Senior Marketing and Business Development Executive - #1775220

Job Description

Senior Marketing and Business Development Executive

Edinburgh

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons, we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Senior Marketing and Business Development Executive to join our Financial Services team. This role will support the Head of BD to develop and deliver the business development plans for Financial services and related sub-sectors across all UK and International offices, to drive increased sales of profitable, strategically aligned work into the firm.

As part of a highly engaged and top performing team, this opportunity will focus on one of the Firms key business areas, and work with clients that form the cornerstone of our organisation's success.

This role will be based out of our Edinburgh office and our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience at a Senior Marketing and BD level, or exceptional quality at an exec level, ideally within the legal industry or similar partnership environments.
• Able to lead on content creation for several outputs, including capability documents, client brochures, pitches and various social media channels.
• Experienced in managing an established programme of client facing events, as well as taking the lead on establishing new events in the schedule, based on trends or hot topics.
• Evidence of working as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders such as Partners – giving advice and guidance and being able to challenge where necessary.
• Experience of leading on a number of focus groups within the sector, working directly with partners on progressing focus group BD and client plans.
• Able to take genuine ownership of this role with minimal supervision – managing a complex and varied workload, keeping up to date with news and trends, and being an early adopter of new ways of working (tech, AI etc).
  
  
  

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.