Are you a natural problem solver who loves bridging the gap between business needs and tech solutions? Do you excel at turning ambiguity into action and driving real change through collaboration?
Rexel is a worldwide electrical wholesaler and a global expert in distributing electric and energy-efficient products. Our mission is to provide smart electrical solutions that improve comfort, safety, and security across homes, businesses, and industries.
We are looking for an energetic, collaborative IT Business Analyst to join our team on a 12 month FTC basis to cover maternity leave. In this role, you will be the ultimate link between our organisation's real-world business needs and the technology solutions that support them.
The role offers hybrid working and requires flexibility to travel which will be subject to projects.
The Benefits of a Career with Rexel:
- Contributory pension scheme and life assurance
- Bonuses: Performance Related Bonus scheme
- Time Off: 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays, increasing throughout the years too!) You can also buy and sell holiday and enjoy enhanced parental leave
- Support & Development: Extensive learning opportunities from day one.
- Health & Wellbeing: Free virtual GP service, Healthy Mind Champions, and more!
- Perks: Staff discounts, exclusive holiday offers and free financial support and education
Job Description
You will be working closely with stakeholders to understand the business processes, identify areas for improvement, and recommend technology solutions to enhance efficiency, productivity, and overall business performance.
Some of the key accountabilities will include:
- Shape the Strategy: Work closely with stakeholders to dig into business processes, pinpoint areas for improvement, and recommend tech solutions that boost efficiency and performance.
- Map & Improve: Document "As-Is" workflows and help design slick, efficient "To-Be" processes.
- Elicit Requirements: Lead interactive workshops and 1-to-1 sessions to extract, analyse, and document project requirements.
- Drive Business Readiness: Act as the champion for change, helping teams smoothly transition to new systems and adopt new functionalities into business-as-usual (BAU) operations.
- Support Project Governance: Partner with Project Management to track actions, organise documentation, keep milestones on target, and evaluate third-party vendors.
At Rexel, we prioritise hiring individuals based on behaviours and potential, rather than requiring specific formal qualifications for roles. The behaviours that will set you up for success as an IT Business Analyst include:
COLLABORATION – Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
TAKES ACCOUNTABILTY – Takes action, addresses obstacles to get work done and meets commitments
CUSTOMER FOCUS – Building strong customer relationships & delivers customer centric solutions
MANAGES AMBIGUITY – deals constructively with problems that do not have clear solutions or outcomes
STRATEGIC MINDSET – Articulates credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create value
In addition to these behaviours you will benefit from:
- Confidence in collaborating and influencing stakeholders.
- Strong time management and ability to manage multiple tasks
- Good business and commercial acumen.
- Proactive and responsive attitude.
- Ability to build credible relationships with colleagues, suppliers and customers to achieve deadlines and targets.
- Resilient and confident under pressure
- Situational Adaptability – understanding that different situations can require different approaches
- Ideally you will have experience gained within a wholesale/ retail business
At Rexel UK, we’re all about welcoming people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives because we know that diversity drives fresh ideas and great results.
By coming together as one team, we’re building a high-performance culture that not only drives success but also creates real value for our customers and communities.
Creating an environment where individuality is celebrated and creativity flourishes, we're making sure everyone feels supported and confident to be their best.
Skills Required
- Confidence collaborating with and influencing stakeholders
- Strong time management and ability to manage multiple tasks
- Good business and commercial acumen
- Proactive and responsive attitude
- Ability to build relationships with colleagues, suppliers, and customers to achieve deadlines and targets
- Resilience and confidence under pressure
- Situational adaptability
- Experience in a wholesale or retail business
- Collaboration and partnership-building
- Accountability and commitment to completing work
- Customer focus
- Ability to manage ambiguity
- Strategic mindset
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What We Do
Rexel, worldwide expert in the professional multichannel distribution of electrical products and services for the energy world, addresses three main markets - residential, commercial, and industrial. The Group supports its customers to be at their best in running their business, by providing a broad range of sustainable and innovative products, services, and solutions in the field of technical supply, automation, and energy management. Rexel operates through a network of over 1,900 branches in 19 countries, with more than 27,000 employees. The Group’s sales were €19.2 billion in 2023. Over the past five years, Rexel has proven its ability to structurally outperform the growing and increasingly attractive electrical distribution market. The demand in green energy and energy efficiency has boosted the Group’s businesses. On February 11, 2021, Rexel presented its mid-term ambitions. The Group’s strategy relies on a growth, value-creation and ESG ambition approach, via several strategic initiatives: - Accelerating growth through “More Customers, More SKUs, More Digital” - Improving operational and financial performance, in particular through digital - A balanced capital allocation around return to shareholders and investment in future growth. As an example, Rexel seizes any external growth opportunity in order to strengthen its position in certain geographies such as the United States or to add adjacent skills. ESG targets for 2030: - A 35% reduction in CO2 emissions of its operations (scopes 1&2) compared to 2016 - A 45% reduction in CO2 emissions from the use of products sold (scope 3) compared to 2016. 2023 sales: €19.2 billion 19 countries 1,900 branches 27,000 employees
