Senior Research Analyst

Freshfields • Raleigh, NC

3d

About The Position

The Market Intelligence team sits within MBD with a mission to help the firm’s lawyers understand our market, our client’s markets, and the macro-driven environment. The team provides evidence-based intelligence to support firm strategy, business development pipelines and in-depth client understanding. In the light of AI advancements and growing demands on the Market Intelligence team to deliver high-value, relationship-driven, strategic input to our partners and their clients, we are in a position where senior analytical experience is vital to ensuring we maintain quality levels across a broader waterfront through individual specialisms.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• 2-5 years’ experience of successfully providing BD driven commercial research and analysis in a legal, professional services or in-house strategic environment.
• Advanced-level research and analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills, comfortable dealing with senior stakeholders.
• Experience of working in teams and on self-guided research projects with a consultative approach.
• Ability to work on multiple initiatives, under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• AI experience and awareness.
• Proficient across the applications of the MS Office suite.
• Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to listen, clarify and share information easily to a non-analytical audience.
• Creative problem solving and critical thinking.
• A commitment to the highest levels of attention to detail.
• A commitment to continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Law-firm specific experience, along with familiarity of US courts and litigation terminology.
• Postgraduate qualification.
• Knowledge of using LSEG Workspace, S&P Capital IQ, Pitchbook, AlphaSense, Fitch, Preqin, or Pirical.
• Advanced AI research skills and agentic/playbook experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and co-ordinate BD driven business research for the US practice, through industry analysis, client deep dives and competitor intelligence.
• Utilize and synthesize research platform content to provide succinct and actionable outputs to attorneys and business services staff.
• Leverage agentic AI to produce high quality, targeted and actionable research workstreams for attorneys and business services staff to drive business development.
• Develop strong relationships with key MBD and lawyer stakeholders to understand strategic business development priorities and identify areas for research input.
• Keep abreast of market, economic and political developments likely to impact client priorities, including regulatory and legislative changes, market/sector inquiries, position papers, industry news, competitor intelligence, and market monitoring.
• Work with sector / practice teams and MBD colleagues to drive client targeting projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree