Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP / IBP / S&OP in Weybridge

Permanent position with a salary of approximately £90k - £95k, plus a £7.2k car allowance, up to 25% bonus, and benefits package.

Location: Weybridge, Surrey (Hybrid - 3 days per week onsite). Must be eligible to work in the UK.

About You

You will be an exceptional Senior Business Analyst with extensive Business Analysis and Business Partnering experience, along with a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing. You will thrive in stakeholder-facing environments, leading workshops, gathering requirements, and shaping future-state business processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Business Analysis activities across large-scale Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing transformation programmes.
• Play a key role across several strategic transformation programmes, including IBP, MES, and PLM initiatives.
• Continuous improvement across Planning, Manufacturing, and Quality Management capabilities.
• Involved from the early stages of programmes, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, defining future-state business processes, and helping shape solution design alongside senior business stakeholders and Solution Architects.
• Build strong business partnerships with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, and IT.
• Facilitate workshops, gather business requirements, and define future-state business processes.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Challenge existing processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Solution Architects and Technology teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Support multiple strategic transformation programmes across Europe.
• Drive the development of business cases, ensuring delivery of measurable business value.
• Lead system implementation activities, including Testing, User Acceptance, and Business Readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and third-party partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Manage and prioritise business change through governance forums.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to Business Analysts through either direct line management or matrix leadership.

Experience Required

• Significant Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments.
• Business Analysis experience from discovery and blueprinting through to implementation.
• Business Partnering with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing.
• Stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and requirements gathering.
• End-to-end Supply Chain lifecycle processes - ability to advise and consult.
• Planning, Manufacturing, and Quality Management business processes.
• SAP experience working within SAP ECC6 or SAP S/4HANA or SAP-enabled enterprise environments.
• SAP IBP, S&OP, or comparable Planning and Supply Chain solutions - SAP APO, Kinaxis, RapidResponse, OMP, Blue Yonder.
• Supporting SAP Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) would be highly advantageous.
• Collaborative approach and forward-thinking.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Retail, or other complex manufacturing environments is desirable.