Senior Product Analyst

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Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations :
Perth or Glasgow

Salary: £61,620 - £72,592 and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

Energy Markets (EM) is the commercial heart of the SSE Group, securing value for SSE's asset portfolios in wholesale energy markets as we move towards our vision of being a leading energy company in a net zero world. EM plays a critical role as the asset optimiser, route to market and risk management function for all SSE's Business Units (Wind, Hydro, Low Carbon Thermal, Distributed Energy and Customer portfolios).

EM enables SSE to focus its expertise and capabilities in energy markets (including Trading, Risk Management, Energy Economics and Advanced Analytics) in one centre of excellence and, with these enhanced capabilities, support value creation and decision-making across the SSE Group.

As a Senior Product Analyst, you will play a crucial role in driving successful delivery of products within SSE. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, utilizing agile methodologies to ensure delivery. Your analytical skills and understanding of the energy industry will be essential in capturing and documenting requirements and identifying opportunities for process improvement including optimizing outcomes. You will work closely with Product Owners and Delivery Leads to:

• Develop and maintain documentation in an agile environment, including user stories and product backlogs.
• Take a lead role in agreeing the approach to requirement gathering in the most appropriate format(s) and translate business needs to actionable plans by a variety of methods including via sprint planning sessions across a diverse range of work ranging from business functional system changes to IT driven obsolescence upgrades.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and implement best practices to enhance delivery efficiency.
• Coordinate with Product Owners / Delivery Leads as well as cross-functional teams to prioritize tasks, resolve dependencies, and mitigate risks.
• Work closely with Product Owners and Delivery Leads and act as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders, to ensure alignment of the delivery objectives and that requirements are clearly understood. Continuously build up knowledge of different areas within Energy Markets to ensure a good understanding of key business processes / teams, as well as the underlying architecture and technical landscapes of the systems that support them.

• Technical IT product analysis experience using Agile methodologies to gather requirements, including proficiency in Business Process Mapping.
• Experience of Agile software development practices including Scrum and Kanban frameworks and running sprint planning, daily stand ups, retrospectives and show and tells utilising common tools like Azure Dev Ops / Jira / Confluence.
• Outstanding coordination abilities, with a track record of collaborating with both internal and external stakeholders in both business and technical domains.
• Experience of leading analysis engagements and defining the appropriate approach to gathering requirements for both business and technical audiences.
• Professional knowledge of the energy sector, including key market trends and business drivers. Specific knowledge of trading practices within the energy industry would be advantageous.

SSE's purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plansees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

Our IT division powers growth across all SSE business areas by making sure we have the systems, software and security needed to take the lead in a low carbon world. They provide…