Senior Specialist: Business Development and Marketing; Energy

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Commercial department in our Houston office, as a Senior Specialist:
Business Development and Marketing.

The Senior Specialist:
Business Development and Marketing will play a central role in shaping and executing business development initiatives across one of the key industry and accelerated growth groups - Energy. This position will partner directly with lawyers and firm leadership to drive client growth, deepen market positioning, and bring strategic plans to life on a global stage.

The Senior Specialist will own key initiatives, collaborate with a talented and collegial Global Business Development and Marketing team, and contribute meaningfully to the firm's strategic priorities across its Product, Industry, and Client Teams. This position will also have the opportunity to support broader business development efforts, providing visibility across practices and geographies.

This role is built for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating environment and is looking for the kind of challenge and exposure that accelerates a career. This is an opportunity to step into a high‑impact role at the heart of Mayer Brown's strategic growth engine.

Essential Functions:

Business Plans & Infrastructure

• Assist and support business development team members and lawyers in executing on business plans and client strategies, and with tracking implementation and progress against the plans
• Communicate successes of assigned groups internally, as well as best practices and group activities to ensure that best practices are leveraged and that support initiatives are coordinated across Business Development and Marketing Department groups and offices

Business Development & Profile Raising Initiatives

• Support thought leadership publications and offerings including project management and mining of data for business-development opportunities; ensure robust distribution internally across the Firm’s offices, practices and client teams and other platforms and promotion outside the Firm on Linked In and elsewhere
• Support direct marketing and business development programs including planning and executing podcast and video recordings, seminars, sponsor ships, and other events pursued by the firm including serve as central resource for logistics (e.g., meeting rooms, telephone and video conferencing needs, event set-up, delivering materials etc.); manage communications including invitations and RSVPs, meeting invites, internal socializing and external communications; leveraging appropriate teams within the Firm to support various tasks including RSVPs, CLE credit, catering, etc.;
  
  and attending meetings and events to provide support on‑site
• Support initiatives related to research, data collection and analysis, directory submissions (i.e., Chambers), matter coding, economic reporting, intranet site development and maintenance and internal meeting support.
• Collect matter data for energy globally and manage matter database to ensure data quality and the availability of matter data firm‑wide.
• Develop and maintain industry survey and directory ranking content and results for assigned…