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Business Architect
Northampton, Northamptonshire (with hybrid working)

About Us

Yusen Logistics is working to become the world’s preferred supply chain logistics company. Our complete offer is designed to forge better connections between businesses, customers, and communities – through innovative supply chain management, freight forwarding, warehousing, and distribution services. As a company, we’re dedicated to a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring everyone who works with us is committed, connected, and creative in making us the world’s preferred choice.

We are now looking for a Business Architect to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37.5 hours per week with hybrid working (up to four days remotely per week).

The Benefits

- Starting salary £55,000 - £60,000 (DOE) per annum
- £6,000 car allowance
- Bonus (up to 12%)
- Permanent Health Insurance (40% of salary cover)
- Pension scheme – 6% matched employer contribution
- Comprehensive private family health cover
- 25 days’ holiday (excluding bank holidays) and 5 days’ volunteer leave per year
- Opportunity for unpaid leave
- Up to 10 days’ international remote working
- Critical Illness Cover
- MyStrength Wellbeing App
- Free online fitness platform including Pilates, Yoga, mindfulness/meditation, and 24/7 support on diet and nutrition
- Free access to 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, Life Events Counselling, and - - Care Concierge Service
- Tailored development and career opportunities

This is a perfect opportunity for a Business Architect or Business Analyst, with experience dealing with Enterprise Architecture models with a background in logistics and warehouse systems to join our leading logistics organisation.

You will have the chance to contribute to transformation initiatives whilst leveraging an exceptional array of benefits, alongside plenty of opportunities for personal and professional growth to advance your career.

Enjoying the flexibility of hybrid working, you will become a valued member of our supportive and forward-thinking team. So, if you’re seeking an exciting new challenge where your impact will not go unnoticed, read on and apply today!

The Role

As a Business Architect, you will support a range of change and transformation initiatives for our business through your business architecture expertise.

Specifically, you will interpret and contextualise the business strategy, developing artifacts such as business capability models and value streams, and ensuring that strategic goals align within the broader business architecture context.

Providing business architecture services and artifacts, you will conduct process gap analyses, value stream analyses and capability maturity modelling.

You will also develop and implement a common Business Architecture Framework across the UK business landscape and mediate communication between business requirements and design phases.

Additionally, you will:

- Collaborate with IT infrastructure owners to create a cohesive business IT landscape
- Partner with Solutions Infrastructure architects and the Security Team to ensure alignment and compliance
- Stay informed on technological advancements and recommend their utilisation
- Propose enhancements to existing Business Architecture and identify areas for process improvement
- Establish governance protocols and maintain comprehensive documentation

About You

To be considered as a Business Architect, you will need:

- Experience as a Business Architect or Business Analyst
- Proficiency in Enterprise Architecture (EA) modelling languages such as Archimate and/or TOGAF
- A strong background in logistics and experience with warehouse management operations and systems
- Strong analytical skills

- An undergraduate degree or equivalent qualification or experience

The closing date for this role is 18/11/2024.

Other organisations may call this role Business Analyst, BA, Business Change Consultant, Business Process Consultant, Architecture Engineer, Warehouse Solutions Architect, Solutions Architect, Logistics Systems Architect, or Business Improvement Architect.

Webrecruit and Yusen Logistics are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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