Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Salary: £34,320 - £42,000 per annum

Hours per week: 35 (flexible working options considered in line with business needs)

Location: At IOSH, we embrace hybrid working because we believe it's the key to achieving work-life balance, strategic success and fostering our collaborative culture. You’ll be required to work from our head office in Wigston, Leicester a minimum of 2 days per week. The remainder of your working hours will be undertaken from home.

Closing date: 2 September 2026

Interview date: w/c 7 September 2026

About the role

Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of IOSH? We're looking for a dynamic individual who thrives on strategic thinking and long-term growth. In this role, you’ll use your sharp analytical expertise and business insight to drive impactful changes. You’ll be at the forefront of identifying new opportunities, navigating risks with precision, and fostering cross-functional collaboration to bring teams together in pursuit of shared success.

In this role, you will act as the key link between business stakeholders, project teams, and external partners, ensuring business needs are understood and translated into clear, actionable requirements. Working across multiple business functions, you will lead business requirements discovery activities, facilitating stakeholder engagement to identify, analyse, prioritise, and document business needs. You will develop and maintain comprehensive requirements catalogues that support informed decision-making, business process improvement, solution evaluation, and successful project delivery. Clear communication is essential as you will produce high-quality documentation and present these findings and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels, and build consensus across teams to support successful business change initiatives.

If you're passionate about driving meaningful change, building collaborative partnerships, and contributing to the ongoing evolution of IOSH, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make a lasting impact.

What you'll bring

You will be an experienced Business Analyst with a strong track record of working with diverse stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into well-defined requirements. You will bring experience of requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation and management. You will have exceptional communication skills enabling you to facilitate workshops, interviews and stakeholder discussions to help understand and identify business needs and priorities across multiple business functions. You will be confident using these needs to analyse and develop business requirements catalogue, and have experience supporting business change. You will have strong stakeholder management skills enabling you to engage and influence colleagues at all levels, and work collaboratively across different teams across the business.

Essential criteria

·       Proven experience working in a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst role.

·       Proven experience producing, analysing, documenting, and managing business requirements across multiple business functions.

·       Experience of business process mapping, analysis, and process improvement.

·       Proven experience in developing, analysing, and producing business requirements across multiple business functions.

What's in it for you?

We support our colleagues to bring their best selves to work, so they can deliver exceptional outcomes. We do this by offering a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Hybrid working and flexibility to ensure a positive work-life balance
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service, with the option to buy more
• Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan covered by IOSH
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme, minimum of 3% employee contribution whilst IOSH contribute 5%
• Individual performance related pay scheme
• Up to five paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your dependent's wellbeing

About us

The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is the world’s Chartered body for safety and health professionals.

We understand that diversity of thought, culture, perspective, and background is essential to our vision. We believe in creating a personal environment where everyone is treated as they wish to be treated. At IOSH, you can be yourself, no matter who you are.

We are proud to be a disability confident employer, and are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.

Find out more about how we advocate for, and support health and safety professionals worldwide to create a safer and healthier world of work by visiting www.iosh.com.

How to apply To apply, you'll need an up to date CV and some additional time to complete the application questions so we can find out more about you and your experience. Just click on the apply button below.

If you want to find out more about IOSH please visit our website. If you have any queries about the role or require any reasonable adjustments to support you with the recruitment process please reach out to people@iosh.com.

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 to avoid disappointment.