Business Development and Marketing Manager

Business Development & Marketing Manager

London or 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 Business Development & Marketing Manager to support the Head of Business Development for Financial Services in the design, delivery and execution of marketing and business development plans that help win profitable work, deepen client relationships, and strengthen the firm’s brand, profile and reputation in priority markets. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to play a key role in driving growth across the Financial Services sector, leading specific sub-sector activity and working closely with partners, senior stakeholders and the wider Business Development & Marketing team.

In this role, you will work with sector leadership and key stakeholders to create and implement business development initiatives that strengthen client relationships, generate new opportunities and support revenue growth. You will lead on pitches, proposals, credentials and client-facing materials, while using client and market insight to support a connected, one-firm approach to business development activity.  

You will also help deliver marketing campaigns, thought leadership, events, sponsorships and networking initiatives that raise the firm’s profile and create measurable commercial outcomes. Alongside this, you will support the development of junior team members, helping to build commercial acumen, confidence and a collaborative team culture.  

This role can be based out of eitherLondon or Edinburgh, our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, and we operate a 3 days in the office, 2 days from home working model, 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:  

• Extensive experience in a Business Development role within a professional services environment, preferably within a law firm.  
• Experience operating at least at Senior Executive level, with a track record of supporting senior stakeholders to win profitable work, deepen relationships and build brand and reputation.  
• Strong commercial awareness, with experience growing existing and new business.  
• Experience managing, mentoring and motivating team members.  
• Experience leading or supporting pitches, proposals, credentials and client-facing materials.  
• Excellent work management skills, with the ability to manage a broad and fast-paced workload in an organised and efficient manner. 

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 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.  

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