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Centrica • United Kingdom

MI Business Consultant

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
96%

Location flexibility

92%

Hours flexibility

88%

Autonomy

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Job Description

Join us, be part of more.

We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet. We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that's energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities. Here, you can find more purpose, more passion, and more potential. That’s why working here is #MoreThanACareer. We do energy differently - we do it all. We make it, store it, move it, sell it, and mend it.

About your team:

At British Gas, our mission is to sell it and mend it.

We’re the household heroes powering 1 in 3 homes in the UK – but supplying energy is just part of what we do. We’re making the UK’s homes greener and more energy efficient, together with our friends at Hive. By using their clever tech like thermostats, heat pumps, solar panels and EV chargers, we’re making it cheaper and easier to reduce your home’s carbon-footprint. And with our Peak Save programme, we’re actively rewarding better energy use too.

MI Business Consultant

At British Gas, we have one of the best-known brands in the country (with 95% brand awareness). We have a family of door-opening brands that are the envy of many, and we’re really excited about the future.

Why? Because we’re evolving to become a truly purpose-led organisation, Energising a greener, fairer future.

To get where we’re going, we are seeking a talented MI Business Consultant to join our Services Data team. You will assist the Data Delivery Manager in implementing & continually developing stakeholder engagement models that support collaborative work to identify and prioritise high value data & reporting requirements that solve key business questions.

Location: We have people working all over the UK in a range of office locations as well as offering flexible home working (travel to an office expected circa once a month for team days as a minimum).

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows:

  • Competitive salary and bonus potential

  • Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap

  • Pension scheme

  • Company Funded Healthcare Plan

  • 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days

  • Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

On a day-to-day basis you will:

  • Develop and maintain engagement mechanisms across all our customers designed to prioritise the high-value requirements through robust demand management.

  • Continuously deliver quality requirement specifications based on robust business analysis techniques and models, producing reporting wireframes in co-ordination with stakeholders.

  • Assisting with estimation of resourcing that support practical delivery timescales and communicate these back to stakeholders.

  • Accountable for the delivery of solutions though all development life-cycle stages within agreed timescales and managing & maintaining a central live log of progress for both stakeholder (Data Delivery Portal) & internal (ADO) use.

  • Support governance processes such as maintaining and updating a central business rule repository with logic defined & agreed in the captured specifications.

  • To be a point of expertise in Centrica & national GDPR guidelines, particularly in the processing, storage and sharing of Personal Identifiable Information, assisting he business in completing Personal Information Assessments where needed.

  • Assisting in the development of front-end solutions which could include new or amended data architecture, curated data solutions or new / amended reporting (inc. Self-Serve solutions).

What we need from you:

  • Experience of working with large enterprise data sets that support growth and efficiency within a large company.

  • Expert in documenting complex, detailed data & reporting requirements.

  • Demonstrable understanding of system / database structures & processes and use of reporting tools (such as PowerBI) to meet identified business questions & needs.

  • Understanding of coding (for example SQL or Spark) would be and advantage, but not essential.

  • Desirable to have some knowledge of data governance guidelines & processes (for example GDPR).

  • Proactive approach with excellent stakeholder engagement & management skills across all levels of business (from directors to technical experts).

  • Ability to work across a portfolio of projects at any one time within a deadline driven high-pressure environment.

Our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world, for everyone.

#MoreThanACareer

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too. Visit the link below to discover why we’re a great place to work and what being part of more means for you.

https://www.morethanacareer.energy/britishgas

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority.


Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.

Company benefits

Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Enhanced sick days
Flexible working week
Enhanced sick pay
Gym membership
Health insurance
Mental health platform access
Compassionate leave
Dental coverage
Fertility treatment leave
Buy or sell annual leave
Optional unpaid leave
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Carer’s leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Cycle to work scheme
Equity packages
Life insurance
Annual pay rises
Share options
Financial coaching
Employee discounts
Volunteer days
Company car
Travel loan
Enhanced pension match/contribution

We asked employees of Centrica what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
92%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
82%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
79%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
83%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
88%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
80%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
82%
Employees feel like the company culture is brilliantly inclusive and equitable
Culture
84%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
85%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
72%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Centrica

Company employees

20,000

Gender diversity (male:female)

68:32

Currently Hiring Countries

Denmark

Ireland

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Awards & Achievements

2nd – Large companies

2nd – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
3rd – Consumer Goods

3rd – Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023

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