Location Croydon, Manchester, Sheffield. About the job Job summary As Lead Business Analyst, you''ll play a key role in this multi disciplinary team, shaping our early project lifecycle and benefits approach. The team identifies new opportunities, defines and delivers benefits across the project lifecycle and establishing a long term, sustainable automation and AI function for the department. You''ll develop tools and processes to support feasibility assessments, manage and track financial benefits throughout delivery, and ensure benefits are realised once solutions go live. You''ll also help build wider understanding of benefits management and create resources that support business leads outside technology when assessing changes to ways of working. A self starter, you''ll be confident managing a diverse range of stakeholders and leading the triage and benefits journey end to end. Job description A Lead Business Analyst will have a good understanding of strategic arenas, leading large/complex projects. Strong people management, mentoring and coaching skills. Able to develop best practice and assist with communities of practice. Ensuring outcomes are aligned to service vision/ business strategy by connecting the current/future business models whilst delivering future business architecture strategy. Support and inform iteration, evolution and optimisation. Strong stakeholder management skills, forming strategic relationships with senior stakeholders. Challenge constructively, a