At a Glance
- Tasks: Support complex programmes and transform initiatives in infrastructure and transportation sectors.
- Company: Join a global leader in sustainable design and consultancy with 34,000 passionate professionals.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Other info: Embrace diversity and inclusion while contributing to innovative solutions for global challenges.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimising processes and driving efficiency in meaningful projects.
- Qualifications: Experience in business analysis and process optimisation, especially in transportation sectors.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
As an Arcadian, you help deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
Arcadis is seeking a Business Analyst to support complex programmes and transformation initiatives across infrastructure and transportation sectors. Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, you will apply business analysis expertise to improve how programmes are planned, delivered, and controlled. This includes analysing and optimising business processes, enabling data‑driven decision‑making, and identifying opportunities for optimising data, technology, process, governance and culture within a project, programme or enterprise context to achieve sustainable performance improvement.
You will contribute structured insight, practical recommendations, and process improvements that enhance performance, governance, and value for money across client programmes.
Role Accountabilities
- Analyse and document current‑state processes to identify inefficiencies, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Design future‑state processes aligned to governance, data, and enterprise systems.
- Apply lean and continuous improvement principles to drive efficiency and consistency.
- Identify opportunities for improved data management, digital automation and improved productivity within business processes.
- Define data requirements and performance metrics to support reporting and decision‑making.
- Engage stakeholders across delivery, commercial, PMO, and digital teams to gather requirements and align solutions.
- Facilitate workshops and communicate process changes, risks, and benefits clearly.
- Support adoption of new processes and ways of working.
- Maintain clear process documentation and support governance and assurance activities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and benefits realisation across programmes.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience in business analysis, process optimisation, or business improvement within project or programme environments.
- Experience working in UK & Ireland transportation sectors (rail, highways, aviation, ports) or comparable sectors (other sector experience considered).
- Ability to analyse, design, and improve business processes and requirements.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills.
- Understanding of how processes support performance, controls, data quality, and decision‑making.
- Training / Background (one or more of the following): Project & programme management, NEC commercial / contract management, PMO / Project Controls plus business consultancy, digital transformation, or data analytics or equivalent demonstrable experience applying these disciplines within programme environments.
- Experience with process mapping tools (e.g. Visio) and structured analysis approaches.
- Interest in digital transformation, data‑driven working, and lean continuous improvement.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
Business Analyst employer: Poutrix
Arcadis is an exceptional employer that champions a culture of collaboration and innovation, empowering employees to tackle the world's most pressing challenges in sustainable design and engineering. With a commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, Arcadis fosters an environment where every voice is valued, offering extensive opportunities for professional growth and development within a global network of over 34,000 colleagues. Located in the UK & Ireland, this role as a Business Analyst not only allows you to contribute to impactful projects but also to thrive in a supportive workplace that prioritises employee well-being and continuous improvement.
