Responsibilities

• Coordinate the development and delivery of marketing campaigns and initiatives aligned to your sector and practice group strategies, with guidance from MBD Managers and Senior MBD Managers.
• Coordinate the production of marketing collateral including brochures, capability statements, and credentials documents.
• Coordinate, plan, deliver, and host internal and external events (virtual and in-person), sponsorships, digital content, and submissions for directories, awards and / or league tables, with guidance from MBD Managers and Senior MBD Managers.
• Advise on the use of, coordinate and produce assets to be used in PR and external comms including campaigns and thought leadership.
• Coordinate internal communications through various channels.
• Support MBD Managers and Senior MBD Managers in the development and implementation of business development plans and budgets, including research and analysis to feed into these plans.
• Support client targeting initiatives.
• Prepare required materials for business development meetings with stakeholders.
• Prepare and produce innovative client materials.
• Support in responding to specific client questions and requests for information and materials.

Requirements

• Be able to coordinate marketing and business development projects, including proposals and pitches, campaigns, thought leadership, and events, ensuring alignment with firm-wide objectives and timelines, with guidance from MBD managers and senior MBD managers.
• Have a sound understanding of professional marketing approaches, new business issues, sales and pitch processes within the legal sector and particularly how these apply to sector and practice group marketing strategies.
• Have the ability to see delegated tasks through to completion at a high standard and with attention to detail, while staying calm and composed in often demanding situations.
• Be confident operating on their own initiative, including tasks to improve team processes, manage MBD systems, maintain accurate and up-to-date data on credentials, pitch activity, and client engagement.
• Be able to deal with a demanding workload and conflicting priorities, while multi-tasking and working to deadlines, being methodical and logical, and ultimately thriving in a robust and fast-paced environment.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to exercise tact and diplomacy with colleagues (both senior and junior).
• Display a consistently positive attitude and adopt a 'can do' approach as well as being able to work well as part of a wider team.
• Demonstrate a professional approach in terms of commitment and internal client care, as well as being able to provide a high quality service and excellent stakeholder management whilst operating remotely from the end user.
• Demonstrate subject matter comprehension in their aligned sector and practice group, seeking to learn more about the sub-sectors, markets and key clients in the sector(s) aligned to own role.
• Demonstrate ability to understand and identify with the firm and its objectives and values.

Nice to have

• Be IT literate in Microsoft Office. Familiarity with the firm’s client intelligence (InterAction, PowerBI), AI (Copilot), and pitch tools (Experience Hub / InTapp, and Qorus) is desirable. Candidates should be able to quickly onboard new firm tools that have been developed and/or will be rolled out for use by MBD.
• Hold a Degree/CIM Professional Certificate in Marketing (desirable).
• Have previous experience in marketing and business development, ideally within a law firm or professional services environment (desirable).