Researcher

Tlt Llp; Highgate; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the UK seeks a Researcher to join its Research Team. The role involves conducting comprehensive business research to support lawyers and clients, enhancing decision-making and business development efforts. Candidates should possess a degree in Business or a related field, alongside strong online research and analytical skills. This full-time position features flexible working arrangements across several offices, with opportunities to engage in both legal and business research.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Business, Research, or Information Management.
• Experience in B2B research within a professional services environment.
• Ability to draft and edit informative summaries.
• Strong analytical ability to identify key insights from data.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research to provide insights to support lawyers and colleagues.
• Liaise with Marketing & Business Development for research needs.
• Support business development activities and strategic projects.
• Regularly monitor industry news for relevant developments.
• Empower users to engage with research resources effectively.

Skills

Business research expertise

Knowledge management

Online research skills

Analytical skills

Time management

Inter-personal communication

Technical writing skills

Collaboration and teamwork

Education

Degree in Business or related field

Job description

Job Description

We are recruiting for a Researcher in our Research Team, based at one of the following offices (Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow or Belfast) with flexible working. Our Researchers work closely with colleagues across all parts of our business, helping to turn data and information into insight to support our clients. The Research Team, with the firm's Knowledge Lawyers, deliver both legal and business research to support client activity, business development and sector and strategic research. This is a permanent full‑time role attached to a TLT Office in the Research Team, which sits within the Managed Legal Services group.

Responsibilities

• Undertake a full range of business research to help our lawyers and colleagues across the business better understand our clients and the sectors and markets they operate in. Working with Researcher colleagues this may include producing company profiles, sector and market research, and competitive intelligence research.
• Liaise with and support our Marketing & Business Development colleagues in their research and information needs.
• Provide research support to the Research Manager (Business Intelligence) to assist with business development activities and firm strategic projects as required. Help develop regular business research insights and analysis to support decision making and commercial opportunities.
• Provide research support to the Research Manager (Legal) to assist with current awareness and horizon scanning when required.
• Use technology to regularly monitor economic, business and industry news to identify developments and trends that impact the legal market, our clients, sectors and markets of interest.
• Empower end users across TLT to engage with and maximise usage of our business and company research resources effectively through trialling, promotion and training.
• Support and advise on knowledge sharing behaviours amongst the wider firm.

Qualifications and Skills

• A degree or equivalent professional experience in Business, Research, or Information / Knowledge Management (or relevant discipline).
• Understands B2B / secondary / desktop research and has relevant experience of knowledge, information and research in a professional services environment. Knowledge of and experience applying business and competitive intelligence analysis frameworks is desirable.
• Highly experienced and confident in undertaking online research using a wide variety of business databases and news sources.
• Ability to develop a good understanding of the work of TLT's sectors and groups to appreciate internal clients' information needs, to identify relevant knowledge and effectively draft/edit summaries and disseminate such content.
• Build a credible reputation as a trusted adviser on business research matters, both within the immediate team and amongst internal clients.
• Manage demanding workloads with strict deadlines.
• Possess exceptional time management, planning and organisational skills, a methodical approach and attention to detail.
• Strong inter‑personal communication skills with the ability to effectively scope research requests from clients, negotiate deadlines and present research results at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent written and technical skills to deliver results in relevant formats including data‑driven analysis, written reports and presentations. Experience contributing to professional reports and/or written content is desirable.
• Analytical ability, particularly an ability to summarise and analyse large amounts of information and draw out key insights. Experience with infographics, data analytics or visualisations is desirable.
• Work flexibly as a collaborative and supportive team member and be able to work independently using own initiative when required, maintaining a positive, solutions‑focused attitude.

About TLT Managed Legal Services

TLT identified the creation of the Managed Legal Service team as a critical element of the firm's strategy. Managed Legal Services is a rapidly growing team that provides a range of services and legal resources supporting all business groups across the firm. MLS sits firmly at the centre of the TLT future way of working and will enable the firm to:

• Meet client expectations relating to our operational expertise and capabilities.
• Enable us to improve our competitiveness and the value offered to our clients.
• Diversify our product offerings; increasing our responsiveness to future opportunities.