Trudie Allanson

A highly experienced Data and Business Analysis and Customer focused professional with over 25 years' experience operating at the intersection of business, data, technology, and delivery across large, complex organisations. Most recently within enterprise AI, Data & Analytics environments, with a long background in SAP Customer processes and strategies. A core strength is stakeholder management, project and delivery ownership.

Particularly effective at translating complex data and technical concepts into clear, non-technical language that resonates with the business and supports confident decision-making.

Group Data Product Owner

(2023-12)

Product Owner | Senior Business Analyst | A Data & Digital Transformation Leader. Managing a team of engineers with permanent and contract resource. Working in an Agile project methodology of sprint planning, refinement, review, triage and scrum meetings.

Snowflake is considered the new Enterprise Data Platform which is now being implemented as Cloudera and BW are depreciated. Managing stakeholders through the process and expectations for delivery which can also include managing many 3rd parties inclusive of Wipro for support of production applications and middleware for the transition of files between sFTP servers and AWS.

• SAP SD/MM/QA/WM/BW, Salesforce, S/4HANA, Cloudera & Snowflake
• Product Ownership & Product Strategy
• Agile (Scrum & Kanban)
• Stakeholder Management at all levels
• Data Governance & Data Products. Policies with Governance team
• Alation Data Governance requirements & maintenance of data in Alation
• Data masking – AD needs, Business requirements against Data assets and table set up and maintenance
• Backlog Prioritisation
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Microsoft Azure
• Power BI, Business Objects
• Facilitation of workshops/meetings

Group Data Business Analyst

(2021-05 - 2023-12)

Receipt of demand requests to BA's initially through a form request and later facilitating an intake forum through a project management tool called YOOI which helped scope and implement. Liaising with the business to document their submitted requests and playback sessions to ensure understanding is correct and achievable, and risk assessed. Management of the department backlog with prioritisation meetings and facilitating Stand up calls daily following Kanban/Agile methodology to manage work through to done and stakeholders informed throughout the process.

Heavily involved with the scoping, analysis, implementation, and support of the Enterprise Data Platform.

• Use of Jira to document tasks and manage backlog
• Confluence to document the change/fix and any supplementing process documentation including flows
• Working closely with Solution architects to implement their design
• Ensuring business availability to test the requested change and release of changes with minimal impact and an ELS period
• Management of demand for BAU inclusive of Production incidents and system improvements and projects from around the business

Ecommerce Business Analyst - Wacoal EMEA Ltd

(2021-03 - 2022-05)

• Workshops and user story creation to an outside provider of the platforms
• Testing changes prior to return to the business users for UAT
• New concepts in the user experience in retail stores, working closely with Japan on design and data
• Creation of project documentation and process flows decision trackers and risk management
• UAT planning/testing of all site changes and new functionality including Accessibility testing with screen readers
• Covering for Project Manager when out of business and all tasks undertaken by PM
• Day to day working alongside the ecomm team to enable day to day running and BAU issues needing resolution
• Liaising with other 3rd parties with regards to payment systems and email activations/subscriptions and Logistics
• Creation of user guides with regards to everyday tasks where missing

Business Analyst - Next Retail Plc - Enderby HQ

(2019-06 - 2021-03)

Business Analyst at Next Plc Enderby HQ working within the Retail stock and Logistics Dept using an Agile project methodology but with experience in the waterfall methodology and Prince 2. A huge part of the role was building and maintaining relationships internal and external. Prior to leaving was tasked with documenting the entire pricing system across all areas of Next with a view to rewriting and implementing a new central managed system.

• Attending and running requirements gathering workshops with the business to capture all business process needs and to create documentation requirements to create a solution
• Creating design documentation and user manuals to support all changes, some for Web based Applications such as Nimbus
• Creating wireframes using Balsamiq Wireframe Software to present to the business during sprint demos and retrospective meetings
• Sprint planning done within Azure Dev Ops system TFS
• Business process mapping to BPMN Notation Standards
• Project management meeting with other areas of the business to understand integration such as Instore processes and Ecommerce
• Understanding of Instore Till processes and Stock transfer processes, Warehouse Management
• Liaising with Testing team on creation of test scripts and testing plan to incorporate all changes
• Analysis of Mainframe programs and screen usage
• Gaining knowledge in Mainframe Programs, interfaces and application management

Applications Consultant - Capgemini Plc

(2016-05 - 2019-04)

Currently managing a team of 4, coaching, mentoring, end of year appraisals and setting of all Objectives in line with business goals and strategy. In a customer facing role up to Director level for 16+ years. Working on Major Aviation Engine Builder project performing all tasks to result in a smooth-running project team and all compliance with all client requirements. Working within client timescales and budget using all project Capgemini templates and methodologies.

• Project Lead PMO - The PMO delivers UPM/company compliance, with specific responsibility for maintaining Risk and Issue Logs
• Maintaining the Change log once a CR process is established
• Setting up and maintaining the Deliverables log
• Supporting the OTACE process