Manager, Market and Insights

Our Practice Solutions team leads the Firm’s innovation initiatives, supporting our lawyers in client delivery excellence. The team has deep expertise in working with established and emerging technologies, data analytics and data science, knowledge solutions and process re-engineering. The Practice Solutions team works with our lawyers to identify innovative solutions to support our clients. Through fostering a Firmwide culture of innovation, we encourage our lawyers to think creatively about how to deliver the best value to our clients and we ensure that White & Case remains at the forefront of advancements in the legal industry.

We are seeking an experienced, analytical and commercially minded Market & Competititve Insights Manager to join our global Research & Market Intelligence team.

This is an opportunity to lead high-impact market and competitive intelligence work that informs the Firm’s client strategy, business planning and growth priorities. You will provide clear, actionable, data-driven advice to senior stakeholders while delivering the intelligence that supports everyday client development, pitches and relationship-building activity.

Working closely with the Firm’s leadership, Executive Committee, Office of the Firm’s Chair, Marketing & Business Development and Strategy teams, you will help build and embed market intelligence capabilities across our global network. Your work will influence strategic decisions and enable colleagues across the Firm to act with confidence.

• Research, analyse, and present high-impact client, sector, market and competitive intelligence via briefings, strategic reports, and presentations to identify new business opportunities and drive the Firm's growth.

• Liaise with the Firm's leadership and Executive Committee to provide research and analysis to support strategic decision-making, including the production and presentation of timely and concise summary reports with clear insights and recommendations.

• Provide proactive market and competitor intelligence to the wider partnership and other parts of the Firm, and monitor the Firm's key clients and industry sectors and related news sources to identify and communicate information about potential opportunities to relevant stakeholders.

• Design and execute quantitative and qualitative analysis on broad market and competitive themes down to single-name analysis, across different industries and markets.

• Monitor and analyse risks, opportunities and developments in the legal competitive market, providing actionable insights.

• Work with sector and practice group leadership to support client-targeting and growth strategies through competitive intelligence, deal analytics and market insights.

• Help partners and business services leaders across the Firm build their practice and relationships with clients, guiding them through market opportunities in advance of client presentations as well as contributing to business plans, pitch preparation, competitive analysis, and client profiles.

• Deliver strategic intelligence to support lateral hiring decisions, including competitor benchmarking, practice-area mapping, and candidate-market analysis.

• Stay at the forefront of developments in business and competitive intelligence methodologies, including the application of AI, data analytics, and automation, to drive innovation and efficiency across the function.

• Recommend and promote market, client and competitive intelligence tools to ensure access to the most relevant and up-to-date resources amongst team members and across the wider Firm.

• Work closely with the global Business Intelligence team to help develop digital research products combining external and internal data sources as well as AI.

• Present findings, market perspectives and recommendations to partners, senior management and other key internal stakeholders.

• Build the profile and credibility of the Research & Market Intelligence function by bringing informed commercial perspectives to strategic discussions and growth planning.

• Act as a subject matter expert on priority industries, commercial themes and competitor activity.

• Deliver training, best-practice guidance and self-service resources for lawyers, Marketing & Business Development colleagues and other teams using market intelligence.

• Build strong relationships across Business…