Lead Business Analyst
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £54,857 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 June 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 406287/1 |
Summary
The Business Analysis team within IT Delivery Management is integral in providing analytical support for project decision-making. They collect and analyse business requirements, ensuring alignment with project goals and stakeholder needs.
The MCA implements the government’s maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.
Safer lives. Safer Ships. Cleaner Seas.
Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.
We are committed to giving all our colleagues purpose, professionalism and pride in what we do. We work in supportive, diverse and inclusive teams.
We want everyone to feel valued and supported to achieve their potential at MCA.
This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks groups covering, Women’s, LGBTQI+, Race, Carers, Mental Wellbeing, Veterans Network and volunteer Respect Ambassadors.
As the Lead Business Analyst, this role will be responsible for complex and high-profile business analysis to enable problem solving and quality business delivery. Creating, and fostering strategic stakeholder relationships across the MCA, wider Civil Service/Department for Transport (DfT), and Suppliers. Embedding a culture and community for business analysis throughout the organisation, delivering high standards and quality commercial outputs.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Manage strategic stakeholder relationships across the MCA and wider DfT/Civil Service.
- Lead the development of the business analysis community by sharing best practice and mentoring others.
- Take responsibility for articulating complex and high-profile business problems to ensure effective business delivery through impactful commercial arrangements.
- Undertake complex or high-profile research and analysis to understand how a business or business area works, considering the people, procurement, policy constraints, organisation, current/future strategic direction, processes, information, risk management, data and technology.
- Provide expert challenge to business areas on problems and solutions, considering value for money, sustainability, and alignment to strategy and business plans.
For further information about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached role profile.
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