Job Title: Business Analyst Contract Length: 6-month contractDay Rate: £550-£600 per dayWorking Model: Hybrid - 2 days remote, 3 days in the client's London Zone 1 office

A leading client of ours in the retail sector is seeking a Business Analyst (BA) to support the end-to-end implementation of a Product Information Management (PIM) solution. The BA will collaborate closely with business stakeholders, product owners, IT teams, data stewards, and the PIM vendor to ensure the system is effectively designed, configured, and adopted to meet business requirements for product data management, enrichment, governance, and distribution.

• Ensure the PIM solution meets business needs for managing product data throughout the product lifecycle.

• Define and validate business requirements, workflows, data models, and governance processes.

• Facilitate alignment between business stakeholders and technical implementation teams.

• Support successful adoption through training, documentation, and post-launch optimisation.

• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and discovery sessions.

• Document current-state product data processes, pain points, and system landscape.

• Define future-state workflows for product onboarding, data enrichment, approval, and publishing.

• Develop detailed business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process flows.

• Collaborate with data stewards to define product taxonomy, categories, attributes, and relationships.

• Identify hierarchical structures, product variants, digital assets, and localisation needs.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications for system configuration.

• Partner with solution architects and the PIM vendor on solution design.

• Review and validate attribute sets, workflows, roles/permissions, and integrations.

• Participate in backlog grooming and sprint planning for agile delivery.

• Document integration requirements between the PIM and other enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, eCommerce, DAM, PLM).

• Validate mapping rules, data exchange formats, and synchronisation workflows.

• Work with IT teams and vendors to troubleshoot data flow or configuration issues.

• Develop test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria.

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