Champion business value: Actively participate in defining and articulating the business justification for application projects that introduce new or improved processes.

Translate vision into actionable requirements: Gather a deep understanding of current operations, define future state business processes, and translate these into clear, actionable User Stories that guide our development teams.

Support quality assurance: Partner with the business users to define robust acceptance test scenarios, empowering them to validate that solutions meet business needs.

Facilitate successful adoption: Provide essential transition support and contribute to change delivery efforts, ensuring our user community effectively adopts new systems and realizes the intended business benefits.

Main Tasks

• Strategic Investigation & Opportunity Identification: Participate in investigative work to pinpoint significant business opportunities and assist in defining effective new or improved business processes. Specify how these improvements can be realized through advancements in information systems, data management, and operational practices.
• High-Level Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Collaborate extensively with senior client and IT staff on strategic studies, detailed requirements specifications, and feasibility analyses. Ensure all stakeholder perspectives are thoroughly considered, verified, and validated, and that priorities align with overarching business objectives.
• Bridging Business & Technology: Leverage your business acumen to assess and advise on the practicality of different solution alternatives, skillfully integrating technical possibilities with operational realities. Take ownership of the detailed specification and modeling of recommended solutions, applying relevant resources, standards, methods, and tools. Maintain strong relationships with software engineering and service delivery teams, playing a full part in bringing systems to successful implementation.
• Documentation & Agile Delivery: Eliciting, analysing, and documenting detailed functional and non-functional requirements. Crafting clear, concise, and actionable User Stories and acceptance criteria that accurately represent business needs and guide our development teams. Analysing current and future state business processes, identifying gaps, and proposing optimisations. Apply established standards, methods, and tools effectively to produce consistently high-quality documentation, covering both technical details and descriptive aspects. Actively participate in planning and facilitating meetings, workshops, and stakeholder engagement throughout system investigations and subsequent development work. Working closely with Product Owners to refine and groom the product backlog, ensuring user stories are well-defined, prioritised, and ready for development.

Requirements

• Has achieved proficiency in the tasks of Business analysis with 4+ years experience in a Business Analysis role.
• Domain level experience within the relevant area.
• Performs work activities covering technical, financial and quality aspects.
• Has excellent interpersonal skills and is fully experienced at dealing with business users.
• Possesses a broad understanding of business and business skills, and understands the significance of commercial constraints.
• Probably educated to bachelor degree level or holds a relevant professional qualification.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Agile frameworks and development life-cycles.
• Understands the interdependencies of business processes and information systems.
• Has achieved proficiency in the task of Requirements definition and management.
• Is experienced in communicating with stakeholders at all levels, singly and in groups.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
• 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in service benefit
• Healthcare
• Free parking

At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.

We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to (joanna.sharpe@rentokil-initial.com) if you need anything

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