Senior Strategy Analyst

Senior Strategy Analyst

Department: Business Services - IT

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London

The Senior Strategy Analyst role helps the firm turn ideation, challenge and opportunity, into well‑defined, investable work packages that deliver measurable value for lawyers, clients, and business services. Sitting within the Technology function, the role leads structured discovery and analysis by applying a combined lens of financial, technological and user‑centric understanding. The role is accountable for producing decision‑grade outputs: clear problem statements, options appraisals, feasibility studies, decision trees, risk/fault‑tree analysis, business cases and adoption considerations, so leadership can confidently prioritise.

It requires strong relationship building and communication with partners, practice leaders and operational stakeholders to understand real needs and shape solutions that are usable, adoptable and commercially sound. The role also builds strong relationships across Technology delivery teams, security, data and the business to ensure feasibility and alignment from day one. Ultimately, this role accelerates the front end of the pipeline by improving the quality, speed and consistency of work identification and investment decisions.

• Lead early‑stage discovery to define problems, scope opportunities and shape work packages into clear, actionable initiatives.
• Produce options appraisals and recommendations that balance value, feasibility, risk and time‑to‑impact.
• Develop business cases and value hypotheses, including quantified benefits, costs, assumptions and sensitivity analysis.
• Build financial models (Cap Ex/OpEx, ROI, NPV where relevant) to support investment decisions and prioritisation.
• Assess emerging technology opportunities (e.g. AI, automation, data) and translate them into practical use cases.
• Apply user experience and behavioural science techniques to diagnose adoption barriers and design for sustained usage.
• Map and analyse workflows (legal and business services) to identify pain points, inefficiencies and automation potential.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to gather requirements, validate hypotheses and align on desired outcomes.
• Partner with architecture, security and data teams and the Office of the General Counsel to test feasibility and ensure solutions align with standards and guardrails.
• Define success measures and KPIs (value, adoption, quality, client impact) and embed these into delivery initiation.
• Support the governance process by preparing concise, decision‑ready packs for steering groups and investment forums.
• Maintain a prioritised pipeline of opportunities, ensuring initiatives are comparable through standard scoring and evidence.
• Conduct market and vendor research to benchmark solutions, costs and maturity, recommending buy/build/partner options.
• Create high‑quality briefs for delivery teams (outcomes, scope, constraints, dependencies) to reduce rework downstream.
• Build trusted relationships across the firm to act as a credible, neutral advisor on technology‑enabled change.

• Excellent experience in strategy, transformation, business analysis or consulting roles delivering early‑stage definition and decision support.
• Strong capability in financial analysis and business case development, with confidence in modelling costs/benefits and articulating assumptions.
• Experience assessing technology opportunities (including AI/automation/data) and translating them into practical, operational initiatives.
• Proven stakeholder management skills, including facilitating workshops and influencing senior decision‑makers in a partnership‑like environment.
• Experience applying user‑centred/behavioural approaches (e.g. journey mapping, adoption diagnostics) to improve uptake and outcomes.
• Familiarity with regulated or risk‑sensitive environments, ideally within legal or professional services (e.g. confidentiality, GDPR, patient/client impact).
• Track record of producing concise, high‑quality artefacts (options papers, investment cases, prioritisation packs) that enable fast decisions.
• Structured problem solving: breaks ambiguous…