Business Analyst Planning & Forecasting

Job description

Business Analyst (BA) – Planning and Forecasting (12 Month Fixed Term Contract)

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Technology at Primark
Our technology team is actively shaping the next wave of advancements. Engaged with innovative initiatives, your expertise will propel our business into the future. Collaborating with a creative team of tech enthusiasts, you’ll contribute your unique skills to fuel our technological advancements.

The Planning and Forecasting BA will be responsible to identify and shape business capability into key requirements to develop the Planning Pillar for the benefit of Primark’s customers.

Essential to the role is an ability to understand business processes, analysing business needs & translating them into requirements as well as proposing application solutions that will allow the organisation to achieve its goals.

Working closely with a variety of stakeholders across, Technology, the business, partners and suppliers, the role requires strong analytical and communication skills, to ensure effective engagement with a diverse stakeholder group.

What You’ll Get
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:

Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do as an BA – Planning and Forecasting
We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:
·  Develop a strong understanding of our existing system and application landscape as a building block for future solutions.
·  Work with an internal and external team to help shape the landscape and solutions that will allow the business to achieve its strategic goals.
·  Using interviews, workshops, documentation reviews, business analysis and business process evaluations, gather business requirements.
·  Work with and challenge business units on their assumptions to help deliver solutions for their current and future needs.
·  Work with information gathered from multiple sources, be able to evaluate true business requirement from user request, ensure that proposed solution is reconciled with all business inputs, and resolve business conflicts as required.
·  Be able to draw requirements together into Functional Requirements Documents using existing templates, making use of plain English, diagrams, process flows and scenarios so that the resulting document will be meaningful to the intended users.
·  Can work in a team collaborating on different aspects of a large project, ensuring that the objectives of all components are aligned, and that delivered solution will work as an end-to-end process.
What You’ll Bring
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
·  Minimum 3 years’ experience in BA role
·  Experience in a B&M based environment – with experience in Planning preferred e.g., WSSI/ Line Projections/ MFP/ Assortment Planning etc.
·  Experience of working within Agile environments and methodologies preferred.
·  Have strong analytical skills to interpret customer needs and translate into application and operational requirements.
·  Demonstrate experience of gathering requirements and converting them into technical/functional and process documentation.
·  Possess the ability to work alongside senior management at all levels within Technology, the business and external service providers / business partners.
About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

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