Marketing/BD Executive

We are seeking an enthusiastic Marketing and BD Executive. As we embark on several key projects and ramp up our BD activities to support our ambitious growth strategy, we’re looking for someone who can bring energy and expertise to our team. If you have a minimum of two years' experience in professional services and are comfortable working across marketing and BD, we’d love to hear from you. Your focus will vary week to week and typical responsibilities will sit across marketing and BD.

Key responsibilities

Marketing communications

• Produce and maintain digital content for the website and social media platforms
• Update lawyer profiles and other marketing collateral
• Deliver monthly campaign metrics
• Assist in drafting press releases and provide PR support
• Support the Marketing Communications Manager in preparing and managing award submissions
• Assist in planning and executing webinars and seminars, managing logistics, invitations and post-event follow up, working alongside the Events Executive
• Create client mailings using the firm’s eMarketing software
• Produce and maintain content on the intranet platform, ensuring relevance and accuracy
• Support the delivery and content updates of the new website

Business development (BD)

• Prepare pitch materials and other client-facing credentials
• Compile key RFP information
• Manage the pitch Q&A database and the pitch index, ensuring it is current and reflective of pitch outcomes
• Update and maintain the master experience database
• Assist in the legal directories process and manage the testimonial database
• Support the development of a new pitching and credentials system
• Support the key autumn campaigns across content generation, targeting and follow-up
• Research and support on key client management and client listening programmes, other clients, targets, and competitors
• Maintain and improve use of the CRM system, including mailing lists, relationships and updates

• Degree-educated (non-graduates with previous marketing/BD experience will be considered).
• A minimum of two years’ previous experience in marketing/BD at either a law firm or other similar professional services is essential
• Good formatting skills
• Intermediate knowledge of the Microsoft package
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Personal attributes required:

• Proactive and positive attitude
• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables within a tight timeframe and deliver high-quality work
• Ability to prioritise own workload
• Good organisational and administrative skills
• Collaborative team player, reliable, helpful, willing to share ideas
• Able to operate across all levels of the firm
• Willing to see an urgent task through to completion, with extra hours when required

Reward and hours of work

• Competitive base salary
• Pensions Scheme (5% employer contribution)
• Private medical insurance
• Permanent health insurance
• Life assurance
• Receive either the sum of £750 per annum as a travel allowance or reimbursement of car parking expenses via a pay as you go card at a local car park (likely to be Farnham Road car park)
• Travel – option to apply for an interest free loan for a season ticket or parking permit
• Enhanced maternity/paternity pay (after sufficient service)
• Cash back scheme
• Comprehensive flexible benefits package including:
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Buy/sell holiday scheme
  • Dental insurance
  • Cycle to work schemes
  • Taste card
  • Fun pass
  • Give as you earn
  • Discounted gym memberships and shopping
  • Profit share and discretionary bonus schemes

Core hours are 09:00 – 17:30

Stevens & Bolton – making a positive difference to your career

You’ll work with people who listen, and who actively and willingly support one another within a collaborative and engaging environment.  We genuinely care about our people and strive to build and maintain a diverse, inclusive and happy workforce.

We are recognised as a top firm in The Times Best Law Firms 2024. We were highly commended for both “Regional/Offshore Firm of the Year” – Legal Business Awards 2023 and “Law Firm of the Year” – SLS Legal Awards 2023, commended for “Law Firm of the Year: The Independents” – The Lawyer Awards 2023, and were shortlisted for “ESG Initiative of the Year” – Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards 2024, “UK Law Firm of the Year - Small/Mid Sized Firm” – The British Legal Awards 2023 and “Workplace Fit-out of the Year” – Insider South East Property Awards 2023. Our refurbished office has been awarded a RICS SKA silver certificate and a 2 star Fitwel accreditation.

We’ve made excellence the hallmark of our firm: in the clear advice we give, in the enduring client relationships we build and in our proactive and highly responsive service.  We seek to recruit people who will help us maintain and build on this, and in return we offer excellent long-term career and development opportunities.

Diversity & Inclusion
We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion (D&I). This drives a strategy which focuses on constant promotion of an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to realise their full potential and be themselves at work. Previously we have been shortlisted for “Best D&I Initiative” at The HR Awards and for “Best Talent and Inclusion Initiative” at The Lawyer Awards.