Business Development and Marketing Assistant
Dubai
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 Business Development and Marketing Assistant to support delivery of strategy, business development initiatives, marketing campaigns, and client relationship programmes.
As a key member of the Middle East BD and Marketing Team you will report to the Business Development Manager and collaborate across sectors, offices, and central teams to enhance the firm’s brand, win new work, and deepen client engagement.
This role will be based out of our Dubai Office, and our standard working hours are 9.00am-6.00pm working four days a week in the office and one from home.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
- Previous experience in a Marketing or Business Development role – ideally within a legal or professional services environment.
- Must be fluent in both spoken and written English.
- Able to evidence CRM System experience or relevant Marketing & BD Administrative support skills.
- Extensive experience in customer facing roles, with the ability to build internal and external relationships to enhance the firms’ reputation.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, to be able to deal with stakeholders at multiple levels and across various teams.
- Great organisational skills, with experience creating highly accurate and detailed work.
- Evidence of being proactive in your work and taking the initiative for your own workload.
- Able to adapt to a fast-changing environment, showing resilience and bouncing back if setbacks occur.
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Talent Acquisition 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 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.
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Skills Required
- Previous experience in a marketing or business development role, ideally within a legal or professional services environment
- Fluency in spoken and written English
- CRM system experience or relevant marketing and business development administrative support skills
- Extensive experience in customer-facing roles and ability to build internal and external relationships
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills and experience producing highly accurate, detailed work
- Proactive approach and ability to take initiative
- Adaptability and resilience in a fast-changing environment
What We Do
Pinsent Masons is a multinational law firm with a reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in its deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our expertise is recognised globally. In recent years we have achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, and been counted among the most innovative law firms in Europe and Asia Pacific by the Financial Times. With over 1,500 lawyers operating from 27 locations throughout Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. The firm has significant international credentials in the global energy, infrastructure, financial services, real estate and technology, science and industry sectors. Pinsent Masons looks at your business needs differently. This means we don't just apply lawyers to solve clients' problems; we deploy a wider range of professional disciplines, enabled by people, process and technology, to deliver a global professional service with law at its core.






