Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing SAP / IBP / S&OP

• Lead Business Analysis activities across large-scale Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing transformation programmes.
• Play a key role across several strategic transformation programmes, including IBP, MES & PLM initiatives.
• Continuous improvement across Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management capabilities.
• Involved from the early stages of programmes, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, defining future-state business processes and helping shape solution design alongside senior business stakeholders and Solution Architects.
• Build strong business partnerships with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing & IT.
• Facilitate workshops, gather business requirements and define future-state business processes.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
• Challenge existing processes & identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Solution Architects & Technology teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
• Support multiple strategic transformation programmes across Europe.
• Drive the development of business cases, ensuring delivery of measurable business value.
• Lead system implementation activities, including Testing, User Acceptance & Business Readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams & third-party partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Manage & prioritise business change through governance forums.
• Provide leadership, coaching & mentoring to Business Analysts - through either direct line management & matrix leadership.

You'll be an exceptional Senior Business Analyst with extensive Business Analysis & Business Partnering experience, together with a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing. You'll thrive in stakeholder-facing environments, leading workshops, gathering requirements & shaping future-state business processes. Gravitas & credibility to engage with senior stakeholders. Ability to lead Business Analysis activities across several strategic transformation programmes, helping shape future-state business processes from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation., * Significant Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments.

• Business Analysis experience from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.
• Business Partnering with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing.
• Stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation & requirements gathering.
• End-to-end Supply Chain lifecycle processes - ability to advise & consult.
• Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management business processes.
• SAP - experience working within SAP ECC6 or SAP S/4HANA or SAP-enabled enterprise environments.
• SAP IBP, S&OP, or comparable Planning & Supply Chain solutions - SAP APO, Kinaxis, RapidResponse, OMP, Blue Yonder.
• Supporting SAP Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) would be highly advantageous.
• Collaborative approach & forward-thinking.
• Excellent analytical & problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Retail or other complex manufacturing environments is desirable.