Senior Business Analyst, Cancer Research
12 Month FTC
£46-52k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford (2 Redman Place))
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£46-52k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford (2 Redman Place))
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Significant business analysis experience, including designing, and facilitating workshops
- Managed multiple workstreams/ products with a background in dealing with complexity, managing priorities, and identifying potential dependencies and risks
- Strong understanding and experience in business analysis skills, techniques, and practices
- Able to communicate and understand stakeholders with a proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within a variety of contexts
- Advanced experience in process and data modelling, and process improvement
- Understanding of what Cancer Research UK is trying to achieve and the impact that the Delivery team makes in contributing to those objectives
What the job involves
- Providing business analysis and delivering the technical transformation to Cancer Research UK working across several workstreams/ products
- Assessing the bigger picture to manage priorities and identify potential dependencies and risks
- Forging strong stakeholder relationships at all levels to identify and assess solution options (this includes process improvement to meet business outcomes and provide the best cost/benefit balance)
- Developing a strong understanding of the needs of specific business areas and their strategy to influence decisions
- Maintaining an understanding of the capabilities, processes, and services which make up the Cancer Research UK technology landscape with an awareness of emerging technologies to ensure compatible solutions are designed and existing capabilities are re-used where suitable
- Assisting in the development of investment appraisals, providing decision support to ensure that solutions designed deliver maximum value to the charity
- Collating, understanding, and documenting business, functional, and non-functional requirements
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses of existing processes, suggesting areas of improvement, and challenging as needed
- Translating business requirements into Agile epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Ensuring requirements are documented appropriately for use by the project team (e.g. developers, testers) according to the project methodology used (e.g. Agile)
- Partnering with departments across the charity to ensure correlation between requirements, information architecture, and user experience
- Providing analysis expertise and leadership throughout project lifecycles, contributing to the successful delivery of large / complex projects, developing practical ideas and solutions to deliver value to the business
- Sharing expertise, best practices, and providing support to the business analyst community and to business process owners, whilst also contributing to analysis toolkits
- Inputting into test scenarios, scripts, design, and execution by working with customers and colleagues to ensure changes are appropriately tested and accepted
- Where appropriate creating relevant guidelines and user guides
- Partnering closely with Project Managers and Business Owners to track progress against milestones, develop plans, prioritise work, and create sufficient documentation for projects/ work streams
- Defining KPIs/ SLAs to monitor the effectiveness of processes and enable greater efficiency
- Reports to Lead Business Analyst
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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