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Posted Date:  12 Jun 2025
Posting End Date:  27 Jun 2025
Location:  Coventry
Company:  Severn Trent Water
Department:  Capital Design
Salary (£):  £46,000-£55,000

Business Analyst

 

Join Severn Trent’s Capital Design Team as a Business Analyst!

What do you get when you combine an award-winning, innovative water company with over 300 dedicated team members? Severn Trent’s Capital Design team!

 

Our ambitious five-year programme, encompassing over 5,000 innovative projects, is designed to tackle the growing challenges of delivering exceptional water and waste services. We are committed to addressing issues such as flooding and river health, ensuring the best outcomes for our customers and the environment. With our dedicated in-house design team, we are poised to achieve outstanding results and make a significant impact.

 

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

 

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Business Analyst. In this role, you’ll work with key internal partners across Severn Trent to deliver challenging digital transformation programmes, including AI, legacy systems decommissioning, new digital systems for capital design and delivery, software projects, and Agile/Scrum methodologies. We’re looking for the successful candidate to be responsible for the documentation and analysis of your work-stream, utilising Agile and Scrum methodologies to enhance project delivery.

 

You’ll travel and work at various sites/locations across the Severn Trent Water Region, attending team meetings where required and supporting local teams in implementing change programmes, including being flexible with working hours.

 

Other key accountabilities:

 

  • Be directly responsible/accountable for delivery of projects in your work-stream. Digital transformation currently includes embedding new technology initiatives like AI, legacy systems decommissioning, new digital systems, software projects.
  • Gather and analyse business requirements, translating them into detailed functional specifications for digital transformation initiatives.
  • Conduct process mapping, wireframing, and data analysis to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization within the organization.
  • Utilize UML (Unified Modeling Language) to create detailed models and diagrams that represent business processes and system functionalities.
  • Recommend corrective action as appropriate so that projects are sustained and implemented, working within the agreed decision-making process/project governance arrangements - reporting progress, risk, and issues to programme leadership and senior stakeholders to the defined standard.
  • Manage the work and priorities of the allocated Work-stream resources throughout the project lifecycle, defining appropriate activities to ensure that the project delivers to quality, time, and cost criteria.
  • Ensure that project and change benefits are correctly identified and monitored and a framework is in place to drive and deliver sustainable change.
  • Assimilate information relevant to the change activity, analyse and then apply it to the project delivery as appropriate.

 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

 

  • Experience of leading business change projects utilizing knowledge of the project life cycle with a proven track record of delivering sustainable change and associated benefits.
  • Delivering change in a matrix-managed ‘one team’ approach with colleagues from Technology, Commercial, Chief Engineer, and other departments.
  • Experience of taking strategic ideas and turning them into tactical projects to be delivered.
  • Excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate, engage, and challenge stakeholders at all levels in an appropriate and constructive way - adjusting the message accordingly to fit the audience.
  • A full UK driving licence will be required.

 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU  

 

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live. 

 

With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:

  • 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)  
  • Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)  
  • Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)  
  • Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate  
  • Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’  
  • Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers  
  • Family friendly policies  
  • Two volunteering days per year  

 

At Severn Trent, you’ll be joining a culture that cares, one that works together to achieve, grow, and develop. And when it comes to our employee engagement scores – they’re some of the highest of energy and utility companies globally and we believe that is down to our wonderful culture, created by our wonderful people.

 

We can’t wait to hear from you.  

 

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. We’ll always let you know the outcome of your application after the closing date too - so keep an eye on your phone and emails.

 

And, if your curiosity has peaked and you want to find out even more, search #LifeAtSevernTrent on social media.

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