Business Analyst - Delivery focused

Business Analyst (Delivery-Focused / Clarity-in-Complexity)

Start 1st of June - 4 month initial contract
Up to £600 per day - Inside IR35 - Paid through an umbrella
Travel to site - Stevenage as required - no more than twice a week

Role

Purpose:

The Business Analyst is responsible for bringing clarity, cohesion, and structure to complex delivery environments, ensuring that business intent is accurately translated into actionable, well-defined requirements that enable effective delivery.

Operating within ambiguous and fast-moving programmes, the Business Analyst plays a critical role in turning fragmented inputs into clear requirements, enabling informed decisions, and ensuring delivery remains aligned, prioritised, and executable.

The role focuses on supporting delivery at pace rather than shaping upstream strategy or value definition.

Key Accountabilities:

Clarity & Requirement Shaping

Translate fragmented business needs into clear requirements and structured user stories
Define acceptance criteria aligned to business intent
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and assumptions
Maintain a single, trusted view of requirements

Backlog & Scope Management

Support definition and maintenance of epics, features, and user stories
Ensure backlog items are well-defined, prioritised, and ready for delivery
Work with Product and Delivery leads to refine and sequence scope
Manage dependencies, constraints, and scope boundaries

Stakeholder Coordination & Alignment

Act as a coordination point across business, product, and technology teams
Facilitate workshops to align understanding and resolve ambiguity
Ensure shared understanding across stakeholders

Decision Support & Structured Thinking

Break down complex problems into structured components
Present options with trade-offs and implications
Bring discipline to assumptions, risks, and dependencies

Delivery Support

Support delivery teams in clarifying requirements during build
Participate in backlog refinement and delivery ceremonies
Ensure alignment between business intent and delivered outputs

Traceability & Quality

Ensure requirements are traceable to business intent
Maintain consistency across artefacts and changes
Support validation through clear acceptance criteria

Core Skills & Capabilities

Strong analytical and structuring capability
Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments
Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
Clear written and verbal communication
Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
Understanding of digital, data, and platform environments

Experience & Background

Experience in a Business Analyst or similar delivery-focused role - Utilities/Telecoms/Large Capital/Construction
Experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
Experience supporting programme or transformation delivery
Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems

"What This Role Is and Is Not"

This role is:

A delivery enabler
A clarity driver in complex environments
A structured thinker who enables progress

This role is not:

Not responsible for defining strategic value propositions
Not a Product Owner or Product Manager
Not responsible for solution design
Not a documentation-only role

Please note you will receive an automated response advising you that we have received your CV.

Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 18 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting.

Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.

We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age