Job Description

The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: IT Business Analyst
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
Are you a proficient IT Business Analyst who aims to implement vital projects and optimize business systems? Do you thrive on addressing complex challenges, translating requirements into effective solutions, and driving transformation across global operations?
Our team is seeking a skilled IT Business Analyst to join their innovative and growing function. In this role, you'll play a pivotal part in major projects, including ERP, MES, and new system implementations, ensuring our technology and processes evolve to meet the needs of an internationally expanding business.
What you'll be doing

• Managing the analysis, design, and testing phases of key IT projects, including ERP, MES, DRM, and other enterprise systems.
• Working closely with stakeholders to capture, document, and translate business requirements into effective solutions.
• Acting as the bridge between business and IT teams, ensuring solutions align with the Target Operating Model and IT strategy.
• Creating process models, specifications, diagrams, and supporting documentation to guide project teams and developers.
• Supporting the delivery of projects in a constantly evolving environment, managing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• Ensuring solutions are implemented on time, to quality standards, and within agreed budgets.
• Contributing to the development and standardisation of business analysis practices within the team.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams across UK and international sites, including occasional travel.

What you'll bring

• Experience as an IT Business Analyst, leading large-scale systems projects (e.g., ERP, MES, WMS, HR, Payroll, Process Control).
• Strong understanding of business analysis methods, with experience in requirement gathering, process mapping, and solution design.
• Direct experience with project delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches).
• Proficient in conveying information and collaborating with senior stakeholders and end users alike.
• A curious and detail-oriented mindset paired with an effective problem-solving strategy.
• Ability to work across multiple projects in a fast-changing environment with minimal supervision.
• Ideally, exposure to manufacturing or process industries and knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics (D365FO, Dynamics AX).
• Holder of at least two of the following BCS qualifications:

- BCS Foundation - Business Analysis Foundation
- BCS Practitioner - Business Analysis Practice
- BCS Practitioner - Modelling Business Processes
- BCS Practitioner - Requirements Engineering
Location
Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture.
About Us
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We're AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we're passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we'd love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can - it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we'll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive - or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won't affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don't accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
Questions about this role?
If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Taylor Waldon via .
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Location
IT Business Analyst
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Type
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