Event Content & Research Manager

Legal500 Germany Ranking; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services research platform is seeking an experienced Event Content & Research Manager to shape and direct global legal events. This role involves managing multiple programs, working with senior stakeholders, and leading a specialist team to enhance thought leadership in legal services. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in event content, excellent writing skills, and a commercial mindset. This position is hybrid, based in London or Bristol.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in event content, conference production or editorial research.
• Experience managing multiple programmes at pace.
• Legal or professional services experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, research, and editorial direction for legal events.
• Shape agendas and manage a specialist team.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders to enhance events.

Skills

Event content expertise

Strong writing skills

Analytical skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Commercial mindset

Job description

About Legal 500

Legal 500 was founded by John Pritchard in 1987 as the original clients’ guide to law firms, the first of its kind. It is now a data-driven, AI-optimised research platform which benchmarks, informs and connects providers and users of legal services in over 100 countries worldwide.

Our research and data are trusted and relied upon by corporate clients globally as an essential part of the process, both of instructing law firms with new mandates, and when reviewing existing mandates or panels.

We exist to empower both buyers and sellers in the international legal marketplace to make better decisions and have improved outcomes for their organisations. This is achieved by leveraging a trusted, comprehensive research process with a unique, vast, proprietary and constantly updated set of client-supplied data, unrivalled in the market.

On the supply side of the legal market, every year Legal 500’s team of over 150 researchers, technologists, data analysts, journalists and content specialists collate and review 60,000+ data-submissions from law firms and conduct interviews with thousands of leading law firm partners. On the demand side, Legal 500 analyses confidential data from 300,000+ commercial law firm clients to benchmark law firms and lawyers by practice area; industry; jurisdiction; as well as by proprietary client satisfaction metrics, NPS®, and other qualitative and quantitative criteria.

Legal 500 is the only source of this depth of global research and data on law firms, lawyers and their clients.

Event Content & Research Manager

About the role:

The Legal 500 is looking for an experienced Event Content & Research Manager to lead the strategy, research and editorial direction across our global portfolio of premium legal events.

This is a senior, hands‑on role for someone who combines conference production expertise with strong editorial judgement and a strategic mindset.

You’ll shape agendas, lead research‑driven content, manage a specialist team and work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure our events remain the leading platform for in‑house legal thought leadership.

You’ll take ownership of flagship programmes including the GC Powerlist Series, GC Summits and international roundtables, while also evolving how we engage our audience year‑round through insight, interviews and content innovation.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in event content, conference production or editorial research
• Strong writing, research and analytical skills
• Experience leading teams and managing multiple programmes at pace
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders, speakers and sponsors
• A commercial, audience‑first mindset
• Legal or professional services experience is highly desirable, but strong B2B event backgrounds will also be considered

Location

Location:

London or Bristol based

Hybrid working — Monday, Tuesday and Thursdays in the office.

International travel required