Senior Business/Product Analyst Job in Berkshire, Home Counties Uk

Senior Business/Product Analyst

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and proactive senior product analyst to work for a business services Company and a leading provider of transaction processing solutions. This company operates on a global scale by connecting buyers and sellers in over 160 countries through traditional online and corporate channels.
The Senior Product Analyst is assigned the responsibility for managing global products with significant associated revenue and will also take responsibility for leading other Analysts to ensure coordinated work effort for a given product.
This is an exciting and diverse role for a product analyst to work with external customers to provide expertise throughout the product lifecycle to ensure it delivers the benefits of the business case and meets market requirements.
This role, you will be responsible for the design, development and delivery of the product and you must be able to lead and influence across functional team to ensure product meets the market requirements; achieves financial objectives and delivers operational value to the customer.
You will be expected to provide competitive analysis, and all costs associated with the designing, development and deployment of the product.
This will require creating and maintaining a product roadmap that can illustrate and communicate product strategy and how this will mature and envelope to provide the customers with operational value.
Collecting, understanding, and writing the business requirements for the product, and translating these into functional specifications and use cases
To provide the link between the customer, development team and any third party regarding software functionality, throughout the development lifecycle
Day to day analysis and management of change requests in relation to the project plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met

Ability to perform and assist in UAT

Attend customer briefings, trade and travel industry bodies representing the company and its interests

Developing and writing market requirements documents

Conducting competitive analysis Analyzing and writing user scenarios / stories for agile development methodologies

Role Requirements

Demonstrated success of defining, developing and deploying products
Extensive experience in a job managing product development
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Graduate Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred) or equivalently qualified by experience
Formal training/qualification or demonstrate able experience of new product commercialization
Must be able to travel 40% of the time including global travel
Demonstrable track record of analyzing market requirements and defining product requirements
Experience in a software product management role in a global organization, but not essential
Extensive experience within the travel industry