Senior Research Associate, Legal Sector

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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).

We are pleased to bring to market this exclusive role for a Senior Research Associate operating within a well-regarded executive search business focused on international mandates.

Our client is seeking a talented professional, skilled in complex research who can balance multiple search tasks at one time often with a cross-border element. The successful individual will also have a flair for market intelligence gathering and content creation, communicating effectively with team members and clients to deliver results with professionalism and integrity.

The opportunity is offered on a full-time permanent basis with a high degree of flexibility on location. As well as a market-appropriate remuneration package, you can expect a challenging and rewarding journey and career.

About the Client

The brand is a well-regarded global career and growth consultancy focused on the legal sector. The team acts for a small group of global firms and corporates working directly with their executive management teams to support their growth ambitions around the world, and acts for senior professionals in helping them make transformational career moves overseas.

The successful individual will be joining a team that is passionate about building dynamic, diverse, and ground-breaking legal teams and will be part of a boutique practice that brings together lawyers of the highest caliber with the technical knowledge and industry experience to take their clients to the next level of their growth journey.

With over 40 years of global experience, the business brings together recognised and trusted experts in legal search, coaching, strategy and resourcing to facilitate the vision and growth objectives of their clients. The team has placed partners and senior lawyers into a network of ‘best-in-class’ law firms spanning the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East.

The Senior Research Associate Opportunity

The role includes:

• 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

Specific Requirements

• 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

Group8 Global: Group8 is a strategic search business – we specialise in creating choices, unlocking, and maximising potential for talented professionals and ambitious organisations. Our clients retain us exclusively to support them advancing their growth ambitions. We don’t work on “the average” brief but those which are a bit unique - where the acquisition requires a high performer with a unique combination of skills. All our successfully completed mandates have had a transformative impact – on the team, function, our client and on the individual’s career.

To find out more or to schedule a confidential discovery discussion in relation to this Senior Research Associate role, please contact James Mills:

Note to Applicants: Thank you very much for taking the time to consider and apply to this role - we very much appreciate your interest. We will respond to you in due course once we have undertaken our internal review process.