City Electrical Factors

Business Analyst

City Electrical Factors  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Hybrid)  •  28 days ago
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Job Description

Join one of the UK’s largest electrical wholesalers as we reimagine our technology for the digital age. We’re modernising our legacy systems and building new platforms powered by AWS and AI — and we need creative minds to help us shape the future!

Life as an Business Analyst on our ERP Programme:

We're looking for an experienced Business Analyst to play a pivotal role in one of the most significant transformation programmes in our organisation's history.

As we modernise our core business systems through a large-scale ERP transformation, you'll work at the heart of the programme—partnering with business stakeholders, technology teams and delivery partners to understand how our business operates today and help design how it will operate tomorrow.

This is an opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex business challenges and is motivated by delivering tangible outcomes rather than producing documentation for documentation's sake.

If you're commercially minded, naturally curious and confident engaging with stakeholders at every level, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing:

    You'll act as the bridge between the business and technology teams, ensuring our ERP solution delivers real business value across key operational functions.

    Key responsibilities include:

    • Partner with stakeholders across the business to understand operational challenges, strategic priorities and future business requirements.
    • Run workshops, interviews and process discovery sessions to capture current and future state processes.
    • Analyse complex business processes across retail, wholesale, supply chain, logistics, warehousing, procurement, inventory and finance functions.
    • Translate business requirements into clear, prioritised user stories, functional requirements and acceptance criteria.
    • Challenge existing ways of working, identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise and improve business processes.
    • Collaborate closely with Commercial Business Experts, Directors of Operations, Business Leadership, Solution Architects, Project Managers, Developers and third-party implementation partners throughout the delivery lifecycle.
    • Support solution design, ensuring proposed ERP capabilities align with business objectives and operational needs.
    • Facilitate decision making by balancing business priorities, technical constraints and programme timelines.
    • Manage requirements through change, ensuring traceability from discovery through to implementation.
    • Support testing, business readiness, user acceptance testing (UAT) and successful business adoption.
    • Identify risks, assumptions, dependencies and impacts across workstreams, proactively escalating where appropriate.
    • Drive continuous improvement and champion best practice business analysis throughout the programme.

What We're Looking For:

    We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical capability with exceptional people skills.

    You'll ideally have:

    • Proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering complex ERP transformation programmes.
    • Experience working within retail, wholesale, distribution, logistics, manufacturing, supply chain or another high-volume product-based environment
    • Strong understanding of end-to-end operational processes including inventory, purchasing, warehousing, order management and fulfilment.
    • Demonstrable experience eliciting, documenting and managing business requirements using a range of business analysis techniques.
    • Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge and build trusted relationships across all levels of the organisation.
    • Outstanding workshop facilitation, communication and presentation skills.
    • Strong commercial awareness and business acumen, with the ability to understand how technology enables operational performance.
    • Experience working within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery environments.
    • A pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset that balances quality with pace.
    • Confidence working in ambiguous environments where priorities evolve as programmes progress.

Our Package:

  • Annual IT Bonus scheme
  • 25 Days of Annual Leave - (Excluding Bank Holidays)
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Champion Health – a comprehensive physical, mental & financial wellbeing platform, offering bespoke content on all aspects of wellbeing & life including recipes, workouts, blogs and loads of other content for you.
  • Light Up Learning - Our Learning & Development platform
  • MySavings - Employee Discount Platform
  • Free use of the state-of-the-art private gym at our IT Headquarters
About Us:
Founded in 1951 in Kenilworth, UK, City Electrical Factors (CEF) has grown into a world-leading electrical wholesale and manufacturing business with over 400 branches across the UK and a strong presence in the USA, Canada, Spain and Australia.
Our IT and digital teams are driving the next chapter of our journey... Re-engineering legacy systems, adopting modern cloud technologies and exploring AI to deliver faster, smarter and more connected customer experiences.
We’re a predominantly remote workforce with teams distributed across the UK, USA, Canada, Spain and Australia. Our culture is collaborative, forward-thinking and people-focused — where your ideas and contributions genuinely matter.
Our Mission:
City is a world leading electrical wholesale and manufacturing business providing electrical products to the industry. We in IT are delivering value to our business and our customers with the implementation of packaged software and bespoke engineering for the digital age using AWS serverless technology. We need talented and creative people across all areas to join us in rearchitecting our forward thinking business over the next few years and beyond as we evolve.
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City Electrical Factors

About City Electrical Factors

City Electrical Factors Ltd is a private limited company established in 1951. We are the United Kingdom’s leading Electrical Wholesale Network with almost twice as many distribution outlets as our nearest competitor.

Our group of electrical companies not only extends throughout the United Kingdom but also North America, the Middle East, and now Australia.

Our business has been built on service to our customers and at City Electrical Factors we believe your problems and challenges are our problems and challenges and our duty is to find solutions to them.

In order to provide the best possible service we have developed a highly responsive and motivated organisation that can adapt readily to each individual customer’s needs and requirements.

We believe in offering each of our customers the same superior quality of service and products.

Our IT systems have been developed “In House” so that we can respond to any order whether large or small and track that order from receipt to delivery.

Our team of professional delivery drivers then deliver the goods, when you want it and where you want it, this service is free and there are no minimum charges.

We are partners in our customers’ development and in everything we do our aim is to put the customer first and look to exceed their expectations.

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Industry
Wholesale & Distribution
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
, GB
Year Founded
1951
Website
cef.co.uk
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