Business Analyst
Posted Today by Xcede
£75 Per hour
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of PIM Business Analyst involves supporting the implementation of a new Product Information Management solution for a major UK retailer, focusing on product data quality and governance. The position requires experience in multiple PIM implementations and the ability to work across various platforms. The analyst will lead discovery processes, define workflows, and align the PIM system with existing ERP and ecommerce systems. The contract is initially for 7 months with a hybrid working arrangement and a significant onsite presence required during the discovery phase.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery to document current-state product data processes and pain points.
- Define future-state workflows for onboarding, enrichment, approval and publishing.
- Produce business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and process flows.
- Define taxonomy, attributes, hierarchies, variants and relationships with data teams.
- Establish data quality rules and governance.
- Translate requirements into functional specifications for configuration.
- Align PIM with D365, ecommerce, DAM and downstream systems.
- Document integrations, mappings and synchronisation rules.
- Support SIT and UAT.
- Create documentation, support training and hypercare.
Key Skills:
- Proven delivery of multiple end-to-end PIM implementations.
- Strong stakeholder management across merchandising, product, data, ecommerce and IT.
- Deep understanding of product data models and governance.
- Experience working alongside large ERP programmes, ideally Microsoft D365.
- Retail experience preferred.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity during discovery.
Salary (Rate): £75.00/hr
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
PIM Business Analyst – contract (outside IR35) A major UK retailer is engaging an experienced PIM Business Analyst to support the end-to-end implementation of a new Product Information Management (PIM) solution. The role operates alongside a wider Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP transformation and focuses on product data quality, governance and distribution. The PIM platform is still being selected. Candidates must show multiple PIM implementations and the ability to work platform-agnostically across Akeneo, inRiver or equivalent.
Key responsibilities
- Lead discovery to document current-state product data processes and pain points.
- Define future-state workflows for onboarding, enrichment, approval and publishing.
- Produce business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and process flows.
- Define taxonomy, attributes, hierarchies, variants and relationships with data teams.
- Establish data quality rules and governance.
- Translate requirements into functional specifications for configuration.
- Align PIM with D365, ecommerce, DAM and downstream systems.
- Document integrations, mappings and synchronisation rules.
- Support SIT and UAT.
- Create documentation, support training and hypercare.
Required experience
- Proven delivery of multiple end-to-end PIM implementations.
- Strong stakeholder management across merchandising, product, data, ecommerce and IT.
- Deep understanding of product data models and governance.
- Experience working alongside large ERP programmes, ideally Microsoft D365.
- Retail experience preferred.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity during discovery.
Contract details £600 per day. Outside IR35. Initial 7-month contract. Hybrid working, with a significant onsite expectation during the discovery phase. Start ASAP. Message directly for further details.