Project Business Analyst

Culina Group is a leading UK 3rd party food & drinks logistics provider offering dedicated and shared user warehousing and distribution solutions.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!

The Project Business Analyst blends technical process knowledge with business acumen to optimise operational and back-office practices and systems, analysing current  as-is  workflows, identifying inefficiencies and solution requirements, then designing improved  to-be  processes and systems architecture using data, best practice, mapping tools, and stakeholder workshops to drive efficiency, automation, compliance to regulatory standards, and strategic alignment. Key duties involve gap analysis, requirements gathering, impact analysis, the creation of process maps, the development of business cases, designing high level system changes necessary.

Outputs produced will need to be measurable, achievable, consistent with current and future systems architecture, meet business goals, and rolled out in an effective way. The role will involve acting as a liaison between various stakeholders at all levels including IT, central functions and business unit. Key to this role will be to bring to such interactions, a solid knowledge of systems and processes, as well as the ability to translate requirements, changes, gaps and solutions into language that can be understood and appreciated by all stakeholders.

Key responsibilities of the Project Business Analyst:

• Develop, configure, improve and implement operational and back-office processes from start to finish, through researching, mapping, and analysing existing operational processes to find bottlenecks, waste and opportunities to improve or automate
• Assess performance, develop measurement capture processes and reports, interpret data, and present findings to management
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations; implement quality control
• Support the group’s digital transformation, including the development of business cases and the effective capture of business requirements, and the coordination of projects to deliver appropriate technical and process solutions.
• Coordination of stakeholders to develop appropriate technical and non-technical solutions, being aware of strategic landscape to ensure that such solutions are achievable and consistent with the group’s digital transformation
• Establish project teams to deliver technical and non-digital solutions, interpreting project objectives for the purpose of providing clarity in outlining deliverables, tasks, assumptions and project dependencies
• Liaise with senior management, process owners, IT, and end-users to gather requirements, identify gaps between current/as-is and future processes and systems, and gain buy-in to proposed solutions (technical and non-technical) and proposed implementation plans
• Develop process standards, documentation including technical specifications where necessary, and policies for process management

• Deep understanding of business operations and problem-solving
• Precise and challenging nature in order to obtain full disclosure of facts, ideas and processes from audiences
• Effectively communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven experience in large-scale business change management within a corporate environment
• Proven experience in technical business analysis, with an ability to define technical solutions from user requirements
• Ability to understand and refer to group digital transformation, so that technical solutions do not deviate from this strategy. This includes an awareness to be able to identify the constraints within which such solutions are bound.
• Use and creation of flowcharts using applications such as MS Visio, Power point and/or other relevant tools
• Ability to facilitate the creation of project teams that are appropriate to deliver technical and non-technical solutions, using influence and the power of enquiry to help develop the most appropriate team
• Self-organised, motivated and…