At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead business analysis and change across major transformations, shaping strategies and outcomes.
- Company: Join a diverse and inclusive community focused on delivering top-notch resourcing solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with significant influence over strategic decision-making.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving change and improving service performance.
- Qualifications: Extensive experience in business analysis and transformation, with strong leadership skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
The Principal Business Analyst / Head of Business Change provides leadership for business analysis and change across programmes, portfolios or major service transformations. The role shapes how value is defined, how change is designed and how benefits are sustained in operation, ensuring a clear line of sight from strategic intent to service performance and continual improvement.
How the Role Contributes Across Think / Plan / Do / Run
- Think: sets the analysis and change strategy, leading definition of outcomes, benefits frameworks, strategic priorities and value propositions
- Plan: oversees the use of user journeys, value streams, target operating models, service design and governance to shape deliverable change
- Do: assures implementation, service transition, readiness, sequencing and organisational adoption across multiple workstreams
- Run: ensures performance measures, service management disciplines and improvement mechanisms are embedded into live services and governance
Key Responsibilities
- Set the approach for business analysis and business change across major transformation activity
- Lead executive workshops, stakeholder engagement and decision support
- Define benefits, outcomes, risks, assumptions and measures of success
- Oversee user-centred design, service design and organisational impact analysis
- Shape SIAM-related roles, responsibilities and governance arrangements where relevant
- Assure service transition, change readiness and operating model adoption across programmes
- Lead capability development, quality standards and mentoring across the BA/BC community
- Support customers with prioritisation, sequencing and strategic decision-making
Typical Deliverables / Outputs
- Analysis and business change strategies
- Enterprise or programme-level benefits frameworks
- Executive reports and decision support papers
- Target operating model and service design inputs
- Governance models and integrated ways of working
- Transformation roadmaps and prioritised change portfolios
- Change readiness and transition assurance outputs
- Capability standards, methods and templates
Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience leading business analysis and business change in complex transformation settings
- Deep understanding of benefits realisation, user-centred design, service design and organisational change
- Strong knowledge of service management disciplines, including service transition, service improvement and service integration
- Experience shaping SIAM or multi-supplier governance environments
- Strong strategic thinking with practical delivery credibility
- Able to influence senior stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary teams
Behaviours / Ways of Working
- Strategic but grounded
- Confident, credible and pragmatic
- Builds trust quickly
- Makes complexity understandable
- Balances challenge with collaboration
- Focused on sustainable outcomes and operational credibility
Level of Autonomy and Influence
Works with broad organisational direction and has significant influence over programme, portfolio or enterprise-level analysis and change activity. Advises senior stakeholders, shapes decision-making and leads communities of practice.
Indicative Measures of Success
- Creates clear alignment between strategy, delivery and service performance
- Enables better decision-making at leadership level
- Improves the maturity and consistency of analysis and change capability
- Ensures transformation outcomes are measurable, adoptable and sustainable
- Builds customer confidence in the change and service approach
Reasonable Adjustments: Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.
Head of Business Change (eDV) in Cheltenham employer: Sanderson Government & Defence
As a Python Developer at our company, you will thrive in a dynamic and inclusive work environment that values diversity and fosters collaboration. We offer competitive benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and a culture that encourages innovation and autonomy, all while being part of a team dedicated to delivering exceptional resourcing solutions. Join us in a location that not only supports your career aspirations but also champions respect and equality for all employees.
Contact Details:
Sanderson Government & Defence Recruitment Team
