IT Demand Shaping Analyst
// Role Summary
Join BAE Systems as an IT Demand Shaping Analyst, a crucial role in defining new demand for technology solutions before formal initiation. You will collaborate with stakeholders to clarify scope, challenge assumptions, and produce clear proposals for complex defence, aerospace, and security projects.
// Key Responsibilities
- Analyze and define new business demand within the early stages of the lifecycle.
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and technical teams to clarify scope and outcomes.
- Challenge assumptions and solution-led requests to ensure clear definition of business needs.
- Produce comprehensive demand proposals including scope, risks, costs, and next steps.
- Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities within Demand Shaping and the wider organization.
- Utilize data and management information to identify process inefficiencies and bottlenecks.
// Role Specification
IT Demand Shaping Analyst
Join BAE Systems and contribute to pioneering progress and protecting what matters most. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace, and security solutions, shaping a safer future.
The Demand Shaping Analyst operates within the early stages of the demand lifecycle within the Demand Shaping team. The role works with customers, business stakeholders, Architects, technical teams and Partners to understand and clearly define new demand before it progresses into formal Initiation and delivery.
Core Duties:
- Work with customers to understand the business problem, opportunity, scope, intended outcomes and drivers behind new demand.
- Challenge solution-led requests and stakeholder assumptions to ensure the underlying business need is clearly defined.
- Produce demand proposals that capture the scope, outcomes, assumptions, risks, dependencies, indicative costs and recommended next steps.
- Identify and deliver continuous improvement opportunities across Demand Shaping, the wider DPMO and the end-to-end strategic demand pipeline.
- Use data and management information to identify process inefficiencies, recurring issues, bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement.
- Contribute to non-project consultancy activity where appropriate, including options papers, feasibility studies, cost-benefit analysis, return-on-investment analysis, gap analysis and scenario analysis.
Essential Skills:
- Extensive Business Analysis experience within a complex organisation.
- Understanding of digital, data, or technology delivery models (e.g., Agile).
- Enterprise awareness, considering demand across business areas, capabilities, processes, systems and services.
- Stakeholder management and communication skills.
- The ability to engage, influence and constructively challenge senior and technical stakeholders.
About the Enterprise IT Demand Management Team:
The team manage all demand coming into EIT as well as forecasting future demand and the delivery capacity required to meet the pipeline. Ensuring alignment and simplified governance is key. We work closely with BAE business sectors to assure alignment to Functional, Enterprise Technology and Sector Roadmaps.
Location:
Preston, Frimley, Filton or Portsmouth – Hybrid. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.