Senior Manager - Business Analysis

TLT LLP; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

TLT LLP in Bristol is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analysis Manager to lead the Transformation and Operations team. The role requires attendance at the Bristol office 2 days a week in a full-time, permanent capacity, delivering strategic, operational and technology-enabled change across the firm.

You will manage a team of Business Analysts, drive best practice, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure initiatives deliver meaningful business outcomes and successful adoption.

Qualifications

• Deep practical knowledge of business analysis across strategic, operational and technology-enabled change.
• Experience leading and developing a professional team with performance management.
• Strong requirements elicitation, workshops, user-stories, process mapping and testing.
• Experience leading complex cross-organisational initiatives and stakeholder management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Ability to align analysis with Firm priorities and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Business Analyst team and drive best practice across initiatives.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders to enable collaboration and effective communication.
• Provide oversight for complex risks, issues and dependencies with clear recommendations.
• Ensure collaboration with Project Managers and IT teams to define robust requirements and solutions.
• Oversee requirements, user stories, process analysis and testing strategies from inception to post-implementation.
• Allocate resources across initiatives based on priorities, capacity and development opportunities.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Requirements elicitation

Team leadership

Cross-functional

Communication

Strategy alignment

Risk & governance

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Business Analysis Manager to join our Transformation and Operations team in Bristol. This role is being offered on a full-time, permanent basis, with a requirement to attend the Bristol office 2 days a week.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering strategic, operational and technology-enabled change across the firm. You'll lead a team of Business Analysts, drive best practice, and work with senior stakeholders to ensure change initiatives deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Your Role

You will be responsible for leading and developing our Business Analyst team while driving excellence across a diverse portfolio of change initiatives.

You will:

• Build trusted and credible relationships with internal and external stakeholders, enabling open communication, constructive challenge and effective collaboration throughout the delivery of change.
• Lead and develop a high-performing Business Analyst team, setting clear performance expectations, providing regular coaching and feedback, and creating a collaborative culture in which colleagues are supported to deliver consistently high-quality work.
• Provide effective oversight and direction across the team’s portfolio of work, acting as the escalation point for complex risks, issues and dependencies, identifying practical solutions and escalating matters with clear recommendations where wider decisions are required.
• Ensure the Business Analyst team works collaboratively with Project Managers, Change Managers and operational stakeholders to understand the underlying reasons for change, define robust requirements and agree practical solutions that address business needs and support successful adoption.
• Work in partnership with IT development teams to ensure robust software development lifecycle practices, enabling successful project delivery.
• Lead the business analysis activity on the most complex initiatives from inception through to post-implementation, ensuring requirements, user stories, process analysis, testing strategies and supporting documentation are clear, proportionate and enable the change to be successfully delivered and embedded.
• Allocate Business Analyst resources effectively across initiatives, making informed recommendations based on business priorities, project requirements, individual capability, capacity and development opportunities, in collaboration with portfolio and delivery leaders.
• Take accountability for the quality and consistency of business analysis across the full project lifecycle, ensuring activity complies with agreed governance, professional standards and the Firm’s values, while developing and embedding approaches that strengthen business analysis capability across the Firm.

Skills and Experience

• Deep practical knowledge of business analysis across strategic, operational and technology-enabled change, supported by substantial experience in a senior business analysis or professional leadership role.
• Strong capability across requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation, user-story development, process mapping, options analysis, UAT planning, testing and benefits definition.
• Experience of leading and developing a professional team, including performance expectations, coaching, work allocation, quality assurance and capability planning.
• Demonstrable experience of leading complex, cross-organisational initiatives and translating effectively between business and technical stakeholders.
• Highly developed influencing, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and handle ambiguity or competing priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and adapt style to different audiences.
• Strong strategic thinking, commercial awareness and judgement, with the ability to connect detailed analysis to wider Firm priorities and outcomes.
• Excellent workload, resource and priority management, with a consistent focus on quality, delivery and continuous improvement.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and

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Senior Manager - Business Analysis

Company: TLT LLP
Salary: £50 to £80 a year
Hours: Full-time
Location: Bristol, City of, BS1 5TR
Job type: Permanent
Posting date: 23 Oct 2026
Closing date: 20 Nov 2026

Summary

We're looking for an experienced Senior Business Analysis Manager to join our Transformation and Operations team in Bristol. This role is being offered on a full-time, permanent basis, with a requirement to attend the Bristol office 2 days a week.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in delivering strategic, operational and technology-enabled change across the firm. You'll lead a team of Business Analysts, drive best practice, and work with senior stakeholders to ensure change initiatives deliver meaningful business outcomes.