Head of Research
Legal Benchmarking Group (LBG) serves professionals across the financial, corporate, and professional services sectors, covering markets such as transactional legal advisory, consultancy, regulatory, and litigation.
We are a highly diversified business with services that support clients in their business development, strategic decision making, and workflow solutions. Under the parent company Delinian, LBG operates across three primary hubs (London, New York and Hong Kong) and works with customers in over 150 countries. The research department publishes market-leading information for legal professionals, in-house counsel, and industry leaders in core practice areas including international corporate financial law, international tax, intellectual property, life sciences law, and litigation/arbitration.
LBG prides itself on its PACE culture – Proactive, Agile, Customer-focused, Entrepreneurial – which enables knowledgeable professionals to do their best work. LBG also believes in autonomy, accountability, passion, and a sense of humour.
Delinian is a global B2B information-services portfolio business. Delinian’s brands provide actionable data, analysis, intelligence, and access in markets where information and convening market participants are valued. Delinian has over 2,200 employees located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. For more information on our parent company and our strategy, please visit: www.delinian.com
JOB PURPOSE
The Head of Research: Benchmark Litigation Europe (HoR) is the operational lead for Benchmark Europe research. Benchmark Litigation is a global brand, which benchmarks the leading law firms and lawyers across key disciplines in litigation and dispute resolution, and hosts industry awards for litigation specialists. The HoR will also take the lead on the Life Sciences EMEA Awards programme: a standalone, annual awards programme.
The HoR will have overall responsibility for managing the research that underpins all of Benchmark Litigation’s products in Europe and for the delivery of the Life Sciences EMEA awards. A key initial responsibility will be helping to relaunch Benchmark Litigation Europe in 2025 after several years of the programme being dormant.
The HoR will act as the key Europe point of contact for research, and is responsible for building, managing and nurturing programmes under their care. They must ensure that research is conducted to a high standard and by deadline, and that research decisions have been made in adherence with the LBG’s methodologies and criteria. They will also support in the development and evolution of LBG’s overarching research strategy. The HoR may also support on wider projects spearheaded by the research department where required.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensuring research is completed to a high standard and on deadline
- Planning research: working with stakeholders to define delivery milestones; building a production plan and a release calendar to meet those milestones
- Creating and delivering content for research announcements and webinars
- Delivering progress reports, with regular updates to key stakeholders
- Promoting the brand and developing strong relationships in the market through engagement with lawyers – including in person meetings – and business development professionals
- Supporting in the design and development of all research strategies, both qualitative and quantitative (ie surveys), to support quality and growth
- Attending and presenting at industry events and conferences
INTERFACES
- Daily – Director of EMEA Research
- Regular – Benchmark Head of Research (US-based), Benchmark research stakeholders, Life Sciences US research team, commercial and marketing leads, Europe heads of research
- Ad hoc – Director of Global Research, Managing Director
- Regular/ad hoc: legal professionals, business development professionals, and communications and public relations specialists from law firms and in-house legal departments
ATTRIBUTES
- Strong communication skills, with an ability to explain goals, methodology and criteria in clear terms to internal and external stakeholders and present to a room of people
- A proactive, agile and entrepreneurial approach with a customer-focused mindset
- A great listener and willing learner
- An analytical thinker
- Highly organised
- Calm under pressure, with an ability to deliver to deadline, prioritise, and multi-task
- Excellent written and spoken English
EXPERIENCE
- 3-5 years’ experience in a qualitative research role
- 1-2 years’ experience managing research projects
- Experience in the professional services industry
- Sourcing, managing, organising and analysing large volumes of data
- Writing structured reports and editorial copy
- Phone and face-to-face interviewing in a research and/or journalistic capacity
- Working collaboratively with sales/business development team
- A strong competency with Excel
- Note taking skills
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- Job Family Product Content & Data
- Pay Type Salary
- Employment Indicator Permanent
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