Lead Business Analyst in Leeds

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for a Lead Business Analyst to support our mission. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.

As a Lead Business Analyst, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team combining data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. You will act as a Lead Consultant to deliver Business Analysis services to our clients. You will be a pro at understanding business needs, a confident manager of people, and a champion for designing services with users in mind. You will lead teams through complex challenges, ensuring our methods are consistent and our goals are aligned.

Your Role in a Nutshell:

• Take the lead in investigating complex challenges and figuring out the best ways to solve them for our services.
• Lead workshops with teams and stakeholders to agree on clear goals and solutions.
• Build and maintain strong, long-lasting relationships with our clients and stakeholders.
• Directly manage, coach, and support other Business Analysts to help them grow their skills.
• Work with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to plan and keep track of what the team will work on.
• Take a leading role in shaping Hippo's Business Analyst community by sharing good ideas and contributing to our blogs or events.

Essential Experience:

• Extensive experience leading how teams think about problems, guiding information gathering, and coming to conclusions across a whole service.
• Proven ability to lead the way in deciding how to figure out project requirements and guiding the team on who to talk to.
• Experience coaching and guiding other Business Analysts on the best ways to design products with the user in mind.
• Expertise in using and coaching others on various visual tools (modelling) to show how things work and how to improve processes.
• Experience managing work by focusing on client needs and ensuring solutions meet those needs across multiple products.

Desirable Experience:

• Ability to quickly shift your thinking approach if project discussions change.
• Experience finding, researching, and using new analysis techniques without needing guidance.
• Proven ability to encourage open communication within a team to help everyone feel responsible and connected.

Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on top of a competitive salary, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
• 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of: Private health cover, Private dental cover, Additional company pension contributions, Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days), Wellbeing contribution, Charity contributions, Tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo:

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture.

Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hippo Locations:

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week.