Are you looking to develop your business development
experience in a fast-moving global business? Used to providing
on-going business development support? We're looking for a Business
Development Assistant to join our global Business Development &
Marketing team, to be based in our London office.
You'll need to be self-motivated with excellent
communication skills and a demonstrable understanding of marketing,
business and client development practices. Experience in a similar
role is desirable and an understanding of the legal environment
would be beneficial to the role.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest
integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point
where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially
focused business solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from
long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses,
start-up visionaries and sovereign nations. With over 1,500 lawyers
spanning more than 40 offices across four continents, the firm is
renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering
comprehensive legal services across North America, Europe, the
Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In the UK, we have
offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.
The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and
supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each
of our UK offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and
DEI programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to
support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their
personal and professional goals.
Our Team
Our global Business Development & Marketing team
work together to provide frontline business development support and
advice at a practice, industry and office level - much of the work
being collaborative and international in nature.
You'll be reporting into the Business Development
Director and will work closely with the wider UK-based Business
Development & Marketing team. You will provide a full range of
on-going administrative activities for the London office, as well as
supporting other strategic growth practices or BD-related projects
in the UK.
Our Opportunity
In this dynamic and busy role, no two days will be the
same. This role would be ideal for someone who is looking to develop
their administrative and marketing skills within a legal office environment.
You will help to coordinate and collaborate London
office initiatives with wider UK offices, practices and sectors.
This will involve working with the London Office Manager Partner and
coordinating with the Business Development Director to define and
execute business growth objectives, identify target opportunities,
develop and coordinate business development plans, and work with
related teams to grow the firm's business base.
You will provide support in preparing responses to
domestic and cross-border requests for information, requests for
proposals, and other pitches, proposals, capability statements and
client-facing materials for new or expanded business.
You will also be responsible for updating and
maintaining the team's databases, as well as supporting the BD
Managers on their day-to-day BD and marketing support needs
(updating materials, pitch support, mailing lists etc). You will
monitor office BD budgets, generate BD budget codes, and monitor spend.
You
As this is a varied role, you'll need to be a creative,
dynamic and determined individual with critical attention to detail
and excellent communication skills (verbal and written). You'll be a
team player, with a professional attitude, and have the drive and
ability to focus on a number of different projects to ensure that
all deadlines are met. This is a busy role so the ability to work
under pressure is important.
You will have 1-2 years' experience in a similar role,
ideally within a professional services organisation. You will have
strong MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and social media
channel skills. An understanding of marketing, business and client
development principles, activities and tools would be beneficial.
Flexibility regarding hours and travelling to other UK
offices is required.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this
role, please visit our Careers website at
www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first instance. We will
be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, please complete an
online application.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our
workforce is representative of our diverse society. We welcome
applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and
expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or
parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make
reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to
ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may
collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate
registration process.
