Legal 500
1 month ago
Research Manager
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Company information
- Company
- Legal 500
- Location
- Leeds Germany
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
About Legal 500
Legal 500 is a global legal market research, data and intelligence business. Our research helps corporate clients make informed decisions about legal representation and gives law firms insight into their market position, performance, and clients.
Beyond research, we’re building a growing data, benchmarking, market-intelligence and subscription service offering. We bring the legal market together through a global programme of events - awards ceremonies, conferences and roundtables that convene leading law firms, in-house teams and their advisers. And through Legal Business, our journalistic title, we deliver independent news, analysis and commentary on the business of law and the strategy, performance and leadership of the world’s leading law firms.
We are a growing, multi-site organisation, with colleagues working across research, data, technology, product, journalism, commercial and events in London, Leeds and Bristol.
About the role:
The Research Manager role is central to Legal 500’s strategic growth, leading the delivery of high-quality, lawyer-led coverage of our global market. Based in our new Leeds office, you will manage a team of Research Analysts, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of editorial projects, and fostering a high-performing, supportive team culture.
This is a hands-on leadership position that combines people management, project oversight, and stakeholder engagement. You will work closely with our Senior Editors and Chief Research Officer, alongisde commercial colleagues to identify priority markets, manage research cycles, maintain quality standards, and build relationships with partner-level lawyers and business development teams in leading law firms.
The role requires excellent organisational skills, a proactive and results-driven mindset, and the ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
What we're looking for:
The ideal candidate will be a proven people manager with strong communication skills, able to motivate and coach a team while delivering complex projects to schedule. You will be comfortable working independently, confident in decision-making, and able to build credibility with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.
Essential experience:
Proven line management experience, including performance reviews and development planning
Track record of delivering project-based work to deadlines
Experience in research-led, editorial, or data-informed environments
Comfortable operating independently in a deadline-driven context
Desirable experience:
Background in market research, publishing, insight generation, or similar industries
Exposure to professional services, B2B environments, or legal markets (advantageous but not essential)
Experience liaising with commercial or client-facing teams
From a competency perspective, we’re looking for someone who is:
An effective supervisor: sets clear goals, motivates the team, and delivers constructive feedback
A strong communicator: able to engage confidently with law firm partners, business development professionals, and internal stakeholders
Results-oriented: able to keep projects on track and maintain team focus across competing deadlines
Organised and detail-oriented: ensures all research output meets accuracy and consistency standards
A relationship builder: credible, approachable, and able to maintain strong professional relationships at all levels
Adaptable and resilient: thrives in a fast-moving environment and responds positively to change
A culture contributor: fosters an inclusive, respectful, and high-performing team culture
Role information:
This role is based in Leeds (central location, close to Leeds station)
Hybrid working – 3 days a week in the office, 2 days remote
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Required skills
- accuracy
- technology
- remote
- leadership
- analysis
- commercial
- quality standards
- communication skills
- team management
- organisational skills
- project oversight
- strategy
- market research
- performance reviews
- resilient
- office
- research
- data
- people management
- proactive
- results-oriented
- supervisor
- events
- fast-paced environment
- performance
- product
- decision-making
- stakeholder engagement
- benchmarking
- motivate
- conferences
- schedule
- detail-oriented
- adaptable
- london
- complex projects
- bristol
- leadership position
- hybrid working
- organised
- professional services
- strategic growth
- b2b environments
- coach
- intelligence
- relationship builder
- people manager
- results-driven mindset
- approachable
- project-based work
- journalism
- senior stakeholders
- corporate clients
- advisers
- law firms
- team focus
- news
- journalistic
- strong communicator
- commentary
- editorial
- high-quality
- publishing
- professional relationships
- constructive feedback
- supportive team culture
- inclusive
- respectful
- leeds
- internal stakeholders
- high-performing
- development planning
- legal market
- global market
- line management
- roundtables
- clear goals
- insight generation
- awards ceremonies
- working independently
- credibility
- fast-moving environment
- client-facing teams
- legal business
- in-house teams
- business development teams
- subscription service
- editorial projects
- research analysts
- research manager
- market-intelligence
- business of law
- multi-site organisation
- lawyer-led coverage
- leeds office
- senior editors
- chief research officer
- commercial colleagues
- priority markets
- research cycles
- partner-level lawyers
- competing deadlines
- research-led
- data-informed environments
- deadline-driven context
- legal markets
- law firm partners
- business development professionals
- consistency standards
- positive to change
- culture contributor
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