Owen Reed is looking to recruit a driven Business Development & Marketing Team Assistant to join top law firm in London.

As a Team Assistant in the Business Development and Marketing department, your role is to provide day-to-day support across the team which encompasses BD teams supporting the firm’s departments, and the Marketing team dealing with firm wide external and internal campaigns and communications. It involves a broad range of tasks across the department so you will be involved in many areas of the work we do. We are a firm that is growing rapidly and improving and updating many of our processes and systems so there is the opportunity to get involved in various change projects that will support the department’s strategic ambitions and growth.

Role/Responsibilities include:

• Taking ownership of the Marketing Inbox
• Managing photography sessions for new joiners
• Assistance with InterAction admin
• Helping distribute and chase marketing invoices
• Track firmwide memberships, renewals, how often they are used
• Update Directory Tracker with quotes and rankings
• Create, collate and stay on top of a restaurant/venue ‘catcher’, useful when looking for spaces for events
• Purchase gifts for speakers following events;
• Assisting with diaries for team wide meetings
• Assisting with formatting and branding department materials and event invites
• Uploading articles, posts and deal releases to the webpage/LinkedIn
• Creating graphics for posts, deal releases, internal comms
• Help with event preparation and admin including being the go-to for RSVPs and dietary requirements, liaising with venues, seating plans, research on attendees
• Sourcing branded imagery for pitches and other materials.
• Assist in reviewing and updating key BD collateral including expertise documents

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Our ideal candidate will possess most of the following attributes:
• Excellent communication and writing skills. Attention to detail a must.
• Professional, personable and mature attitude, with the ability to work appropriately with people at all levels of an organisation.
• Effective relationship builder – is able to interact with individuals at all levels across the business
• Shows initiative
• Able to deal calmly with multiple priorities and urgent situations as they arise
• Ability to work autonomously and to a deadline
• Comfortable with technology
• Commercially aware, sensitive to the concerns and needs of internal and external clients