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Junior Data Analyst
Newto Training
Multiple locations
Remote or hybrid
Junior
Private salary

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Freight Business Development Manager
Gleeson Recruitment Group
Manchester
In office
Mid - Senior
£50,000 - £60,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Gleeson is seeking a Freight Business Development Manager to join their client in the Manchester area This role calls for an individual experienced in freight sales Development via Air , Sea and Road . This is working for a entrepreneurial business that has been very successful in the past years and won several awards for there customer service as well as growth as a business , they are looking for a driven Freight Sales Professional who is motivated and wants to build a great reputation within the freight industry.

Job Title: Business Development Manager
Main Focus : Business Development

Salary : 45 - 60,000

Lifetime Commission + Car

Key Responsibilities:

  • Maintain strong focus and motivation to meet sales targets.
  • Identify and explore sales opportunities by thoroughly profiling new businesses to understand how we can best support their freight and customs needs.
  • Serve as a positive representative of the company to both internal and external stakeholders.
  • Actively pursue and develop new business opportunities.
  • Oversee and manage the CRM system, ensuring regular communication with current clients and timely follow-ups with potential customers.
  • Showcase a proven history of growing and strengthening client portfolios.
  • Coordinate effectively with customers, suppliers, and international partners.
  • Demonstrate expertise in technical sales and product knowledge.
  • Exhibit excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence and negotiate when necessary.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

  • Experience in Sales/Commercial Business Development
  • Experience in Road, Sea, or Air freight
  • Proficiency in Prospecting

Industry : Freight Forwarding

At Gleeson Recruitment Group, we embrace inclusivity and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We are proud to be a disability confident employer.

By applying you will be registered as a candidate with Gleeson Recruitment Limited. Our Privacy Policy is available on our website and explains how we will use your data.

Spotlight
Business Analyst - Senior Consultant (Contract)
Opencast
Multiple locations
Hybrid
Senior - Leader
£490/day - £600/day
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Check out this brand new role!

Want to solve meaningful problems?

Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business. As a Business Analyst, you’ll listen, ask questions and turn needs into plans usingstrong analysis, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

The role

You’ll lead business analysis activities within projects and be responsible for planning and achieving deliverables for our clients.

You’ll provide expert advice to our consultants and contribute towards building the BA community at Opencast.

You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you will have experience as a business analyst across different industries and/or clients. You will also ensure BA activities and outcomes align across multiple work streams and/or projects. Please show how you have:

• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.

• Analysed and evaluated complex business systems and processes to recommend improvement opportunities or change initiatives.

• Planned and executed the business analysis deliverables to meet the objectives of a project.

• Delegated and managed the tasks of others.

• Successfully worked within unfamiliar industries and/or clients and quickly adapted to understand the business domain and project needs.

• Built meaningful and lasting relationships with stakeholders to elicit and manage requirements and facilitate the path to delivery.

• Shaped the requirements management approach, including methodology, tools, and processes to enable successful delivery and value.

• Used a variety of BA techniques to solve complex problems and present ideas to stakeholders.

• Coached junior members of a team, sharing your knowledge of best practice and ways of working.

• Experience working in agile delivery teams

In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Salary

Inside IR35 - from £490 per day

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

Spotlight
Business Analyst - Consultant (Contract)
Opencast
Multiple locations
Hybrid
Mid
£380/day - £490/day
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Check out this brand new role!

Open to a new challenge?

Do you enjoy shaping products and services which positively impact people?

Are you looking for empowerment to deliver for some of the most important services in the UK?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re an independent UK technology consultancy specialising in designing, building and running user-centred digital and technology solutions that make a positive difference to people’s lives.

The role

You’ll already be working as a business analyst in your current role.

You’ll work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals.

You’ll work with other disciplines such as developers and user researchers to solve complex and interesting problems.

You’ll create relationships with stakeholders to understand what they need, then translate these into the requirements of the project.

You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.

If you take more of a leadership role on projects, you may be more suited to our senior business analyst role.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you need experience of working as a business analyst. You’ll need to show how you have:

• Applied business analysis techniques to solve problems in a methodical and considered way

• Elicited and managed business requirements using different methods

• Presented complex information in a way that is easy to understand

• Built effective working relationships within cross functional teams and across business stakeholders

• Shared knowledge and best practice with BAs and other disciplines

• Planned and managed your own workload to achieve the objectives of your project

• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.

• Working in agile delivery teams

• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in agile delivery management and/or product management

As well as business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant. You’ll need to show how you have:

• Contributed to improving ways of working within teams

• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with

In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Salary

Inside IR35 - from £380 per day

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

Spotlight
Business Analyst - Senior Consultant
Opencast
Multiple locations
Hybrid
Senior - Leader
£60,001 - £70,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Check out this brand new role!

Want to solve meaningful problems?

Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business. As a Business Analyst, you’ll listen, ask questions and turn needs into plans usingstrong analysis, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

The role

You’ll work on complex business challenges to deliver solutions that help our clients achieve their goals. You’ll lead the business analysis activities, be responsible for planning the deliverables and build strategic relationships with senior stakeholders

You’ll provide expert advice to our consultants and actively enable the development of the BA community at Opencast.

Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

To succeed as a senior consultant BA, you will need to demonstrate experience of working in complex delivery environments with an in-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle, agile working and user-centred design.

Please show how you have:

• Worked on major transformation programmes and/or across multiple project workstreams

• Analysed and evaluated complex business systems and processes to recommend improvement opportunities or change initiatives

• Planned and executed the business analysis plan to meet the objectives of a project.

• Delegated and managed the tasks of more junior business analysts

• Successfully worked within unfamiliar industries and/or clients and quickly adapted to understand the business domain and project needs.

• Built meaningful and lasting relationships with stakeholders to elicit and manage requirements and facilitate the path to delivery.

• Shaped the requirements management approach, including methodology, tools, and processes to enable successful delivery and value.

• Used a variety of BA techniques to solve complex problems and present findings to senior stakeholders.

• Coached junior members of a team, sharing your knowledge of best practice and ways of working.

• Worked in a multi-disciplinary team environment with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, UCD, Test and Development teams

In addition to business analysis skills, there are essential core skills and experience you’ll need to work effectively as a consultant, including:

• Supporting others to help them overcome their own challenges

• Proactively pursuing feedback to improve your work and behaviours

• Contributing to the commercial needs of Opencast

• Excellent verbal and written communication, facilitation and negotiation skills

In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Desirable experience

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role. If you don’t have experience of these please do still apply as we can coach you if you join us.

• The Service Standard (UK Government)

• Working in agile delivery teams

• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in agile delivery management and/or product management

If you have experience in these areas, please show them on your CV and we can talk about them at interview.

Salary

Senior consultant salary range: £60,001 - £70,000

What our offer includes

  • A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
  • Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
  • People to support you every step of the way.

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

Spotlight
Business Analyst - Consultant
Opencast
Multiple locations
Hybrid
Mid
£40,001 - £59,000
TECH-AGNOSTIC ROLE

Check out this brand new role!

Want to solve meaningful problems?

Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business. As a Business Analyst, you’ll listen, ask questions and turn needs into plans usingstrong analysis, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

The role

You’ll already be working as a business analyst in your current role.

You’ll work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals.

You’ll work with other disciplines such as developers and user researchers to solve complex and interesting problems.

You’ll create relationships with stakeholders to understand what they need, then translate these into the requirements of the project.

You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you need experience of working as a business analyst. You’ll need to show how you have:

• Applied business analysis techniques to solve problems in a methodical and considered way

• Elicited and managed business requirements using different methods

• Presented complex information in a way that is easy to understand

• Built effective working relationships within cross functional teams and across business stakeholders

• Shared knowledge and best practice with BAs and other disciplines

• Planned and managed your own workload to achieve the objectives of your project

As well as business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant. You’ll need to show how you have:

• Contributed to improving ways of working within teams

• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with

In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Desirable experience

Some areas of experience are not essential but relevant to the role. If you don’t have experience of these please do still apply as we can coach you if you join us.

• The Service Standard (UK Government)

• Working in agile delivery teams

• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in agile delivery management and/or product management

If you have any of this experience, please show them on your CV and we can discuss at interview.

Salary

Consultant salary range: £40,001 - £59,000

What our offer includes

A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.

Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.

People to support you every step of the way.

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

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Frequently asked questions
Manchester offers a wide range of Business Analyst roles, including Junior Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, and Business Systems Analyst positions across various industries such as finance, technology, healthcare, and retail.
Most Business Analyst roles require a degree in business, IT, or a related field. Relevant certifications like CBAP, CCBA, or Agile Business Analyst certifications can enhance your chances. Experience with tools like JIRA, SQL, and modeling techniques is also beneficial.
To improve your chances, tailor your CV to highlight relevant skills and experience, gain certifications, build knowledge of local industries, and network with professionals in the Manchester tech scene. Utilizing job boards like Haystack to apply promptly to new listings also helps.
Yes, many companies in Manchester offer remote or flexible working options, especially for Business Analyst roles. Job listings on Haystack often specify remote, hybrid, or flexible working arrangements, so you can find roles that suit your preferences.
The average salary for Business Analysts in Manchester ranges from £30,000 to £50,000 per year, depending on experience, industry, and role seniority. Senior or specialized Business Analyst roles can command higher salaries.