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Company Description

Informa PLC is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.

Our purpose is to champion the specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions. Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Informa Markets creates global platforms for industries, specialist markets and customers to trade, innovate and grow, delivering over 550 events annually, specialist digital content and actionable data solutions.

Job Description

Informa Markets is a global leader in business media and events, connecting buyers and sellers through our digital products and services.

The role of Senior Business Analyst will reside within the Transformation Office, specifically within Business Architecture & Analysis. The role will be focused on leading the transition of Informa Markets from a largely in-person events business to a more digitally focused organization.

The Senior Business Analyst works with business leaders and wider transformation colleagues to interpret business roadmaps, initiatives, impact on operating model, capabilities, processes and assets, to define end-to-end strategic execution and scope that is driven by commercial transformation outcomes.

The core aspects of this role are to:

• Act as the lead analyst assigned to large strategic transformation initiatives across regional portfolios
• Define, manage the end-to-end scope and ensure production of all required analysis artefacts across the Shape and Discover phases of the change lifecycle
• Support portfolio planning by ensuring both internal and external interdependencies are understood as part of determining the scope and approach to delivery
• Leverage and contribute to the evolving business architecture and analysis knowledge base through a combination of industry standard practices and continuous learnings from change delivery within the business
• Apply your experience and knowledge in support of change initiatives and decision making, such as business transformations, mergers and acquisitions, project portfolio management, and application portfolio management
• Ensure change delivery is supported as and when required during the Delivery phase.

Job Summary/Responsibilities

• Capture the strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability at the portfolio and initiative level, connecting the strategic imperative to the work being done
• Conduct analysis and recommend the best path for solving business problems/opportunities that may include process improvement, systems enhancement, user training and/or software procurement
• Ensure application of scaled agile ways of working at the portfolio level are followed at all times, within the remit of business architecture and analysis
• Develop and maintain business relationships with senior business portfolio stakeholders to understand business change needs to feed into the portfolio backlog for planning and prioritisation
• Work and maintain close relationships with transformation delivery managers and enterprise architects within the Transformation Office to set the joint tone for strategic execution
• Articulate scoping impacts across the client lifecycle and enterprise support functions to quickly support initiative and programme orientation for all stakeholder groups concerned
• Define end-to-end scope in the form of process-oriented business scenarios and value streams which cut across enterprise functions. Capabilities and platforms
• Ensure business scenarios and value streams are value delivery focused
• Plan the analysis and design activities of work for an initiative by tracking delivery of scope at the initiative level
• Communicate the analysis and design plan to delivery teams and provide support with syndication and alignment prior to delivery
• Ensure solutions developed across the organization are aligned to architectural standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services

Qualifications

• An excellent problem solver who is able to apply sound business and situational judgement in their work that drives approach to analysis
• Drive and determination to achieve successful project delivery
• The ability to apply skills and knowledge to ensure requirements are clear, robust and testable
• Significant experience modelling business requirements using a variety of tools and techniques
• Extensive experience of end-to-end transformation scoping and change delivery lifecycle experience – both business and IT initiatives
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders e.g. business operations, technology and senior leadership
• The ability to intervene in technology projects to solve problems and empower the delivery team to overcome challenges.
• Experience of working in scaled enterprise agile delivery teams and full knowledge of the software development lifecycle
• Experience of data driven projects enabling business insights and automation.
• The ability to carry out data analysis for measurement, analytics and reporting projects
• Integrity and dedication to doing the right thing even when under pressure
• Preferable – industry recognised Business Analysis qualification e.g. ISEB or IIBA

Additional Information

Alongside a competitive salary, Informa also offers the following employee benefits:

• Season ticket loan & Cycle2work
• Money purchased pension scheme & life assurance
• Eye care and childcare vouchers
• 25 days annual holiday, increasing to 27 days after 2 years, plus an extra day off for your birthday
• Our Learning team supports year-round development
• Informa's colleague Share Incentive Plan matches every share purchased with 2 free shares
• Informa offers a £250 Healthy Lifestyle subsidy to spend on fitness activities and classes
• You are given permission to take days off to volunteer with an approved scheme

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements.

If you're excited about working in our dynamic, people orientated culture and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!

We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under local law.