Research Planning Manager

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

This is a newly created role that will take ownership of planning, scheduling and delivery coordination across multiple research projects.

You'll act as the central point of contact for research timetables, ensuring stakeholders have visibility over deadlines, risks are identified early, and delivery remains on track.

The role would suit someone with strong project planning, scheduling or operations experience who enjoys bringing structure to complex programmes and working with a wide range of stakeholders.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

- Own and maintain master schedules across multiple research projects

- Ensure timelines remain realistic, achievable and visible

- Coordinate planning activities across teams and stakeholders

- Monitor progress against key milestones and deadlines

- Identify delivery risks and implement mitigation plans

- Manage timetable changes and communicate updates clearly

- Produce planning reports and scheduling insights

- Analyse delivery data to support future planning decisions

- Drive continuous improvement across planning processes

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- Experience managing complex schedules, programmes or project plans

- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills

- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders

- Excellent communication skills

- Strong attention to detail

- Ability to identify risks and solve problems proactively

- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment

- Strong analytical skills with the ability to make data-driven recommendations

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience within publishing, professional services, research, operations or project delivery environments

- Experience managing multiple concurrent projects or portfolios

Location: Leeds (Hybrid 3 days in office 2 days from home)

Hours: 9:30am - 5:30pm