Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP ECC​/S​/HANA​/IBP​/S&OP

Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP ECC6 / S/4

HANA / IBP / S&OP

Permanent

c.£90k - £95k + £7.2k Car Allowance + Up to 25% Bonus + Benefits Package

Location:

Weybridge Surrey (Hybrid - 3 Days Per Week Onsite)

Must be Eligible to work in the UK.

You’ll be an exceptional Senior Business Analyst with extensive Business Analysis & Business Partnering experience, together with a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing. You’ll thrive in stakeholder-facing environments, leading workshops, gathering requirements & shaping future-state business processes.

Gravitas & credibility to engage with senior stakeholders. Ability to lead Business Analysis activities across several strategic transformation programmes, helping shape future-state business processes from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.

• Lead Business Analysis activities across large-scale Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing transformation programmes.
• Play a key role across several strategic transformation programmes, including IBP, MES & PLM initiatives.
• Continuous improvement across Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management capabilities.
• Involved from the early stages of programmes, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, defining future‑state business processes and helping shape solution design alongside senior business stakeholders and Solution Architects.
• Build strong business partnerships with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing & IT.
• Facilitate workshops, gather business requirements and define future‑state business processes.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Challenge existing processes & identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Solution Architects & Technology teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Support multiple strategic transformation programmes across Europe.
• Drive the development of business cases, ensuring delivery of measurable business value.
• Lead system implementation activities, including Testing, User Acceptance & Business Readiness.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams & third‑party partners to deliver high‑quality solutions.
• Manage & prioritise business change through governance forums.
• Provide leadership, coaching & mentoring to Business Analysts – through either direct line management & matrix leadership.

• Significant Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments.
• Business Analysis experience from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.
• Business Partnering with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing.
• Stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation & requirements gathering.
• End‑to‑end Supply Chain lifecycle processes – ability to advise & consult.
• Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management business processes.
• SAP – experience working within SAP ECC6 or SAP S/4
  
  HANA or SAP‑enabled enterprise environments.
• SAP IBP, S&OP, or comparable Planning & Supply Chain solutions – SAP APO, Kinaxis, Rapid Response, OMP, Blue Yonder.
• Supporting SAP Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) would be highly advantageous.
• Collaborative approach & forward‑thinking.
• Excellent analytical & problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience with in FMCG, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Retail or other complex manufacturing environments is desirable.