Senior Business Analyst HU - Contract

Who We Are:

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

Senior Business Analyst with Commerce experience required to join our Delivery team here in Hungary.

We are VML Enterprise Solutions - a group of talented engineers, tech experts, and creators who combine our passions and contribute to the IT world. You may know us better as Wunderman Thompson Technology – in 2024 we changed our name, but at the same time, we remained a great team of people who deliver our best. We design, build, manage and run complex technology platforms and help our clients to benefit from our work and creativity.

The opportunity:

Senior Business Analyst needed to join our team here at VML Enterprise Solutions. Working under your own initiative with required guidance and support, a Senior Business Analyst with proven experience you will be part of the Business Analysis team and expected to take the initiative in ensuring the business needs of our client are fully documented, understood and met by the proposed solution.

Please bear in mind that this is a contractual position based in Budapest.

Please send us your CV in English.

What you’ll be doing:

Discovery

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product, ensuring that ideation ladders up to the strategic goals of the business, and support adapting priorities as the business progresses.
• Represent the voice of the customer, ensuring the customer experience is frictionless across channels.
• Own the product roadmap and ensure it aligns product roadmap to strategic goals: both in the immediate and longer term.
• Determine scope of change and the iterations to unlock greatest customer value
• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Understand and challenge perceived customer value in order to prioritise effectively and ensure we focus on the changes that will deliver maximum value align to our strategy

Planning

• Play an active role leading up to and during PI planning meeting to ensure the quarterly plans align to strategic goals, and the event I ran well to ensure the investment spent on time is fully realised and strong plans are formed for quarter ahead.

• Solve product-related problems, make decisions, complete trade-off analysis to stay on track towards business deliverable commitments

Release and Processes

• Identify areas of the agile process that require refinement and look for opportunities to continuously improve the E2E process working closely with our senior release and engineering teams.
• Possess a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience integration and dependencies.
• Contribute to release meetings and prioritise which candidates will be delivered across value streams and Programmes & Projects. Ensuring a pragmatic and profession approach to decision making is maintained, maximising value out of each and every release whilst maintaining the delivery cadence.

People

• Line management responsibilities, including conducting 121s, half yearly and yearly reviews.
• Lead and mentor members of the product practice, to create high performing, self-organising teams Leading from the front ensuring that Product Owners are empowered to make decisions and support progression to grow Product Practice

Benefits

• Track and report on benefits realisation versus key objectives and forecasts. Including working with proposition owners and finance BPs, reviewing monthly to ensure the IB submissions and drawdowns are accurate throughout the year.
• Draft key objectives and results, strategies and apply the data for the product to make business decisions.
• Ensure your team develop and maintain an appropriately prioritised backlog of user stories for implementation, with a laser focus on benefits realisation, both ££ and NPS.
• Support broader CX Teams in hitting the Digital NPS ambition by ensuring that both monetary value and customer experience value is unlocked through feature development

What you should have:

• Proven experience working as a Business Analyst on ecommerce/web-based projects
• Experience of managing client stakeholders
• Ablility to run workshops with client stakeholders
• Highly proactive, talented, enthusiastic, focused, eye for detail, professional. Keen to learn and to challenge for smarter ways of doing things; a team player proud of their work who wants to share it. You like working in a fast-paced environment and are ready to inspire outstanding online shopper experiences for consumers and brands, no matter what product, service, sector, device or channel!
• Customer-first mindset, with the maturity and initiative to do what it takes keep our clients happy, including some working at client locations.
• Great stakeholder management skills
• Experience of Agile software delivery
• Knowledge of Business Process mapping and engineering
• eCommerce and retail / brand experience
• Production of high quality user stories and acceptance criteria
• Analysis and design of systems
• Ability to work on your own initiative to an agreed action plan
• Strong communication skills - as this role requires a high level of communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Strong problem solving, time management and organisational skills
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen
• Energetic, enthusiastic with strong attention to detail

You will collaborate with our UK project team, so we’ll need you to be available until 18:00 HU time.

Bonus points if you have:

• Scrum master experience
• Experience working with multiple different e-commerce platforms
• Marketing and/or AI experience

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

We offer a great benefits package including hybrid working that works for everyone, social events, training opportunities, medical and dental insurance, life assurance, meal cards and much more.

Our personality and behaviours: We believe that we are what we do, not just what we say. Our shared values and behaviours show how to bring the VML Enterprise Solution's culture to life through the actions we all take every day:

• Connect Meaningfully
• Inspire Creatively
• Include Purposefully
• Approach Positively

Our brilliant, talented people are what makes VML Enterprise Solutions what we are. That’s why we look for people who go beyond and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.

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At VML, we are committed to fostering an all-inclusive work environment that is both rewarding and career-forward. Our Inclusion, Equity & Belonging initiatives, alongside the VML Foundation, reflect our dedication to giving back and making a positive impact in our communities and beyond. Our people are the heartbeat of our organization—creators, doers, innovators, makers, and thinkers—who drive not just marketing, but meaningful experiences that resonate in every action and interaction.

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