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Job Title
Marketing and Business Development Placement Year
Department
Role
Job Location
Bristol
Description
Job title: Marketing
& Business Development (M&BD) Intern
Department: Marketing
& Business Development
Location: Bristol or London
Main purpose of the role:
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual
with an interest in pursuing a career in professional services
M&BD to gain on the job experience across all aspects of a
fast-paced M&BD function within an international law firm.
Reports to: Senior
M&BD Operations Manager
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Pitching - producing first drafts of
client-facing pitch documents and supporting the maintenance of the
firm's pitch infrastructure and credentials database.
Client management - producing first drafts of
regular internal and client facing reports, updating relationship
maps and updating content on client portals.
Research and reporting - gathering data and
compiling internal and client facing reports.
Directory submissions - assisting with directory
submissions, including chasing for content and ensuring documents
are completed and submitted on time.
Events - assisting with all aspects of event
planning and management for both in-person events and webinars,
including managing marketing lists, producing event invitations and
internal communication, diary co-ordination, organising event
logistics and attending events on the day.
CRM - assisting with the maintenance and
administration of the firm's client database (InterAction) and our
relationship intelligence tool (Introhive).
Other activity- as required.
You will be required to:
Work as a team - working with the team to reach
milestones and achieve objectives both in terms of significant
projects and day to day tasks.
Achieve deadlines - being proactive in picking up
tasks and completing them in accordance with deadlines.
Familiarise yourself with M&BD processes -
continuously developing and evolving knowledge of relevant M&BD
processes to provide efficient and high-quality support to the wider
M&BD team and the firm.
Undertake training and development - attending
regular training and development and learning and implementing best
practice and ensuring high quality levels. Gaining an understanding
of the business through daily tasks and projects.
Report - frequent reporting of service delivery
and progress regarding projects.
Person specification:
Strong Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills
Excellent communication skills
Able to work effectively as part of a diverse and inclusive team
Well organised with good attention to detail
Excellent project management skills
Ability to learn quickly and follow processes
Well-developed understanding of the tasks that fit under the
M&BD department
Able to build effective and collaborative relationships and
networks across the firm
Solution oriented
Commercially driven
Familiarity with M&BD technology would be advantageous
Flexibility and a willingness to work additional hours on occasion
as required.
Firm introduction:
Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm, providing
clients with commercially aware legal advice, whenever and wherever
they need it. We have over 1,600 people situated in key business and
financial centres across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
We understand that our firm is equal only to the strengths of our
people and place great emphasis on recruiting and retaining staff who
meet our high standards. Our philosophy for international growth has
been to build practices around local teams who understand the culture,
business and languages of the countries and regions in which we
operate. In doing so, we believe that we have succeeded in developing
a closely knit and cohesive network that meets local business needs as
part of a global service.
Our business services groups provide integrated support for our
global operations. The firm is organised in line with our clients'
requirements into key practice areas and sector groups. Our sector
focus allows us to better appreciate the environment in which our
clients operate and to work with them to achieve their objectives.
Our client base includes leading financial institutions and a
significant number of the current FTSE 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies.
Our focus on a small number of sectors means we are able to
understand and respond to our clients' needs. Our industry sectors
are: Asset Management & Investment Funds, Financial Institutions,
Healthcare & Life Sciences and Telecoms, Media & Technology
(TMT). We also focus on the E&I market, in particular through our
international projects and construction teams. We have a track record
for innovation and delivering value to clients through new ways of
working. The core practice areas, from which we draw our sector teams,
are: corporate, dispute resolution, employment, pensions &
employee benefits, EU, competition & regulatory, financial
markets, information, communications & technology, intellectual
property, projects, real estate and tax.
For additional information on the firm, please visit our website at
www.simmons-simmons.com.
Equal opportunities:
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity in the firm
and to equal opportunities in employment.
We believe in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial
group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins),
religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender
re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership,
and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any
incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and
harassment. We ensure that those who serve or who have served in the
armed forces, and their families, are treated fairly during the
recruitment and selection processes.
At Simmons & Simmons we seek to attract and retain talented
people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create
an exciting and rewarding place to work. We are supportive of
flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would
encourage you to discuss this with us, should this be something you
are interested in.
Background screening:
All recruits of Simmons & Simmons will be required to go through
our background screening process. Depending on the position you apply
for this may include a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)
certificate. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any
subject of a DBS certificate on the basis of a conviction or other
information revealed. The firm's policy on the recruitment of
ex-offenders is available on request.