and own outcomes
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills
- Experience in working with cross-region teams and projects
- Ability to lead medium to large sized teams
- Experience in delivering projects using an Agile methodology
- Strong understanding of data concepts: data quality, master/reference data, metadata, lineage, governance
- Ability to interpret outputs from analytics, dashboards and models, and challenge them from a business perspective
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts (e.g. supervised vs unsupervised learning, prediction vs classification, model drift, basic evaluation metrics)
Benefits
- Positive work-life balance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons
- Access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications
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Hard Skills & Tools
business analysisrequirement definitiongap analysisprocess mappingdata managementdata securitydata governanceAImachine learningAgile methodology
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solvinginitiativeaccountabilitycommunication skillsleadershipcollaborationdecision-makingpresentation skillsadaptability