Senior Business Analyst - ToM in Newcastle upon Tyne

About the role... Working within our Target Operating Model team, reporting to Lead Business Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting Homes England's strategic transformation agenda as part of our Integrated Change Programme. You'll join a small but highly skilled and collaborative team, focused on shaping and delivering Homes England's future ways of working and Target Operating Model.

The team believe in creating an environment where innovation, challenge and collaboration thrive. They value diversity of thought and experience, encouraging colleagues to bring fresh perspectives that help solve complex business challenges and drive better outcomes across the organisation. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future direction of a national organisation with a strong social purpose.

Working closely with senior stakeholders across Homes England, you will support the design and implementation of strategic business transformation initiatives, helping to define future operating models, business capabilities and processes that improve organisational effectiveness and customer outcomes. The role goes beyond traditional business analysis, offering the opportunity to work at a strategic level across business architecture and operating model design.

You will lead discovery activities, facilitate stakeholder workshops and translate strategic objectives into practical, sustainable solutions that support long-term organisational change. Alongside delivering key transformation initiatives, you'll also contribute to the development of business analysis best practice across Homes England.

About you… You'll be comfortable working in complex and evolving environments, bringing structure, insight and clarity where requirements or solutions are not yet fully defined. You will have significant experience leading business analysis activities on large-scale transformation programmes, including the design and implementation of Target Operating Models and future-state business processes.

Delivering transformational change requires resilience, adaptability and strong stakeholder management skills. You'll be confident engaging with and influencing senior leaders, constructively challenging existing ways of working and building consensus across multidisciplinary teams. Your decisions and recommendations will be informed by a strong understanding of organisational strategy, operational effectiveness and the wider impact of business change.

As an experienced Business Analysis professional, you'll have a proven ability to translate strategic objectives into business capabilities, process improvements, requirements and measurable outcomes. You'll enjoy working collaboratively, coaching others and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and inclusion. Whether working within Agile, Waterfall or blended delivery environments, you'll be motivated by the opportunity to shape meaningful change and deliver lasting benefits for Homes England.

Who are we? Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency. We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities. Our people remain at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to building an Agency that not only reflects the diverse communities we serve, but also champions inclusion in how we shape homes and places across the country.

You will be required to have the Right to Work in the UK and Homes England do not offer visa sponsorship. If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your Right to Work in the UK at this stage.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.