Senior Strategy Analyst
Department: Business Services - IT
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: London
Description
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.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 (CapEx/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.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 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 problems into clear hypotheses, workstreams, and decision points, using non-technical language to simplify problems.
- Commercial judgement: capable of synthesising financial, technological, and user-experience based considerations into a coherent commercial proposition which can be benchmarked and compared.
- Stakeholder empathy and influence: capable of building trust rapidly and working with complex stakeholder groups across a partnership, adapting communication style across legal, business, and technical stakeholders.
- Evidence-led and curious: leverages quantitative and qualitative data to challenge preconceptions and build use-cases.
- Clear communicator: comfortable delivering written recommendations or verbal briefs from exec leadership to end-users.
- Facilitation capability: happy designing, running, or supporting with workshops throughout the design phase.
- Pragmatism: cognisant of balancing innovation ambition with feasibility, operational reality, and time-to-value.
- Resilience under ambiguity: Comfortable working in early stages where requirements and answers are rapidly evolving.
Additional Information
As a Disability Confident Scheme employer, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage (including the application, assessment or interview process), please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence with the vacancy reference in the subject line, and we’ll be happy to help.
