Senior Business Analyst (HR)

Why Greencore?

Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make everyday taste better.

As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. Together, we bring delicious food to life. Our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct to store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food both our own and from trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop.

At Greencore we actively encourage our colleagues to apply for our vacancies, whether as a lateral move to broaden experience or the next step up to progress your career and development. We also welcome applications from external candidates who are eager to grow their career with us.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will have a strong track record of delivering HR-focused projects, including HRIS implementations, Time & Attendance, and Workforce Management solutions. The ideal candidate will excel at translating complex business requirements into scalable technology solutions, ensuring seamless integration and improved operational efficiency across HR functions.

You will partner closely with HR stakeholders and technical teams to drive end-to-end project delivery, from requirements gathering through to deployment and optimisation, bringing best-practice expertise in HR systems and process transformation.

• Understand and improve the inter-relationships between business processes, people procedures, systems and their associated information flows
• Assist in defining, planning and preparing Project Capital requests, delivery plans and associated business benefits and new ways of working
• Accurately identify and specify business solutions that satisfy business requirements and improve business performance
• Build relationships, to influence and work collaboratively across IT and business teams to ensure a clear understanding of priority detailed requirements that need to be delivered and supported in ongoing live service
• Ensure user testing & training requirements are understood, documented, and supports user adoption of new initiatives and ways of working
• Manage and lead small to medium sized business process and solution related projects
• Meticulously follows BA standards and processes, including the documentation of requirements and tests. Actively contributes to improving those standards and processes
• Support the development of peers and junior colleagues within the BA community, sharing knowledge, experience and best practice to improve the overall quality of business analysis within Group IT

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in business systems analysis, process engineering, process/organisational transformation and project management (including benefit and risk management)
• Shows a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving
• Good attention to detail skills
• Has above average inter-personal skills and is confident in dealing with business team leads to influence business change
• Good understanding of software testing, from planning, execution and tracking to ensure smooth validation of business requirements largely ahead of UAT / Live running
• A strong understanding of IT applications and infrastructure, and a commitment to continuously improving their knowledge of this
• Ability to coach an mentor others
• Great communicator
• HR Experience (HRIS Implementations, Time & Attendance and Workforce Management systems, Benefits Platforms) desirable
• Data Quality & Governance knowledge desirable

What you’ll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Annual Target Bonus
• Car Allowance
• Holidays
• Competitive matched pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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