Senior Business Analyst

About Rightmove

Rightmove is dedicated to empowering individuals with confidence to navigate their moving journey. We provide the UK's largest selection of properties and serve millions seeking their next home, industry insights, or market exploration. Despite rapid expansion, we maintain a friendly and supportive workplace, guided by our core values that emphasize delivering impact, collaboration, diversity, and trust.

Role Overview

This senior business analyst position offers an opportunity to conduct comprehensive strategic analysis across multiple product areas and business functions at Rightmove. You will be part of the Programmes & Analysis team, providing thorough insights and guiding the successful delivery of projects and initiatives from inception to completion.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders across all organizational levels to produce precise and insightful analysis, sometimes integrating light project management as needed.
• Evaluate new product opportunities, investigate multifaceted issues affecting various departments, and analyze diverse data sources to answer critical questions.
• Develop a deep understanding of Rightmove’s business framework, structure, and technology landscape by leveraging team knowledge.
• Engage with colleagues from Sales, Finance, People, Operations, and Product Development to build rapport and enhance domain knowledge.
• Create deliverables suited for different audiences—ranging from detailed analytical reports to executive summaries, presentations, project plans, and risk logs.
• Adapt fluidly between strategic oversight, detailed technical analysis, and operational planning within short timeframes.
• Contribute to advancing the business analysis practice by setting high standards and mentoring junior team members.

Candidate Profile

• A strong believer in the essential contribution of business analysis to organizational success.
• Capable of independently managing and delivering discrete tasks balancing analytical depth and project coordination.
• Proactive, solution-driven, and curious about continuous learning and skill growth.
• Effective communicator skilled at translating complex technical and business concepts to diverse audiences.
• Thrives in a dynamic, complex, and fast-evolving environment.
• Aligns with Rightmove's mission and values, motivated to help others with their moving decisions.

Required Experience and Skills

• Proficient in both agile product environments and formal project/programme management frameworks.
• Commercially and organizationally astute to align analyses with business goals and value drivers.
• Quick to assimilate knowledge across diverse business and product areas.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, building trust, influencing outcomes, and facilitating decisions.
• Project management expertise covering scoping, planning, risk management, and reporting through to project closure.
• Advanced competence in requirements elicitation, discovery, and problem framing based on stakeholder and customer insights.
• Experienced in analyzing current and future processes and journeys with qualitative and quantitative methods to identify root causes and prioritize impactful changes.
• Adept at leading options analysis, balancing factors like value, risk, feasibility, and operations to support senior decision-making.
• Excellent analytical skills for data interrogation, assumption validation, and synthesizing insights into coherent narratives and decision-making tools.

Benefits and Workplace Culture

• Dental, optical, and physiotherapy cash plan.
• Private medical insurance, pension scheme, life insurance, and employee assistance program.
• 27 days annual holiday plus two paid days dedicated to volunteering, with options to buy additional leave.
• Contributory stakeholder pension and life assurance of four times basic salary.
• Competitive remuneration aligned with experience.
• Paid leave for maternity, paternity, adoption, and fertility treatments.
• Financial support schemes including travel loans, bike-to-work, and rental deposit loans.
• Charitable giving programs through payroll and donation matching.
• Employee discounts on travel, electronics, fashion, fitness, entertainment, and more.
• Hybrid working model requiring minimum two days onsite work, with role-specific arrangements communicated during recruitment.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Rightmove is committed to fostering a workplace free from discrimination based on age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. We believe diverse and inclusive teams enhance innovation and success, and we strive to create a welcoming environment for all employees.

Additional Information

Applicants must be at least 18 years old. By applying, candidates consent to Rightmove's Privacy Policy concerning personal data handling during recruitment.