About Legal 500

We are looking for a Talent Partner to join us initially for three months (fixed term contract) to help identify and attract top talent to join the Legal 500 team. We currently have a talent team of two, sitting within a wider People and Business Operations department, and we are looking for short-term support to help us meet our hiring goals for the remainder of 2025.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with hiring managers and senior stakeholders, providing them with regular updates on recruitment progress and addressing their needs.
• Recruitment Lifecycle: Manage the recruitment process from initial screening calls, interview coordination and onboarding process for new hires.
• Recruitment Data Analysis: Track and analyse recruitment metrics to measure the effectiveness of recruitment strategies and identify areas for improvement within hiring processes.
• Employer Branding: Collaborate with the Marketing team to contribute to the development and implementation of employer branding initiatives to enhance Legal 500\'s reputation as an attractive employer via social media and recruitment events.

Skills and Experience

• We\'re ideally looking for someone with some experience in an in-house environment with an open mind on whether that experience has been from internal, RPO or embedded environments.
• Strong track record of successfully sourcing candidates from one or many of: Sales, Research/Editorial, Events, Marketing and Operations (with confident use of LinkedIn Recruiter being essential).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with candidates and stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in using applicant tracking systems (ATS) and other recruitment tools – our ATS is Screenloop – for managing candidate experience.
• Data-led, understands the impact that clean data can have in influencing direction with stakeholders.
• Curiosity and the ability to think critically, particularly when it comes to challenging hiring managers on their recruitment needs.
• Adaptability and an open mind to different situations and finding solutions to hiring-related problems.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience working in a fast-paced, international environment.
• Experience hiring into research and editorial teams.
• Available to start immediately.

Working arrangements

We operate a hybrid work policy - 3 days in office (Fleet Street, City of London) and 2 days remote (typical office days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday).

Salary

£38,000 to £43,000 per annum

Fixed term contract

Start date of 29 September 2025, end date 31 December 2025

Interview process

45 to 60 minute conversation with Nick Mortimer (Talent Lead).