Job Title: Marketing & Business Development Executive Department: Marketing & Business Development Reporting to: Marketing & Business Development Manager
Job Location: London / hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
We are recruiting on behalf of our client, a leading international law firm, with over 600 lawyers working globally, who are looking for a Marketing and Business Development Executive to provide support to the Commodities industry group on a range of marketing and business development activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting with the preparation, co-ordination and delivery of pitches, panels and capability statements to tight deadlines;
- Assisting in the follow-up of BD and marketing opportunities and updating pipeline/reporting accordingly;
- Fielding requests for sources of information to support pitches across the business;
- Proactively identifying and monitoring the progress of potential matters and credentials for internal or external promotion in order to regularly feed into directories, website, internal newsletter;
- Supporting the Marketing & Business Development Manager with various account management tasks;
- Co-ordinating and working alongside fee earners and personal assistants to draft initial legal directory and awards submissions;
- Supporting the delivery and promotion of webinars and face-to-face events (which may include working outside of normal working hours);
- Maintaining stocks of marketing collateral, organising for reprints and making minor updates where required, as well as ensuring updated documents (including CVs) are uploaded to the web;
- Any other ad hoc duties as may be required.
Experience Required
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in Marketing;
- Ideally, a minimum of one year's relevant experience gained within a professional services organisation, preferably legal;
- Excellent written skills with good attention to detail;
- Team player and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation;
- Strong IT skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Knowledge of content management and CRM (InterAction) systems advantageous;
- Good organisational skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks to deadline;
- Resourceful, able to use own initiative to find answers to queries.