About the Role
Senior Business Analyst with e-commerce experience wanted to be a key part of the team, taking the initiative in ensuring the business needs of our client are fully documented, understood and met by the proposed solution.
Responsibilities
- Gather and document complex requirements and translate them into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Plan, run and facilitate workshops, and assess source documentation from the customer.
- Manage, guide and support other BAs on your project or in the wider team.
- Identify and recommend options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability.
- Create logical and innovative solutions to complex problems.
- Present proposals to clients.
- Manage a scrum / delivery team through to go live.
- Analyze business systems in order to recommend efficiencies.
- Provide estimates for analysis and project work in conjunction with Project / Programme managers.
- Communicate and collaborate with developers, testers and a variety of end users to ensure all solutions deliver customer satisfaction.
- Provide training to users of a new system as required.
- Plan and work flexibly and support other BAs to meet deadlines.
- Keep up to date with technical and industry sector advances and share knowledge.
- Maintain great client and internal stakeholder relationships at all levels of the organisation.
- Maintain consistently high levels of client satisfaction and effectively escalate business critical situations.
- Manage situations and problems internally and externally.
Requirements
- Extensive experience working as a Senior Business Analyst on large ecommerce or digital experience projects.
- Experience coordinating and delivering Discovery workshops.
- Experience delivering requirements for eCommerce projects.
- Experience of working supplier side and managing client stakeholders and 3rd parties.
- Able to plan, and run large workshops with senior client stakeholders and manage senior stakeholders effectively.
- Highly proactive, talented, enthusiastic, focused, eye for detail, professional.
- Keen to learn and to challenge for smarter ways of doing things; a team player proud of their work who wants to share it.
- Happy working at client locations when needed.
- Experience of Agile software delivery.
- Business Process mapping and engineering experience.
- Retail / brand experience.
- Production of high quality user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Analysis and design of systems (package integration and bespoke development).
- Ability to work on your own initiative to an agreed action plan.
- Strong communication skills - requires a high level of communication, interpersonal, influencing and presentation skills.
- Strong problem solving, time management and organisational skills.
- Strong commercial awareness and business acumen.
- Energetic, enthusiastic with strong attention to detail.
Skills
- e-commerce
- Agile software delivery
- Business Process mapping
- Business Process engineering
- Retail
- Brand experience
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
- System analysis
- System design
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Influencing skills
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Organisational skills
- Commercial awareness
- Business acumen
Location
- London
Work Type
- Contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Scrum Master qualification (bonus)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (bonus)
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with exciting brands.
- Prioritised career development.
- Help to grow skills.
- Empowerment to make a difference.
- Allowing you to be yourself.
- Respect for who you are.
About the Company
- WPP Enterprise Solutions designs, builds, and operates the growth systems that competitive businesses rely on.
- We lead clients in business transformation and marketing modernization, connecting strategy directly to execution.
- Our 12,000 experts in engineering and platforms, commerce, consulting, content transformation, CRM, and CX work within a unified global operating unit across 40+ markets.
- WPP Enterprise Solutions works alongside best-in-class partners including Adobe, AWS, Braze, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Shopify, as well as innovators in AI, to deliver growth solutions tailored to the needs of our clients’ businesses.
- VML, part of WPP, supports WPP Enterprise Solutions by helping brands activate transformation through creativity and experience.
- WPP Enterprise Solutions is one of the four main operating pillars of WPP (the world’s largest advertising and communications company).
- WPP Enterprise Solutions functions as the business transformation and consulting arm that connects marketing strategy directly to execution.
- Agentic and Generative AI: Operationalising production-grade AI at scale to optimize customer experiences and marketing workflows.
- Digital Commerce and Mobile Technology: Building platforms that handle global-scale commerce.
- Customer Experience (CX) & CRM: Orchestrating end-to-end CX and CRM and loyalty systems that humanise relationships between brands and consumers.
- Content and Data: Developing unified technology solutions that deliver high-impact content at scale.
- WPP Enterprise Solutions unifies over 10,000 technology and business transformation experts globally.
- Operating across more than 40 markets across North America, Latin America, EMEA, and APAC.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
- With exceptional talent, trusted data and intelligence and world-class partnerships – all united by our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open – we help clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
- Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.
- We lead with Heart, fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
- We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
- We champion Courage, inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
Equal Opportunity
- WPP (VML/WPP Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
