Senior Business Analyst

Salary Band 11, £55,836 – £60,912 (Please note it is Northumbria Police policy to appoint at the beginning of the band)

Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station and homeworking

Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Hub as a Senior Business Analyst.

As a Senior Business Analyst you will lead the business analysis function, providing expert guidance and line management to a team of Business Analysts. You’ll shape and validate complex, strategic requirements, ensuring solutions align with organisational priorities and deliver real impact.

Driving continuous improvement and digital transformation, you’ll champion analytical excellence across the force, coordinate resources, and build capability within the team. You’ll also act as the senior escalation point for complex analytical and cross-functional challenges.

What you’ll do

• Lead, manage and develop the Business Analyst team, setting objectives, supporting wellbeing, and building capability through coaching and development.
• Oversee and prioritise BA workload across programmes and projects to ensure effective resource allocation and timely delivery.
• Establish and maintain high standards, templates and methodologies to ensure consistent, quality analytical outputs.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex analysis, risks and cross-functional issues, supporting resolution and decision-making.
• Lead the design and optimisation of end-to-end business processes, facilitating strategic workshops and aligning outcomes to organisational priorities.
• Drive root cause analysis and continuous improvement activity, ensuring insights translate into meaningful, embedded improvements.

What you’ll bring

• Degree educated (or equivalent) with proven experience leading and developing a Business Analyst team, alongside strong strategic analysis experience at organisational level.
• Extensive knowledge of IT service delivery, project management and emerging technologies, with experience in business case development, governance processes, and an understanding of National Enabling Programmes (NEP).
• Significant experience overseeing multiple programmes or portfolios, with a strong track record of quality assuring business cases, requirements and process documentation, and applying strategic insight to identify and maximise organisational and technological opportunities.
• Advanced ability to challenge strategic assumptions and risks, with strong expertise in benefits modelling, options appraisal, impact assessment, and designing future state operating models.
• Act as a proactive change agent, championing innovation and clearly demonstrating the value of emerging technologies across business functions.
• Experience representing organisations at regional/national level and contributing to cross force transformation, with a strong grasp of the policing digital landscape and its strategic impact.
• Proven change leader with strong strategic thinking, able to shape culture, influence ways of working, and identify long term organisational implications.

We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Senior Business Analyst with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview and presentation, scheduled for mid-July Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.

We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, working together to improve the lives of disabled employees. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.

If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via [email protected] for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.

Use of AI in Applications: At Northumbria Police, we embrace innovative technologies to enhance our recruitment process. We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While AI can be a valuable resource, we encourage applicants to ensure their submissions accurately reflect their personal qualifications, experiences, and skills. Our selection process includes thorough evaluations to verify the authenticity and suitability of all applications. We value genuine and thoughtful responses that showcase your unique strengths and perspectives.

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.