Senior Research Associate, Legal Sector
Full time
at Group8 Global
in
Online
Posted on May 8, 2024
Job details
Senior Research Associate (Legal Sector) - UK & International
- Outstanding opportunity for a Senior Research Associate to join an International Consultancy business.
- Be part of a creative, collaborative, and entrepreneurial business and team.
- Act as a leader and subject matter expert within the private sector, undertaking challenging research and market intelligence briefs alongside aspects of content creation for a global audience.
- Flexible location: the current team is based across the UK so will consider UK-wide and other international locations given the firm operates on a global basis (either on a remote or hybrid basis which can be adaptable to the right individual).
- Taking the lead on large research tasks predominantly for the Lateral Partner search team including mapping complex international legal markets, and relevant firms, and identifying individual partners that fit the client’s brief ready for approach
- Critical Research: conducting deep dives into the legal markets and relevant practice areas where the firm’s clients wish to grow their existing capabilities
- Providing the Lateral Partner search team and International Legal division with market intelligence gathering on projects that can differ in complexity, topics and output requirements
- Global Ownership: driving the firm’s legal intelligence agenda and helping to build out the internal market intelligence capabilities and organisational setup like processes, communications, knowledge management and training
- Content Creation: Gathering sources from a global context, analysing them, and producing engaging, fun, and interesting content for our client base including blog posts, website content and LinkedIn posts
- Data Synthesis & Reporting: Closely monitoring legal market trends, salary data, and performance data to produce market data reports for the firm’s global client list. Effectively presenting key research findings to other team members
- You will have a background within legal research and data insights, possibly from a law firm or gained within the field of human resources, and recruitment. The successful individual may also come from a media background producing content for legal news publications or similar
- We would also welcome applications from researchers and content creators for any providers of legal and regulatory intelligence or International Legal Analysis (for example LexisNexis, Westlaw, Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions and similar)
- Some legal education and background preferred, but not essential
- Excellent research skills, critical thinking, high attention to detail and a desire to become a Subject Matter Expert
- A passion for delivering excellence in everything that you produce whether it’s a discrete market map or a complex market intelligence report for a key client
- A keen interest in the global legal landscape
- ‘Hands-on’ mentality with the ability to prioritise and work under pressure when needed
- An engaging communication style: how you communicate your market knowledge to clients and candidates, is fundamental to how this firm adds value to its clients
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