The energy industry is rapidly changing, underpinned by increased digitalisation and as the company responsible for powering everyday life for 8 million customers across 3.9 million homes and businesses in the North East, Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Northern Powergrid is at the forefront of delivering a power network that meets the region’s needs now and in the future. Our vision is to be the best energy company in serving our customers whilst delivering sustainable energy solutions as we support the region’s drive towards net zero emissions.
We are looking for a Business Analysis Manager to lead and grow our Business Analysis Centre of Excellence (BAcoE). This is a key leadership role, responsible for shaping high-quality analytical delivery across our change portfolio and driving the standards, capability and performance of our BA community.
If you are passionate about building high-performing teams, elevating business analysis practice and enabling organisational transformation, this is a great opportunity to make a real impact.
Along with a competitive salary of between £50,000 – £60,000, other benefits also include:
- Up to 15% annual performance bonus
- Annual leave of 25 days + bank holiday entitlement
- Enrolment into our Pension Scheme, with a generous company contribution (5% employee / 10% employer)
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead, mentor and empower a multi-layered team of Lead Business Analysts, Business Analysts and Trainees.
- Build a collaborative, high-performing BA Centre of Excellence, embedding best practice, methods and tools.
- Oversee workload planning, prioritisation and allocation of BA resources across programmes and projects.
Strategic & Operational Delivery
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality business analysis across all change initiatives, with outputs that are consistent, robust and aligned to project goals.
- Provide expert guidance across requirements gathering, process modelling, and solution evaluation.
- Act as a strategic partner to project managers, product owners and business leads – shaping scope, assessing impacts and validating business needs.
- Establish and maintain a robust quality assurance approach for BA artefacts, ensuring consistency with internal standards and frameworks.
- Support governance forums (e.g., change boards, architecture reviews, project gates) by ensuring BA deliverables are accurate, complete and decision-ready.
- Ensure the BA function adopts best practice methods consistent with enterprise architecture, service management and portfolio governance frameworks.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Previous experience in developing people and building a culture of continuous improvement, with a strong focus on uplifting capability and embedding excellence across the team.
- Proven leadership experience within complex change environments, with a strong track record of guiding business analysis functions and enabling high-quality delivery.
- Expertise across core BA disciplines including requirements gathering, business process design and solution evaluation, applying structured methodologies to drive clarity, alignment and successful outcomes.
- A proactive, influential and collaborative mindset, able to build strong stakeholder relationships and positively shape decision-making across a wide range of teams and seniority levels.
- Full UK driver’s license
- Experience supporting or leading business analysis within large-scale Oracle transformation programmes, including exposure to complex systems integrations, data migration, process redesign and organisational change.
- Generalist background with hands-on experience across Project Management, Product Management and data disciplines
Location: Shiremoor / Sunderland / Castleford
Applicants are considered on the basis of their suitability for the post irrespective of sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender re-assignment, race, age or disability, in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
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