Pets at Home

Business Analyst (Software)

Pets at Home  •  Onsite  •  29 days ago
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Job Description

Business Analyst (Software)

We’re looking for a Business Analyst who’s passionate about turning complex challenges into simple, meaningful solutions. If you love collaborating, asking great questions, and shaping products that truly help colleagues and customers, this could be your next step.

Why this role matters

As part of a cross‑functional product squad, you’ll work hand‑in‑hand with Product Owners, Developers, Designers and Testers to bring ideas to life. You’ll help us understand business needs, map journeys, spot opportunities for improvements and translate these into clear, actionable requirements that support brilliant digital experiences — whether that’s in store, online or for our colleagues.

What you’ll be doing

Discovery & problem solving

  • Explore business and customer challenges to find opportunities for improvement
  • Analyse risks, impacts and benefits so teams can make the right decisions
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across Pets to uncover and refine requirements
  • Create clear, friendly and useful documentation that brings processes to life

Delivery & agile ways of working

  • Work with Product and Engineering leads to prioritise and plan work
  • Break requirements into story maps, features and user stories that are ready for development
  • Write high‑quality user stories with crystal‑clear acceptance criteria
  • Support refinement, sprint planning, bug triage and squad ceremonies
  • Validate solutions with stakeholders to ensure they deliver real value
  • Help colleagues prepare for change with business readiness support

Improving how we work

  • Champion agile methods and help strengthen our ways of working
  • Spot opportunities to improve team performance and collaboration

What you’ll bring

Essential

  • 2–3 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
  • A strong understanding of business processes and how to capture them
  • Experience working in agile teams (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc.)
  • Confident writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria
  • Great communication skills — you can explain things clearly to anyone
  • Comfortable adapting to change and juggling multiple priorities
  • A focus on delivering meaningful value for customers and colleagues

Even better if…

  • You’ve worked in retail, ecommerce or an omnichannel environment
  • You’ve worked across multi‑disciplinary squads
  • You’re familiar with CI/CD practices
  • You’ve used tools like Avion, Azure DevOps or Figma

Who you are

You’re curious, open‑minded and love learning.
You ask great questions, think critically, and get excited about solving problems.
You enjoy collaborating, building relationships and helping teams do their best work.And above all — you want to make a positive difference.

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you

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Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.

We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.

Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.

Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!

If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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