Lead Business Analyst

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Set direction, manage resourcing, and ensure quality analysis across the Business Analysis function.
• Coach and mentor colleagues; use OKRs, KPIs, AI capability, and leadership methods to improve delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement, remove blockers, and promote innovation and product ways of working.
• Lead remediation of complex delivery issues or establish product delivery teams on sound foundations.
• Manage Business Analysts, including deployment, performance, and inclusive leadership.
• Support senior leadership across people, financial, commercial, and risk matters where appropriate.
• Support transformation to product ways of working, align standards and tooling, and promote the Business Analysis profession.

Person specification

• Lead the Business Analysis function and coach and mentor teams and colleagues.
• Directly manage Business Analysts, deploy resources, manage performance, and set direction inclusively.
• Support senior leadership and business transformation activities.
• Build relationships across guilds and the wider Business Analysis community; promote shared standards and tooling.

Working pattern and contract

• The advert states the role is permanent.
• The advert lists full-time, part-time, flexible working, and job-share patterns; it does not specify one exclusive pattern.

Location

• Advertised location options include Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stratford, Telford, and Worthing.
• Newcastle upon Tyne and Stratford are restricted to eligible existing HMRC staff, subject to the stated location conditions. No remote or hybrid policy is specified.

Compensation

• Advertised salary range is £71,725–£87,612, with national and London pay ranges; external applicants join at the pay-band minimum.
• Salary cadence is not stated.