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Vacancy: Business Analyst
Are you analytical, detail-oriented, and passionate about turning data into meaningful business insights?
Do you enjoy working with stakeholders, solving problems, and supporting fact-based decision-making?
Damen Shipyards Group, established in 1927, is a 100% Dutch family-owned international organization comprising 34 shipbuilding and repair yards. With a workforce of over 12,000 employees worldwide, the Group operates through a divisional structure consisting of seven divisions and a central holding company.
Damen Middle East Shared Services Limited, based in the United Arab Emirates, forms part of Damen Global Support. The entity provides specialized support services to the various divisions of the Damen Shipyards Group in key areas such as IT, Finance, Audit, Legal, and Compliance.
Purpose of the Role
The Business Analyst supports Damen Shipyards Group in making fact based, data driven decisions by translating complex business questions into reliable insights, standardized datasets, and actionable dashboards. By rationalizing the decision-making process with your quantifications and visualizations, management will be able to make better decisions. Through your helicopter view and excellent reporting skills, you are able to identify the root causes of problems, in close cooperation with the business owner. You will translate the business needs into actionable user stories for team members to work with.
Operating at Group level, the role bridges business, finance, IT, and management, ensuring consistent KPI definitions, high quality data products, and strong adoption of analytics solutions across the organization.
Therefore, you are capable of translating business needs into technical tasks with IT (tools) and other expertise. You stand for the quality of the information and the visibility of this. Your analyses will support business decisions. This implies converting business expectations into data analysis. You perform statistical analysis of data, create visualizations of analyzed data and processes, and you have the ability to look at things in a different way and recognizing patterns.
Position in the Organization
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Analysis & Insight Generation
2. Requirements Management & Agile Delivery
3. Data Governance & Quality
4. Stakeholder Management & Change Enablement
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications and Experience
Core Competencies

Are you ready to sail into a new adventure?
Damen was established by two brothers back in 1927. Today, with more than 12,000 employees, operating over 35 shipbuilding and repair yards, the Damen Shipyards Group has earned a leading position in the shipbuilding world. We are an international company that is, at heart, still a family business with family values and a deep respect for our maritime heritage. It is our aim to combine our proven standardisation with the innovations of digitalisation to become the world’s most sustainable shipbuilder
Newbuild
Damen has delivered more than 6,500 vessels in 100 countries and delivers some 175 vessels annually to customers worldwide. Damen’s focus on standardisation, modular construction and keeping vessels on stock leads to short delivery times, low total cost of ownership and reliable performance. We offer a wide range of products including tugs, naval and patrol vessels, high speed craft, ferries, dredging, offshore vessels and superyachts.
Shiprepair & conversion
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion (DSC) has a worldwide network of 18 repair and conversion yards with drydocks ranging up to 420 x 80 metres. DSC yards have extensive experience – completing more than 1,300 projects every year, from normal drydockings for scheduled maintenance to damage repair, right up to extensive refit and conversion projects.
Services
Being active in the maritime industry demands continuous vessel reliability. For nearly all vessel types Damen offers a broad range of services, including maintenance, spare parts delivery, training and the transfer of shipbuilding know-how.
Components
Damen is also specialised in the design and production of various marine components including propeller nozzles, rudders, special towing winches, anchors, anchor chains and steel works.
Always looking for talent
At Damen we are always looking for professionals, starters and students with a passion for ships. We offer challenging jobs, internships, premium placements or graduation projects both locally and globally, in various job areas.
Investing in talent
As professionals we offer you the ideal environment to continuously develop yourself both technically and personally by coaching you on the job and through various programmes found in the Damen Academy.
We also offer students diverse unique opportunities to get to know the Damen Shipyards Group. Boost your personal development, even before beginning your professional career, through various events and activities.
“Damen has always been a company with a clear focus on innovation. From ground-breaking concepts such as standardised shipbuilding to advanced products such as the SEA Axe Hull, innovation has provided the means for Damen to grow into an established global group of companies.”
We are active across the entire maritime sector and offer jobs in different areas allowing you to grow, develop and define your own career. Whether you are looking for a job in Sales, Design & Proposal, Engineering, Research & Development, Yard Support or Project Management, we will do our best to find the right fit in our Newbuild, Shiprepair & Conversion, Services or Components activities.
Steer your own career
From the first day you join our company, you will have the freedom and responsibility to steer your own course. Damen stands for challenging jobs, personal and professional development and for numerous career opportunities. And, above all, it’s fun to work at Damen!
Are you up for the challenge? Are you a team player who likes to work independently and thinks critically and are you ready to take the lead? Then feel welcome at Damen and spend your future best years with us!
‘’We want to become the most sustainable shipbuilders in the world. Our ambitions lie in circularity and zero-emission sailing!’’
Facts about
Number of employees: 9.000+
Sector: Yacht building, Marine Energy, Maritime, Offshore, Shipbuilding & repair
Preferred educational level: Vmbo, Mbo, Hbo, Wo bachelor, Wo master
Career level: Student, Starter (< 3 years), Young professional (3-5 years), Professional (5-10 years), Senior professional (>10 years)
Preferred education: Marine technology, mechanical engineering, offshore engineering, electrical engineering, civil engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, marine officer, ICT, information technology
Open vacancies: Check career.damen.com