Responsibilities

• Help drive and support business development and profile raising activities across the firm, working closely with partners, attorneys and the wider Marketing & Business Development team.
• Support assigned business development sector groups, including attending meetings, contributing ideas, maintaining action plans, support pitches and client presentations, and helping to progress agreed initiatives
• Support fee earners attending international conferences and trips, including pre-conference research, targeting and business development planning, and coordinate follow-up activity where appropriate.
• Provide support to the UK referrers programme as required.
• Assist with the generation of reports to support business development meetings, practice group meetings and Executive Committee meetings as required, ensuring that appropriate and accurate data is included from Inprotech and other relevant sources.
• Develop and maintain useful materials such as general collateral, testimonials, case studies, directory materials etc.
• Write submissions to the major legal directories, liaising with partners and attorneys ensuring deadlines are met.
• Liaise with the firms PR advisers and assist where necessary with the placing of articles and with providing press comment from attorneys.
• Planning and delivery of events.
• Manage day-to-day website content, working with the Marketing & Business Development Administrator on content uploads and with the firm's website developers where required.

Requirements

• Educated to A level (or equivalent) or above
• Ideally educated to degree level, though not essential
• High standard of written literacy, numeracy and analytical skills
• Experience in a professional services environment
• High degree of IT literacy both desktop & online
• Excellent research skills and experience of attending meetings and taking minutes
• Proficient in using Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience of working with databases or other structured or manual information systems
• Confident in engaging with people at all levels
• Proficient in using social media platforms

Preferred

• Ideally educated to degree level, though not essential
• Knowledge of Introhive or other CRM system. Knowledge of Canva
• Proficient in using social media platforms
• Experience of delivering high-quality client-facing materials
• Knowledge of Introhive or other CRM system. Knowledge of Canva

Benefits

• 27 days annual leave plus all bank and public holidays
• Remote home working (40% office / 60% working from home)
• Discretionary Christmas bonus
• Family Friendly Policies
• Private Pension Scheme (with optional salary sacrifice)
• Semi-annual meetings with a Pensions Advisor
• Group Life Assurance (3 x salary)
• Cycle to work scheme (salary sacrifice scheme)
• Eye care vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme