IT Business Analyst Apprentice - ECOLAB UK
Ecolab
Cheshire (CW8 4DX)
Closes on Sunday 31 May 2026
Posted on 19 March 2026
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Summary
Will support the Digital function in improving data quality, strengthening digital processes, and contributing to initiatives tied to mobile services, device lifecycle, and enterprise data governance. With a structured training (20% off‑the‑job) while gaining hands‑on exp across Digital, ServiceNow, Mobile Services, and Data Management teams
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
- Training course
- Business analyst (level 4)
- Hours
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Working hours be from 8.30am-4.30pm, Monday to Friday.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 30 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Validate CMDB entries sourced from MDM, ensuring completeness, consistency, accuracy, and correct timestamps.
- Support automated onboarding of customer and device data, ensuring metadata is accurate in the CMDB.
- Support workshops, requirements gathering, and cross-functional sessions to understand business needs and pain points.
- Contribute to both waterfall and agile delivery approaches depending on project needs.
- Act as a liaison between business units, IT, platform owners, and MDM teams to ensure alignment on data and process requirements.
- Participate in testing phases to validate tool functionality and data mapping logic.
- Work with Digital Asset Teams, Mobile Services, Engineering, and key divisions such as Pest, Institutional, Supply Chain, and FSS.
Prepare data quality dashboards and summaries to highlight risk areas and improvement opportunities. - And other related duties, with guidance and training provided.
Where you'll work
Winnington Avenue
Northwich
Cheshire
CW8 4DX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
APPRENTICE TEAM LTD
Training course
Business analyst (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
- Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
- Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
- Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
- Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
- Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
- Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
- Elicit process information from stakeholders
- Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
- Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
- Produce models of redesigned business processes
- Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
- Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
- Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
- Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
- Validate requirements with stakeholders
- Support the establishment of requirements traceability
- Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
- Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
- Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
- Support the development of models of future state business situations
- Identify key differences between current and future business situations
- Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
- Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
- Support business acceptance of business and system changes
- Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
- Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
- Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
- Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
- Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience
- Apply appropriate approaches to scope, plan and perform Business Analysis
- Communicate effectively in a variety of situations with a range of stakeholders
- Apply a range of structured investigation techniques to a business situation
- Produce an outline definition of a business situation using an appropriate technique
- Apply appropriate techniques to identify problems and opportunities within a business situation
- Support the identification and presentation of proposed actions to stakeholders in order to gain agreement for further analysis activity
- Apply appropriate techniques to analyse and document options and recommendations for change
- Elicit process information from stakeholders
- Model business processes using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
- Analyse business process models to identify opportunities for improvement
- Produce models of redesigned business processes
- Elicit requirements from stakeholders to identify business and user needs
- Document clear functional and non-functional requirements in line with local standards
- Analyse documented requirements to remove duplication, conflict and overlap
- Prioritise requirements using an appropriate prioritisation approach
- Validate requirements with stakeholders
- Support the establishment of requirements traceability
- Elicit business data needs from relevant sources
- Support the development of simple data models using relevant techniques, standards, notation and software tools
- Document current business situations to enable gap analysis and decision making
- Support the development of models of future state business situations
- Identify key differences between current and future business situations
- Identify actions required to move from the current to future business situation
- Define acceptance criteria for business and system changes
- Support business acceptance of business and system changes
- Apply relevant techniques to research and identify stakeholders
- Analyse and document stakeholders' areas of interest and influence
- Support the development of cost/benefit analysis for proposed business changes
- Evaluate and document the key impacts on people, process, organisation, technology and information
- Present information in a manner appropriate to the audience
Training schedule
With ATL will be virtual and on the job.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- Ability to work independently
Other requirements
- ServiceNow, CMDB and MDM concepts.
- BI reporting tools.
- MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
- Basics of API and data flows.
- Exposure to automation and data governance frameworks.
About this employer
Nalco is part of the Ecolab Group of Companies Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services. Every day, they help make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – protecting people and vital resources. Ecolab works with customers in more than 40 industries to help ensure operational efficiency, safety, sustainability, product quality and guest satisfaction.
After this apprenticeship
The Business Analyst Apprentice will support the Digital function in improving data quality, strengthening digital processes, and contributing to initiatives tied to mobile services, device lifecycle, and enterprise data governance. This role will receive structured training (20% off‑the‑job) while gaining hands‑on experience across Digital, ServiceNow, Mobile Services, and Data Management teams.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
Ecolab
Astrid Aristoy Olivos
astrid.aristoy@ecolab.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000020845.
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Closes on Sunday 31 May 2026
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