Business Analyst, Connected Places Catapult
Fixed Term Contract Until June 2024
$41.6-50.9k
Salary depending on location and proven ability
2+ days a week in office
Innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership
Job no longer available
Innovation accelerator for cities, transport, and place leadership
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$41.6-50.9k
Salary depending on location and proven ability
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide impartial ‘innovation as a service’ for public bodies, businesses, and infrastructure providers to catalyse step-change improvements in the way people live, work and travel.
Role
Who you are
- Relevant degree qualification or equivalent proven ability
- Experience of working in a commercial or business led environment
- In depth understanding of research methodologies and/or strategic analysis
- Experience in both the designing and facilitation of stakeholder interviews and workshops
- Strong analytical skills with sound understanding of and passion for undertaking research
- Ability to forge close working relationships with a commercial acumen and analytical mind
- Demonstrable experience of methods and techniques for capturing and defining business requirements
- Demonstrable experience of creating appropriate value propositions and designing business models
- Demonstrable experience of using market analysis and business insight to support commercial decisions
- Demonstrable experience of delivering consultancy / support / training activities across core business analysis activities (e.g., market sizing, value proposition creation, etc.)
- Consultative thinking, with a focus on delivering the story, not just the data
- Attentive to details and showing strategic insights in the delivery of research findings
- Proficient in Business Process Analysis (as-is and to-be)
- Demonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes
- Advanced level use of Microsoft Office suite of applications
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Ability to produce high quality written reports and presentations
- Organised, outgoing, and capable of delivering tangible results in a fast paced and creative environment
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Must be able to manage own time and work priorities
Desirable
- Experience of undertaking financial/P&L analysis may be useful for this role
- Data analysis and/or visualisation experience using PowerBI or other similar tools is also desirable (but not essential) for this role
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Business Analyst to join our Business Modelling & Market Appraisal Team
- Reporting to Team Leader Business Modelling & Market Appraisal
- Undertake business research, analyse industry & market trends, generate reports, briefings, presentations, and other project materials
- Produce high quality market research content on the markets, including market size forecasts, competitive (market share) information, challenge identification and strategic recommendations
- Delivering workshops, 1-2-1 sessions and other business support activities to SMEs on topics such as market sizing, value proposition identification and investment strategy, among others
- Collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project or SME support programme, and translating these into functional specifications
- Develop value propositions and business models for new technologies, products and services
- Formulate roadmaps to overcome market barriers and maximize market benefits
- Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions
- Write exploitation plans to guide implementation of project findings
- Lead investigations, stakeholder analysis, requirements analysis, feasibility studies and impact assessments
- Document workflows and results of business analysis
- Produce high quality reports
- You may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties to support the Catapult in achieving its strategic outcomes and ensure effective business operations
- Fixed term contract until 30/06/2024
Application process
- Closing date - 8th August 2023
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Technological innovation generally leads to the modernisation of cities, a progression that infrastructure providers, mobility businesses, and public institutions thrive on. However, innovating upon the infrastructure of a city is easier said than done, with companies often lacking the creative expertise or funding necessary to truly innovate upon their public products.
Connected Places Catapult offers an innovation accelerator for cities, offering 'innovation as a service' and funding to infrastructure providers, mobility companies, environment businesses, and public institutions to help develop their ideas for the future. Examples of backed projects include carbon elimination programs for cities, post COVID-19 technology, communal innovation hubs, and social hubs driven by virtual and augmented reality.
Whilst companies often employ creative thinkers to handle product innovations, Connected Places Catapult shows the potential to provide a more effective solution by not only providing innovation as a service but also the necessary capital and project management. In addition to serving large-scale infrastructural projects, the company also runs a dedicated SME programme to accelerate the growth of innovative small businesses.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Volunteering days: Support wider causes with two paid days of volunteering leave per year; whether you’re looking to clean up a beach, are a school governor or charity trustee, or want to support a local charitable event
- Cash Health plan: To help you stay fit and healthy we offer a range of health and wellbeing cash plans. You have access to essential and everyday healthcare expenses such as flu vaccine, dental, eye-care and medical bills
- Cycle to work scheme: Our cycle to work scheme helps you spread the cost of a new bike over a 12- or 18-month period. We also have bike racks, showers and lockers at both of our office locations (plus a drying cabinet in the London office)
- Payroll giving: Payroll Giving is a flexible option which allows you to give back to your charity of choice. The scheme takes regular contributions from your pre-tax income – helping your money go further for those who need it the most
- Tech loans: As an innovative, early adopter and future thinker, you’ll want the latest gadgets. You have the option of buying any IT equipment and repaying it through payroll deductions
- Discount and offers: Help your well-earned money go a bit further with a range of discounts from a wide variety of retailers. From high street stores to your weekly shop, you can find discounts with retailers such as Adidas, Argos, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and M&S to name just a few
- Employee assistance programme: Our employee assistance programme offers 24/7 confidential work/life support services which is available immediately from joining. The scheme is open to your immediate family too
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Erika Lewis
(CEO)Previously the CEO at the AI Safety Summit. They also spent 5 years at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a Director.
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