Legal Operations Analyst

The Legal Operations Analyst helps Broughton Partners run its core value streams (Claimant Journey, Referral Firm Journey, and Litigating Firm Journey) with clear goals, trusted metrics, and current documentation. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role spends its first 3 months rotating through Marketing, Intake, Criteria, Claimant Services, Law Firm Relations, and Strategic Programs to learn how each department works, how work and information move between them, and how a case type moves from an early test to an established product on the rate card.

The role owns the company's goal alignment and scorecard program: making sure every department SMART goal ties to the yearly strategic objective, has one agreed definition and owner, and is visible on a dashboard leaders actually use. The Operations Analyst does not build data pipelines. They define what needs to be measured, write clear requirements, and partner with the Technology data team and the Mar Tech team, who build and certify the underlying data.

They also help keep cross-departmental documentation and change communication current, so that when a process, case type, or partner requirement changes, every affected team knows what changed and why.

The ideal candidate is curious about how the whole business fits together, earns trust quickly as a neutral partner to every department, asks good questions, and explains what the numbers mean in plain language. This role is a service to the departments it supports: it exists to reduce one-off questions, repeated meetings, and confusion during change, not to audit or second-guess department leaders.

Essential Functions/Duties Performed Regularly:

Cross-Department Rotation and Business Immersion Complete a structured rotation through Intake, Criteria, Claimant Services (QA and Claimant Support), Law Firm Relations, Marketing, and Strategic Programs on a schedule set by the COO with each department director

Shadow the work directly: agent calls and surveys, QA audits, case delivery, survey and product builds, partner business reviews, campaign launches, and order and consortium workflows

For each department, document its purpose, core process map, inputs and outputs, handoffs to other teams, the metrics it is measured on, and its top three friction points

Deliver a rotation readout to the COO and the department director at the end of each rotation, including at least one practical improvement the department agrees to pursue

Strategic Goal Alignment and Scorecard Build and maintain the company scorecard that maps every department SMART goal to the yearly strategic objective: revenue growth, revenue diversification, operational and fiscal efficiency, happy clients and stakeholders, tort health, referral firm portal adoption, and compliance leadership

Flag goals that do not support a strategic objective, and strategic objectives that no department goal is moving, and bring them to the COO and directors for a decision

Review SMART goals with each director to confirm they are specific, measurable, owned, realistic, and time-bound, and that department goals do not conflict with one another

Partner with HR on keeping job-spec KPIs consistent with department SMART goals, and facilitate the quarterly goal refresh

Dashboard Coverage and Metric Definitions Ensure every SMART goal on the scorecard has one agreed definition, an owning director, a data source, a target, a review cadence, and a dashboard

Write clear dashboard and metric requirements for the Technology data team and Mar Tech team, who build, validate, and certify the underlying data; track requests through delivery

Maintain the dashboard registry and metric dictionary as the single reference for what each metric means and where to find itSpot-check dashboards against source systems, identify conflicting versions of the same metric, and route defects to the data team or the owning director

Recommend dashboards and recurring reports to retire when they duplicate certified reporting

Value Stream and Case Type Documentation Maintain end-to-end process documentation for the Claimant Journey, Referral Firm Journey, and Litigating Firm Journey, including who owns each stage and what is handed off between departments

Help departments keep cross-functional case type reference information current, including the lifecycle stage of each case type, the information each department contributes, and where the source of truth lives

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