Exciting opportunity for an AI Business Analyst to join the Central AI Capability Commercial Operations team in this global energy company.
This is an exciting time to join a world leading energy company as it evolves from a traditional oil and gas enterprise into a future focused energy leader, establishing a highly successful new power trading desk and venturing into cutting edge solutions such as advanced gas infrastructure, LNG technology, energy storage systems and green energy solutions.
The Role
The Business Analyst will be part of a central AI delivery team for Commercial Operations, acting as a shared capability across portfolios.
- Shaping AI use cases from problem statement to production
- Enabling consistent intake, prioritisation and value assessment
- Bridging business demand with AI delivery, governance and IT processes
- Preventing AI initiatives from stalling at PoC stage
Core Skills & Responsibilities AI Use Case & Value Analysis (Mandatory)
- Partner with Commercial Operations teams to identify, frame and prioritise AI use cases
- Translate business problems into clear AI ready use cases, including:
- Objectives and success criteria
- Expected business value (efficiency, risk reduction, speed, quality)
- Data inputs and constraints
- Support value tracking and benefits realisation, from initial hypothesis to post deployment review
Business Analysis & Delivery
- Elicit and document lean, outcome driven requirements suitable for AI and data products
- Map current state processes and identify automation and augmentation opportunities
- Define acceptance criteria focused on business outcomes, not just technical completion
- Support PoC to production transition by clarifying scope, risks, dependencies and readiness
Stakeholder & Governance Engagement
- Lead discovery workshops and structured problem framing sessions
- Act as a bridge between business, AI engineers, IT architecture, security and governance
- Support consistent engagement with demand management, risk and compliance processes
Tools & Ways of Working
- Experience working in Agile, iterative delivery environments with experimentation cycles
- Proficiency with:
- JIRA, Confluence
- Excel and SQL for analysis and validation
- Power BI / Tableau for value and performance tracking
- Familiarity with AI adjacent tooling and concepts (e.g., document automation, agents, NLP, LLMs) is a strong plus
- Experience supporting data or AI solutions moving into production is highly desirable
- 7+ years with strong hands on delivery exposure
- AI / automation use case storytelling and value articulation
- Change management and adoption planning
- Business process modelling and service design
- Experience working in federated or centralised capability models
- Experience in Commercial Operations and Trading & Supply environments
Qualifications
- Prince 2 Practitioner
- CBAP / CCBA / PMI PBA
- Agile certifications (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban)
Location
- Hybrid: 3 days per week from London office
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