Marketing & Business Development Executive – FI

The role:

We are looking for a Marketing & Business Development Executive to join our M&BD department in London.

The Business Development Executive will provide support on day-to-day and strategic marketing and business development activity for the global FI sector such as business planning and tracking budgeting pitches client targeting digital marketing and events.

This will involve gaining an understanding of the sector to assist with the achievement of the teams business plans and to support various firm-wide initiatives.

We aim to provide you with opportunities to develop your career across the business development function encouraging close co-operation and team-working alongside other central Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) functions such as the key client programme team and the M&BD Hub both in London and internationally.

The M&BD team:

Uniting the firms expertise to meet clients global needs

The Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) team at Simmons & Simmons is a dynamic group of value creators digital innovators and relationship builders. Were seeking talented individuals with ambition and passion to join our high-performing team known for its commitment to learning growth and excellence.

The team benefits from the expertise of seasoned professionals from leading firms and industries. We invest in our talent at all levels offering extensive training like the Future Leaders programme to nurture the next generation of leaders.

Our innovative efforts including the award-winning supercharge client program sector-focused campaigns and cross-border group teams have significantly contributed to the firms global reputation and success in attracting top-tier clients.

We prioritise continuous improvement and operational excellence adopting best practices to maintain our competitive edge and align with our purpose of becoming a next generation law firm.

Our global M&BD team operates as One Team valuing contributions from members worldwide and fostering a culture of connection and fun. Joining us means making a definitive impact in a role that values and leverages your contributions.

What will you do:

• Develop sector industry expertise and share knowledge within the M&BD team about the work of the FI sector: the individual in this role must develop a high level of knowledge about the products and services offered by our FI sector and demonstrate an avid interest in developing sector industry knowledge. There is a requirement to spend a significant amount of time reading sector specific industry news learning about our capabilities and obtaining an overview of the legal and regulatory developments in the FI sector with a view to understanding the issues impacting clients in the sector.

• Reporting: Preparing regular sector management reports. Assisting the FI Sector Lead and Manager in preparing updates for various senior stakeholders and others in the business on key trends and opportunities contributing to brainstorming discussions on how we can develop the opportunities highlighted.

• Business planning and budget management: Working with the FI sector lead and manager to report monthly on the marketing spend against budget analysing investment against return. Ensuring correct budget sign-off procedures are followed for unplanned activities.

• Website and intranet updates: Ensuring all website and intranet content for the FI sector and team updates are kept up-to-date including adding FI events to the firmwide events intranet page and establishes a process whereby this happens.

• Clients: Developing a broad understanding of the sectors client base and their role in the key client programme. Assist the FI sector lead and manager to manage and develop any clients they are responsible for.

• Engagement with the M&BD hub team: primary responsibility for briefing the M&BD hub on commoditised repeatable M&BD tasks. Acts as the conduit between the fee earners and the M&BD hub. Performs a quality assurance role for products developed by the M&BD hub and provides regular feedback to improve hub processes.

• Supporting on internal projects to improve efficiency and impact of the sector team
  . For example tracking FI panel clients pitches led by the FI sector and reclassifications in and out of the FI sector.

• Events: supporting the execution of key sector events from planning to execution and follow up. Attending and engaging with clients at events such as seminars workshops and training where appropriate.

• CRM: Liaising with fee earners PAs and The Inter Action Helpdesk team to ensure all key client contact information is stored categorised and maintained on Inter Action.

• Coordination of FI Sector calls and client teams calls
  : taking notes and actions from calls and circulating to the relevant teams for digestion/ action.

• Pitches: Assisting sector fee earners with sector specific tenders including conducting a bid / no bid process managing the logistics of the pitch process for any assigned pitches gathering of relevant material and…