More about the role

Here, at New Look, everything that we do is for the love of fashion.

We’ve been bringing the latest fashion to the high-street since 1969.  We’re now a global, multichannel brand offering on-trend, value-fashion for women, men and teenage girls.  Even after 50 years we’ve stayed true to our original mission of delivering fabulous products at a price our customers can afford.

It’s our colleagues today that continue our journey to create a New Look that everyone loves.

It’s our values that inspire us every day - we play to win, we are customer obsessed, we work as one and it starts with you.

We are always on the lookout for talented, passionate people to join our New Look team.

The Role:

Our IT team are looking for Business Analaysts to help ensure that our IT project team understand New Looks business needs and it's impacts and translate these so that appropriate solutions can be developed and changes are taken on smoothly.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Work with the business and IT team(s) to capture and document requirements / stories (both functional and non-functional)

• Use a range of techniques such as workshop facilitation, document analysis, sites visits, use cases, scenario modelling, task and workflow analysis

• Ensure requirements / stories are concise, complete, specific, unambiguous and that they are aligned to the strategic and tactical goals of the project and the business

• Define the importance of requirements / stories and support prioritisation

• Refine these requirements / stories to a sufficient level of detail to allow appropriate implementation of solutions and testing

• Provide refined requirements / stories into project iterations in time to allow design/delivery to commence

• Manage the scope and traceability of requirements / stories throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that they are understood by both the project team and business stakeholders

• Support the production of business cases, ensuring benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives as well as technology planning

• Use their understanding of New Look business, people, technology and concurrent delivery work to assess;

•  Business impacts

•  Operational impacts

•  Service impacts

•  People impacts

• Use their understanding of New Look business, people, technology and concurrent delivery work to support the assessment of;

• Design impacts

• Synergies with other delivery initiatives

• Potential blockers

• Dependencies

• Discover and document the as-is process by applying various process modelling techniques

• Design and model the to-be process, performing gap analysis and identifying areas for improvement

• Ensure business processes are aligned with the business and IT architecture

• Review solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified, validated and delivered

• Assist with the identifying and managing of risks, issues and dependencies

• Work with the test team to provide business input into test strategy, system test plans, system test conditions and UAT plans

• Work with the service team to provide business input into service transition

• For delivery of smaller projects, the Business Analyst may be required to act as the Project Manager and undertake other tasks across the full project lifecycle such as systems design, supplier management, status reporting and planning, and testing.

Why New Look?

The amazing people, the love of fashion – there are so many reasons to love working at New Look. We offer training to support you and your career progression, so that you can be at your absolute best.

You’ll also receive these amazing benefits:

• 40% staff discount

• Monthly 25% off  privilege vouchers for family and friends to enjoy

• Quarterly sample sales

• Season ticket loans

We’re sure that you’re as excited as us to get back to some level of normality soon. While we’ve always championed our smarter working policy, COVID has changed the way we work remotely. We’re dreaming of those days where we’re able to meet and collaborate in the office again and when we do, we expect to maintain a flexible approach, balancing time between home and office. This is always role dependant so worth covering off in any conversations you have throughout the process.

Apply now to find out more.