Senior Manager, Business Analysis

The job at a glance  

Lead and grow Stepstone’s Business Analysis team, setting standards for discovery and requirements quality across complex initiatives and roadmap work. The Business Analysis function sits at the intersection of Business, Product, and Technology, partnering closely with Product and Tech to enable effective discovery, prioritisation, solution design, and delivery.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the BA function: own the vision, operating model, and best practices for business analysis across Stepstone.
• Partner with Product and Tech: build strong relationships with Product and Technology leadership to align on goals, scope, feasibility, and delivery approach.
• Ensure strong discovery and requirements: oversee gap analysis, stakeholder alignment, and requirements definition for complex initiatives, ensuring work is ready for development teams.
• Develop the team: line-manage, coach, and grow Business Analysts; implement skills and career frameworks; build a culture of continuous improvement and analytical excellence.
• Set governance and consistency: put in place lightweight governance for requirements capture and analysis that balances autonomy with cross-company consistency.

Your skills and qualifications: 

• Significant experience leading the Business Analysis function in large, complex, fast-paced organisations.
• Strong people leadership: building, coaching, and scaling high-performing Business Analysis teams.
• Proven ability to assess business analysis and organisational maturity, identify systemic issues, and drive improvement in analysis quality and outcomes.
• Expert in discovery and requirements (elicitation, validation, refinement) for complex initiatives and change.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication: able to align Business, Product, and Tech leaders and translate insights into actionable analysis artefacts and clear requirements. 

Your benefits 

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays   
• Private medical and dental healthcare   
• Pension contribution up to 10%   
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme  
• Life Assurance Cover  
• Cycle to work scheme   
• Hybrid working model   
• Volunteering days   
• and you can bring your dog to the office!   

Our commitment 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic. 

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work — both locally and internationally, including:  

• Armed Forces Covenant: Bronze Award, Employer Recognition Scheme 
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award 
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work 
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024 
• Stonewall: Gold Award 
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)