Are you passionate about delivering technology that gets the people of Greater Manchester moving?
Would you like the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects that enables around 3 million people travel sustainably around Greater Manchester?
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) are seeking a Business Analyst who can confidently work within an Agile or Waterfall team, to deliver a variety of different products and service improvements. You must be an excellent communicator and able to work with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be able to work closely with stakeholders using different techniques such as workshops or interviews, amongst others, to be able to understand their needs. You will be able to translate these into requirements or user stories that can be used by your team to progress delivery. You will be experienced in process mapping and be able to identify areas for improvement whilst providing justification for these changes.
Your Role
You will be able to understand and manage complex requirements and collaborate with varying teams whilst building the relationships with other business areas to understand their current challenges and future aspirations. You will have natural enquiring mind to investigate and discover the business solutions. You will be self-motivated and able to work independently.
In addition to this, you will demonstrate the skills and experience in the following key areas:
- Identifies both functional and non-functional requirements
- Responsible for ensuring that requirements are clearly understood and interpreted into signed off deliverables.
- Ability to understands the Business Strategy and teams’ strategic objectives and how you can align changes to them.
- Solve and unblock issues between teams or departments.
- Expert in a range of agile, waterfall and hybrid Business Analysis techniques.
- Experience of coordinating and managing workshops with a range of stakeholders.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of team practices.
Who are we?
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is responsible for delivering Greater Manchester’s future transport strategy and commitments. This is a busy and exciting time for us: under the devolution agreement and with Greater Manchester at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse, transport will play a vital role in supporting growth and prosperity in the UK’s largest regional economy outside London.
The scale of change, the size of the investment and the dedicated team we have in the business today make it an exciting place to work with a lot of scope to deliver first-class products and services and continue your own personal development journey. We have a dynamic working environment and a culture that collaborates, shares, continually learns, challenges and embraces better ways of doing things to continually meet user needs through technology and data.
The breadth of what we do is wide and varied, and we are innovating fast.
What you’ll bring
What you do and how you do it is important whatever type of role you work in at TfGM and even small behaviours and actions can have a really big impact. At TfGM, our behaviours bring to life our values of Deliver, Care and Adapt.
You must be able to work within Digital and Transformation environments, delivering both technical and non-technical change. You should have experience in working within multi-functional teams comprising of Delivery Managers, Architects, Developers, and Testers. Experience in the Transport or Public Sector would be an advantage.
What we can offer you
This is a permanent role and comes with a salary of £50,150 - £54,607 per annum depending on experience. This is comprised of base salary plus market supplement, (£40,650 - £45,107 + plus MFS £9,500, the market supplement is paid monthly and reviewed annually).
At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
- Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
- Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
- Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
- Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required
What's next?
To apply please submit your CV and also provide a covering letter providing clear examples of how your experience meets the requirements of the role, all appointments will be based on merit. Our short-listing process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on either of these documents. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.
TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.
For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.
Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
NOTE TO AGENCIES we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.
