Lead Business Analyst, Cancer Research
£55-63k
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
HealthcarePersonal healthCharitySocial ImpactMedTech
Job no longer available
£55-63k
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
HealthcarePersonal healthCharitySocial ImpactMedTech
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a Lead or Senior Business Analyst who has managed direct reports and simulatanously led and coordinated multiple BA projects across a wide range of business domains and technologies, we’d love for you to join our mission
- A Lead or Senior Business Analyst who has managed direct reports
- Simultaneously led and coordinated BA projects across a wide range of business domains and technologies while acting as the bridge between business teams and technology
- Strong understanding and experience in business analysis skills, techniques, and practices
- Proven ability to understand, correlate, and bring together business requirements, data, Information Architecture, and User Experience (UX)
- Can bring technical knowledge to the team with a knowledge of data mapping, Development teams, and Architecture
- Strong communication and stakeholder management with a proven ability to understand stakeholder needs and influence decision-making at all levels within various contexts
- Agile and flexible in the management of own day-to-day workload with minimal guidance and supervision, high professional standards, and an awareness of impact beyond own team
- Able to deliver using an Agile mindset and methodologies
- Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
- We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer
- If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Cancer Research UK has an extensive technical estate that underpins the charity’s ability to deliver our vision and strategy
- The Business Analysis team play an essential role in our mission by bridging the gap between our technology department and the wider organisation
- The team ensure we maximise the value of all our technical resources while delivering operational transformation & management and an employee experience that enables us to be an inclusive, well-governed, agile, and sustainable organisation so that we can achieve our mission of beating cancer
- This involves championing innovation, providing analytical insight, and driving change across a range of products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters who raised £463m towards our life-saving research in 2023/24
- As a Lead Business Analyst, you will lead and coordinate the BA team and the wider technology directorate to deliver a range of large/complex technology and change projects whilst rotating across a range of products; ultimately improving our services and products for the charity’s supporters and staff
- This will involve partnering with stakeholders at all levels and the portfolio leadership team to ensure alignment with the technical needs of the charity and its strategic direction
- This is an opportunity for you to lead the development of our Business Analysis team by finessing existing practices and engaging with emerging techniques to improve our ways of working and ensure we deliver in an agile and value-focused way
- As a leading expert in the Business Analysis capability, you will drive a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement by mentoring and line-managing Business Analysts and Senior Business Analysts
- Line management and capability management:
- Line managing, leading, and developing an inclusive and high functioning team. As a line manager, you will be responsible for creating a positive culture which recognises success, rewards results, and develops and drives high performance to retain talent
- Collaborating with the capability Head to develop and agree on standard working practices and processes while ensuring end-to-end alignment and utilising Agile and Lean ways of working
- Proactively facilitating knowledge sharing within the team while leading on the optimisation of the capability, contributing to toolkits, and forming a culture of continuous improvement
- Maintaining an understanding of the capabilities, processes, and services which make up the Cancer Research UK business and technology landscape with an awareness of current and emerging technologies to ensure that compatible solutions are designed and re-used where suitable
- Business Analysis Practitioner:
- Partnering with stakeholders at all levels to understand the underlying needs of the business as a whole and its strategic direction
- Identifying and assessing strategic options for both technical and business suitability, ensuring solutions provide the highest benefit/ cost ratio, and using strong influencing skills when needed
- Collaborating with departments across the charity to ensure correlation between requirements, Information Architecture and User Experience, and reengineering processes to ensure alignment across teams
- Actively contributing to quarterly planning and prioritisation processes to ensure teams are focusing on areas that will provide the best value to the charity. When needed, also enabling the removal of any blockers hampering progress
- Developing a strong understanding of the business teams and their strategy and using this knowledge to influence decisions while representing both the business and technology appropriately
- Defining measures with the wider business to monitor the effectiveness of processes and enable greater efficiency. This will also involve assisting in the development of investment appraisals and providing decision support to ensure that the solutions designed deliver maximum value to the charity
- Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Application process
- End Date: December 14, 2024
- Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews
- Interview date: From the 02 January 2025
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 longstanding 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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Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Company values
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
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Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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