Business Analyst, Francis Crick
£43.5-50k
3+ days a week in office (St Pancras, London)
Biomedical research institute
Be an early applicant
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£43.5-50k
3+ days a week in office (St Pancras, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a strong communicator who can bring people together, navigate ambiguity and balance multiple priorities. You’ll combine critical thinking with creative and logical problem solving, working independently or collaboratively as needed
- Whether your experience comes from IT or another area of a business, what matters most is your ability to analyse, influence and connect ideas. An interest in technology is key, and you’ll be supported to develop your skills through structured training, including the BCS Business Analysis International Diploma
- Demonstrate relevant work experience, ideally in research, academic, science or technology industries*
- Close working knowledge of IT systems that support a business function*
- Close working knowledge of an organisation's business processes
- Ability to articulate and visualise complex problems and technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrate critical analysis of business systems and processes*
- Experience of capturing user requirements, managing and prioritising requirements catalogue or product backlog
- Experience of mapping current and future business processes, system and data flows
- Experience of identifying improvements to process, practice or systems to resolve complex issues
- Build and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders across multiple business functions*
- Experience of working with other technical teams within IT as part of the project or software development lifecycle
What the job involves
- Reports to: Anita Jena-Smol
- We are looking for enthusiastic Business Analyst to join us on the Service Design, Business Analysis and Projects team here at the Francis Crick Institute. Sitting within ITO, this team sits at the centre of people, process and technology ensuring solutions deliver real organisational value
- As a Business Analyst, you’ll act as the bridge between users and technology, translating needs into practical, effective solutions. Working with stakeholders across scientific and operational areas, you’ll shape end to end user journeys and help improve how the organisation works
- You’ll bring an analytical and curious mindset, using data to understand problems, asking the right questions and challenging assumptions to uncover true needs. With a focus on continuous improvement, you’ll identify opportunities to optimise processes and influence stakeholders towards the best solutions, including alternative tools or approaches where appropriate
- This is a great opportunity to grow your career in a collaborative, purpose led environment at the intersection of science and technology
- Build relationships with key stakeholders across Science and Operations to gain a deep understanding of Crick user journeys
- Participate in and run analysis workshops with stakeholders to identify scope, quantify problems, elicit requirements, map and re-design business processes
- Identify and gather information to critically evaluate IT and business systems and their impact in delivering organisational need
- Use your knowledge of internal and external business practice to recommend solutions for improving systems, processes or ways of working
- Learn and understand the ITO estate of science and operations technology platforms, so that the right technology is implemented to meet the stakeholders’ need
- Create meaningful, visual service design and business analysis documentation
- Contribute to design, build and deployment of technical solutions
Application process
- Application closing date: 15th of June 2026 at 23.59pm
- Please note you must meet the essential criteria listed within the Role Profile, to have your application reviewed
- We reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any given time due to the number of applications received
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022 and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.3bn
GRANT
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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