Agile Business Analyst Manchester, England
Job description
What if your expertise could help someone, somewhere, to live a better life?
Helping children living with juvenile idiopathic arthritis to communicate their pain, giving people with psoriasis their confidence back, shocking 2.3 million HCPs into taking action against second heart attacks to proving to the world that eczema isn’t a skin condition.
Havas Lynx Group is a creative communications agency dedicated to changing the way the world does healthcare communications for the better. We are committed to bringing about change. Change informed by experience, driven by innovation and proven in delivery. We work alongside healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and pharmaceutical brands to overcome the complex challenges of modern healthcare. Our work blends strategic insight and deep scientific understanding with creativity and digital innovation, delivering healthcare campaigns and solutions that really make a difference to people’s lives.
We’re a team of over 500+ people in Manchester and London, with a history of over 35 years and an ever-evolving future. You can get a feel for the #LYNXLife via YouTube, #LYNXLife playlist, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Everything this company achieves, every life it saves, every penny it makes, every policy it changes, every award it wins, is down to everyone that works here.
Our Role
As an Agile Business Analyst at the Havas Lynx Group, you will have already established yourself as someone who understand the importance of requirements capture and translation and can easily apply requirements gathering techniques to elicit specifications from client and agency partners to ensure the smooth handover and implementation phase of any project.
You will be a true interlocator between commercial objectives and technical requirements, with a keen eye for detail and a desire to ensure all avenues are explored and outlined.
What you can expect to be doing:
- Lead conversations with multiple departments (UX, Design, CX Strategy, tech, client) in order to understand complexity and priority of requirements and shape the appropriate approach for development
- Work closely with development partners in order to prioritise and plan project delivery and sprint cycles in a composable, iterative fashion, ensuring ultimate product integrity as standard
- Work with more junior team members to ensure backlogs are maintained and specifications are kept up to date for the products you work on by employing a documentation-first approach to your work
What we’d like to see from you:
- Have a good understanding of Gherkin and Cucumber syntax when composing user acceptance criteria, ensuring that stories are solution-agnostic and driven by stakeholder needs
- The ability to gather requirements proficiently, employing a variety of differing techniques
- Ability to structure complex information in a logical and accessible way
- Financially and commercially aware
- Working effectively and collaboratively as part of a team
- Adept presentation skills
- Proficient organisation of work and self
What you can expect from us
A supportive and challenging environment in which you will have the opportunity to learn, grow, and make an impact that matters. We put a huge investment into #LYNXLife and our #LXAcademy internal programmes. It’s a unique initiative that aims to reward hard work, reduce pressures, and ensure that we can all enjoy our time at Lynx. Our strategy is to build capabilities internally and inspire the best talent, so we can continue to deliver on our mission.
You can also expect a whole host of benefits, including:
- Hybrid Working
- Starting holiday allowance of 28 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, with increasing allowance connected to length of service
- Option to buy, carry or sell holidays
- Early Friday finish throughout the year
- Seasonal working hours
- Enhanced family leave, pay and return to work benefit scheme
- Extensive L&D support
- Sabbatical opportunities
- Season ticket interest free loans for travel
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance (4x salary)
- Company pension scheme
- Fully compensated company events
- Volunteer days
- Wellbeing programme including sports clubs, discounted gym memberships, free onsite flu vaccinations, extended lunch breaks on Wellness Wednesdays and much more
- +Medicash healthcare benefit
- 24/7 access to a free, confidential and independent Employee Assistance Programme
Get in touch to find out how we can make an impact that matters together.
