About the company
Springer Nature provides books, journals, platforms, and technology solutions to researchers, educators, clinicians, and other professionals. Its publications and solutions help communities find, verify, understand, and use knowledge.
Responsibilities
•Lead discovery and business analysis across strategic, transformational, and portfolio initiatives
•Frame complex business challenges by identifying root causes, defining desired outcomes, and establishing a vision for change
•Translate strategic objectives into actionable recommendations, opportunities, and initiatives
•Apply systems thinking to understand organisational, process, data, and technology interdependencies
•Analyse risks, dependencies, costs, benefits, and trade-offs to support decision-making
•Document current-state processes and models to identify inefficiencies and gaps
•Develop understanding of new business domains, operating models, and technology landscapes
•Align recommendations and initiatives with measurable business, customer, and employee outcomes
•Facilitate discovery, assessment, and prioritisation to define initiatives and investment cases
•Develop and present investment cases covering strategic alignment, expected value, risks, costs, and benefits
•Support portfolio decisions by analysing dependencies, constraints, risks, and opportunities
•Identify ways to optimise portfolio investments through technology rationalisation and simplification
•Guide business owners through governance and investment processes for business-led technology initiatives
•Ensure discovery outputs and recommendations consider governance, architecture, security, data protection, accessibility, and operational standards
•Ensure proposed initiatives define future process ownership, operational responsibilities, governance expectations, and success measures before investment decisions
•Ensure expected benefits and success measures are defined and traceable throughout initiative lifecycles
•Partner with technical subject matter experts to explore and evaluate solution options
•Support vendor assessments through structured analysis of costs, benefits, risks, and capabilities
•Lead or support technology due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments
•Assess target organisations' application landscapes, technology capabilities, risks, and integration considerations
•Support post-acquisition integration planning and value realisation
•Build trusted relationships across business and technology functions
•Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and decision forums to create alignment
•Communicate complex concepts, risks, and trade-offs clearly to audiences at all organisational levels
•Influence stakeholders without direct authority through evidence, facilitation, and structured analysis
•Mentor and support Business Analysts through coaching, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback
•Select and adapt business analysis techniques, models, and facilitation methods to context, complexity, and stakeholder needs
•Contribute to the evolution of Business Analysis standards and capability development
•Build understanding of the company's strategy, governance processes, and technology landscape
•Establish stakeholder relationships across business, technology, and architecture teams
•Produce high-quality analysis outputs, process models, and recommendations
•Lead end-to-end discovery, analysis, and option evaluation for complex, ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives
•Contribute to investment decisions by developing evidence-based business cases and presenting complex analysis clearly to decision-makers
•Help teams navigate ambiguity and reach decisions
•Influence investment, portfolio, and technology decisions through high-quality analysis
•Contribute to due diligence, integration, or transformation work with measurable outcomes
•Demonstrate business value through improved investment decisions, reduced uncertainty, clearer options analysis, and stronger alignment between business and technology outcomes
Requirements
•Degree in business, finance, or technology, or equivalent practical experience
•5+ Years of experience as a Business Analyst
•Excellent written and spoken English
•Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
•Experience creating business cases and business requirements documentation
•Solid business acumen and knowledge of IT operations, information security, business systems, and digital product development
•Experience delivering change through global, cross-functional initiatives using multiple project methodologies
•Strong collaboration, communication, presentation, negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills
•Ability to work independently, take initiative, and stay organised and detail-oriented
•Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and distributed, multi-time-zone stakeholder groups
•Experience driving continuous improvement and innovation across teams
Nice to have
•Knowledge of the M&A process, including due diligence, valuation, and negotiation
Conditions
No conditions specified in the posting.
