Senior Business Analyst
ScottishPower HQ, Glasgow (hybrid)
Salary starting from £48,400 + up to 10% bonus & private health cover
Closing date- 27th of February 2026
Help us create a better future, quicker
As a Senior Business Analyst within the Digital Planning, Culture & Practices Team, you will lead critical initiatives that drive digital transformation across the organisation. You will apply advanced analytical skills and strategic thinking to optimise complex business processes, define requirements for enterprise-level solutions, and ensure seamless integration of emerging technologies.
You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing decision-making and shaping digital strategies that align with organisational objectives. Your role will involve leading workshops, mentoring junior analysts, and contributing to governance frameworks that underpin successful transformation.
Your work will enable data-driven decisions, deliver measurable efficiency gains, and support the organisation’s long-term digital roadmap.
What you’ll be doing
- Strategic Process Optimisation: Lead identification and implementation of advanced process improvements, leveraging automation and digital tools to deliver measurable efficiency gains
- Executive-Level Insights: Provide high-quality analysis and recommendations to senior leadership, including impact assessments and strategic options
- Stakeholder Leadership: Facilitate complex workshops with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment of requirements with organisational priorities
- Enterprise Documentation: Develop comprehensive artefacts including process maps, technical specifications, and solution blueprints for enterprise-wide initiatives
- Technology Integration Leadership: Define and validate technical requirements for large-scale systems, ensuring robust integration and compliance with architecture standards
- Digital Strategy Alignment: Partner with senior stakeholders to shape digital transformation strategies and influence prioritisation of initiatives
- Change Leadership: Support organisational change by designing training frameworks and leading adoption strategies for new technologies
- Roadmap Ownership: Contribute to and maintain multi-year digital transformation roadmaps, including milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation plans
- Solution Evaluation: Lead feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyses for complex digital solutions, providing clear recommendations for investment decisions
- Budget & Compliance Oversight: Monitor budgets for strategic initiatives and ensure adherence to regulatory, security, and governance standards
What you’ll bring
- Advanced Process Analysis: Proven expertise in Lean Six Sigma, value stream mapping, and automation design
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to influence senior stakeholders and align initiatives with organisational goals
- Complex Requirement Management: Skilled in eliciting, validating, and prioritising requirements for enterprise-scale solutions
- Feasibility & ROI Analysis: Strong experience in developing business cases and impact assessments for multi-million-pound initiatives
- Communication Excellence: Exceptional ability to convey complex concepts to executive and technical audiences
- Modelling & Visualisation: Advanced proficiency in modelling tools and data visualisation techniques
- Stakeholder Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage diverse stakeholder groups and resolve conflicts effectively
- Mentorship: Experience in coaching junior analysts and promoting best practices
- Adaptability & Resilience: Ability to thrive in dynamic environments and manage competing priorities
- Business Acumen: Deep understanding of digital technologies, transformation frameworks, and enterprise architecture principles
Minimum Criteria
- Experience: Minimum 7–10 years in business analysis or related roles, with significant exposure to digital transformation programmes
- BA Practice Development: Experience in establishing, growing, or maturing a Business Analysis capability—including defining standards, best practices, frameworks, tooling, and governance that support consistent high‑quality delivery across programmes.
- Process Optimisation Expertise: Advanced knowledge of Lean Six Sigma and automation principles
- Strategic Delivery: Proven track record of delivering complex initiatives with measurable business outcomes
- Technical Integration: Experience working with enterprise IT teams on large-scale system implementations
- Digital Strategy Contribution: Demonstrated ability to shape and influence digital roadmaps
- Leadership: Experience in mentoring and leading analysis teams
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Schemes
- Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
- Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
- Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
- Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
- Life Assurance (4x salary)
- Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why ScottishPower
ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].
Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
February-27-2026
