Whether you’re talking about length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount or the brightness of light, the National Physical Laboratory sets the standards by which these things are all measured. As an organisation, we appreciate that change is essential to sustainable growth. As a Business Analyst, you’ll provide the data analysis and evaluation that helps us decide what ideas and innovations will bring us the greatest return, so that we’re always changing for the better. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways and you could too.

We’re constantly looking at ways to improve. You’ll analyse and audit data to highlight emerging trends and needs, then work with relevant stakeholders to decide which will add the greatest value and how we might go about it, formalising requirements, benefits and processes. You’ll then champion whatever change programme has been proposed, gaining buy-in across the business and producing progress reports to keep everyone on track. Responsible for driving best-practice, you’ll need to make sure your knowledge is always up-to-date. You’ll also support the transformation and change team as and when they need it. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of strategic research projects that provide new insights to strategy, business development or/and science research. This includes scoping, desktop research, engaging with internal and external stakeholders as well as synthesising and coming up with conclusions and recommendations.
• Conduct analytical desk research to pull together policy, market, high-level technical and scientific inputs and identify new insights and new challenges that relevant to NPL measurement science.
• Develop relationships and raise the profile of NPL in the Environment arena, such as organise external workshops, conduct interviews or surveys to identify, structure and validate new knowledge and/or viewpoint, in particular around measurement challenges..
• Support Strategic Business Development managers for knowledge and analytical content needs particularly in new funding streams and opportunities to NPL. Support opportunity realisation where possible.
• Support the Head of Challenge in the development and refinement of the challenge strategy.

Key Skills and Knowledge Required for the Role

• Delivery focused. Ability to efficiently manage multiple complex projects while focusing on activities that most critical for tangible value delivery.
• Strategic thinking. Seeing big picture.
• Analytical skills and critical thinking. Ability to learn, identify and analyse large amount of new information. Ability to synthesis, distil, structure, find trend and insight, sometimes from possibly incomplete data.
• Commercial/business knowledge and mind-set
• Leadership skills and team player. Ability to lead a project. Work with stakeholders with different background and level of experience.
• Strong communication skills. Verbal and written. Experience in producing reports, papers and other project-related, written delivery work.
• A degree in science preferred but experience in a scientific organisation is also acceptable.