Senior Marketing Assistant (12-month contract)

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 28 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world's most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world's leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to an inclusive environment, and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

Department Purpose
Our business development, marketing and communication teams contribute to the setting and achievement of the firm's business objectives, which includes supporting our partners and associates in their pursuit of becoming our clients' trusted advisers, building and maintaining long-lasting, deep institutional client relationships, winning new clients, increasing the visibility of the firm globally, and positioning the firm as the thought leader and most advanced law firm among the global elite law firms. The function works as one team across the globe with very close collaboration between the central teams and professionals supporting offices, practice groups, sectors and clients.

Role Purpose
The Senior Marketing Assistant will support the Business Development (BD) team, providing day-to-day support on a variety of marketing and business development projects: winning new business (helping to produce effective client-facing brochures), growing key client and sector relationships, and raising the profile of one of our practice groups and its partners. The successful applicant will work closely with the practice group's Business Development team and with wider business development and marketing team members from other practice groups and with other support areas such as Finance, Know-How, Document Production, Creative Services and Marketing Technology. This role will suit someone who is highly organized and efficient, who enjoys a fast-paced work environment, dealing with a variety of work.

Key relationships:

• Business Development Manager for Financial Services Regulatory
• Business Development Executive for Financial Services Regulatory
• Senior BD Assistant, Finance
• Fee earners for Financial Services Regulatory
• Legal PAs
• Core knowledge lawyers for Financial Services Regulatory
• Sector, theme and client teams (Private Capital, FIG, Insurance, ESG, Tech, Fintech)
• Global Head of Business Development
• Wider BD, Marketing and Communications teams globally, given the scope of Financial Services Regulatory across the business
• Finance teams
• Other internal teams such as Library and Research, Creative Services, Document Production, Events, Campaigns and Content, Social Media, Digital Marketing

What you will do
The role will require someone who is highly organised, efficient and enjoys getting the job done. The job will include but not be limited to:

• Helping to coordinate virtual and in-person events that the team host throughout the year. This will include: initial planning, finalising content, drafting both internal and external communications, providing support on the day of the event, and being the first point of contact for any logistical queries for clients. Will also coordinate and manage client hospitality events and conferences for fee earners.
• Supporting award submissions and directory submissions of the practice to the legal directories, including working closely with the associates on matter write ups, with the partners to approve the submissions and their referees, and then with the researchers of the directories to secure interviews and drive the best possible ranking.
• In conjunction with the Creative Services team, creating client facing materials including brochures, inserts and contact cards.
• Collating information for and helping to produce tailored CVs, credentials statements, and proposals.
• Creating and maintaining practice infrastructure to track proposals, pricing, and client feedback, and working with the BD team to ensure systems are kept up to date.
• Working closely with knowledge lawyers and internal teams to bring thought leadership to market across multiple channels, e.g., blogs, podcasts, bulletins updating the relevant sections of the website and intranet as required.
• Producing financial reports to provide background information on specific clients.
• Coordinating Vuture mailings for the group.
• Supporting content and profile-raising activities, with a particular focus on internal and external communications.
• Using internal and external data to spot trends and opportunities in the market, and as required responding to ad-hoc research requests.
• Producing financial reports to provide background information on specific clients.
• Coordinating email marketing campaigns for the group.
• Supporting on our content and profile-raising activities, with a particular focus on internal and external communications.
• Supporting the BD team with BD and marketing initiatives and other inputs as required.

Key Requirements
The role would ideally suit someone with some professional services BD experience. This is an excellent opportunity to develop marketing and BD experience within the legal environment. The ideal candidate will be ambitious and possess the following attributes and skills:

• Previous Marketing or Business Development experience, preferably in the professional services environment.
• Excellent writing skills and attention to detail.
• Strong time management skills.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and generate ideas.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• A deep knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, particular skills with Excel and PowerPoint preferred.
• Eye for design/creativity (e.g. for presentations, proposals and events)
• Ability to work well under pressure and to drive through major projects to completion.
• Ability to process and analyse business data and research.
• Good organisational and administration skills/ability to multi-task.
• Good interpersonal skills, able to confidently interact with all levels and across cultures.

Desirable
A basic understanding of the financial services sector would be an advantage.

A&O Shearman recognises the value of flexible working and embraces hybrid working, allowing our people to work from home up to 40% of their working time. We do however remain committed to working together in person for the remaining 60% of time so that we can learn, grow and succeed together.

Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.

We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.