About this job

We are a professional services and technology partner to global, defence, energy, space and intelligence & communications programmes. Because of our forward-thinking teams, mission-critical equipment operates effectively in the world’s most challenging environments. Whether sharing innovative solutions or manufacturing advanced systems, absolute trust is core to all we do. In addition to our Group head office made up of support roles we also have two core business streams which are:

• Technology & Engineering. Design, deliver and support high-integrity systems from our facilities in Portsmouth, Manchester and Melksham. Engineering teams apply advanced techniques to produce solutions for our customers which can be relied upon for long service life, in difficult or dangerous environments. These include: atmosphere control systems for nuclear submarines and thermal management systems for chemical processing and energy industries.
• Consulting and Programme Services (CaPS). Provide through life services to enable our clients to manage the evolution of their own systems and services, in their own domain. Leveraging our long heritage of experience of designing, delivering and supporting safety, mission and business critical systems, we provide individuals with domain leading knowledge, skills and experience who can work within client teams or take full responsibility for the delivery of outcomes.

Our people make us the successful company we are and have a TEAM TP Group culture. These values are:

• Achieve together
• Embrace responsibility
• Strive for excellence
• Build unity
• Challenge ourselves
• Have integrity in all we do

Responsibilities

The Role:

As a Business Analyst for TP Group, you will be providing the evidence to highly regulated/complex programmes delivering mission, business and safety critical solutions to make better decisions. This may be working in customer teams to support business cases with analytical thinking and outcomes, modelling of operational performance and sustainment, or leading workshops with customers and Subject Matter Experts to improve policies and planning processes.

What we are looking for:

The TP Group Operational Analysis team are looking for business analysts with a range of levels of experience, but not necessarily from within defence. We are interested in people who engage customers technically and personally, with the ability to apply their expertise to new situations and problems to provide analytical insight. We need people who work to improve themselves and others, and have the positive, flexible and self-motivated attitude necessary for working in a small company. Your work will support departmental policy, acquisition projects, ongoing operational efficiency, and business cases. You will present and engage with customers and stakeholders, and undertake a range of modelling and analysis.

Responsibilities will include:

• Delivering analytical consulting projects.
• Building new relationships and maintaining the relationships we have with our current customers.
• Using and developing problem structuring and analysis methods and a variety of tools and techniques, including novel approaches where required.
• Working organically in customer teams to deliver rapid turn-around analysis,or using one of the company’s offices as a team hub from which to plan and deliver tasks.
• Identifying and winning work within the Defence sector.

Profile

Expertise Required:

We are looking for a range of experience:

• Consultants: 1.5+ years’ experience, including delivering qualitative and/or quantitative business analysis;
• Senior Consultants: 5+ years’ experience, including delivering business analysis programmes, delivering innovative approaches, and / or winning work; and
• Principal Consultants: 8+ years’ experience, with extensive experience of leading business analysis, leading teams, developing and sharing skills, delivering innovative approaches and / or winning work.

Essential Requirements:

• Business Analysis to support decision-making, process or policy development, and / or research, including both problem structuring and mapping / modelling. Structuring information, drawing conclusions and making recommendations.
• Development and use of analytical methods and models.
• Building customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Supporting and leading authoring of technical reports and presenting to customers. Reporting appropriately for the audience: summarising complex information for high-level stakeholders, and writing detailed reports to transfer knowledge and context with the customer.
• Strong background in MS Office, especially Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Experience in one or more of the following technical disciplines:
  • Process and / or conceptual mapping (e.g. influence diagrams),
  • Statistical analysis, including the use of R, Tableau, PowerBI, QlikView, SAS or other analytics tool,
  • Simulation (System Dynamics, Discrete Event Simulation, AgentBased Modelling) or other business modelling,
  • Optimisation,
  • Designing and facilitating workshops and stakeholder interviews,
  • Data manipulation / cleansing and analysis languages (VBA, SQL, R,Python),
  • Cost analysis/estimation,
  • Portfolio, programme and project management (schedule and risk analysis, benefits realization, evidence management).
• Be willing to travel across UK and comfortable to work away from main sites for periods of time.

For more Senior positions, we expect some experience in the following:

• Leading diverse analytical teams of in-house and external experts, and advising other consultants and supporting when required on projects.
• Identifying and winning future work.
• Understanding of management structures, organisational design and governance.
• Strong knowledge of business cases, procurement considerations, and determining system influences and benefits.

Company benefits include:

• 25 days’ holiday
• Company pension scheme
• Free Parking

Other requirements:

• Candidates must have an existing right to live and work in the UK.
• Candidates will need to undergo an internal BPSS check prior to gaining site access.
• Candidates will also need to either hold a current SC clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check (SC level) upon starting their employment with the company. To gain SC clearance you will normally need at least 5 years’ UK residency.