Research Planning Manager at Legal 500
- Company: Legal 500
- Location: Leeds
- Employment type: Full Time
- Posted: 2026-09-22
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
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