Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership
• Set the overarching UK Marketing & Business Development (M&BD) strategy, fully aligned and structured to deliver the firm's business objectives, sector and practice priorities.
• Build, inspire, and develop the senior M&BD leadership team - creating clarity on strategic direction, expectations, and frameworks that enable the function to have genuine commercial impact and client leadership skills at every level.
• Take overall responsibility for enhancing M&BD proficiency and optimisation across the UK partnership and teams.
• Lead significant change initiatives - including brand refresh, CRM and automation transformation, and operating model design - with strong adoption and measurable benefits realisation.
• Work collaboratively and constructively with the International Head of Markets and M&BD leaders in other jurisdictions, influencing through expertise and partnership rather than authority; sharing intelligence, aligning on cross-border initiatives, and ensuring the UK plays a leading and constructive role within the international network.
• Use market, client, and competitive intelligence to inform strategic decisions, positioning, and investment priorities.
• Brand Vision and Oversight
• Champion the UK brand vision, positioning, and strategic narrative - working in close partnership with the Director of Communications, Marketing and Brand to shape and refine the brand and communications strategy, and ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across all channels and audiences.
• Play a leading role in sharpening the firm's UK brand - working with the Director to ensure OC is seen as focused, distinct, and differentiated in the market, with a clear and compelling identity that clients and talent recognise and value.

Requirements

• Proven track record as a CMO or senior marketing, business development or communications leader within professional services, ideally a law firm or other complex partnership.
• Demonstrable success in delivering strategic impact and transformation through generation of innovative and clearly structured BD&M initiatives.
• Broad expertise across strategic marketing, brand management, digital and demand generation, content, pursuits and key account management.
• Strong commercial acumen - including pipeline management, pricing awareness and profitability levers - underpinned by a data driven approach to decision making.
• Exceptional communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the gravitas to partner with senior lawyers and the credibility to influence international counterparts without formal authority.
• Qualification in Marketing, Business, Communications or a related field; an advanced degree or professional certification (e.g. CIM/AMA) preferred.
• Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen and execution discipline; commercially astute, creative and data driven, with a strong understanding of modern digital and AI enabled marketing.
• An inclusive, collaborative leader who builds high performing, engaged teams and creates followership across an international network through inspiring colleagues and external stakeholders around a shared, ambitious vision.
• High integrity, sound judgement and strong situational awareness, particularly around reputational risk and sensitive issues.
• Deeply client centric, with a commitment to service excellence and a clear instinct for what matters to sophisticated buyers of legal and other professional services.

Benefits

• We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.