Marketing & Business Development Assistant

Marketing & Business Development Assistant  

Edinburgh or London  

Role Overview  

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.   

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.   

We are recruiting a Marketing & Business Development Assistant to provide support in the execution of the marketing and business development plans which will help the Construction Advisory & Disputes (CAD) team’s ambition to build our reputation and grow revenue in a high priority market.  

This role involves supporting the creation and market introduction of CAD propositions, collaborating with various teams, and contributing to sector activities. As a representative of the Business Development and Marketing team, you will work with team members to deliver a variety of initiatives, including events, collateral updates, internal and external communications, and profile-raising campaigns. Additionally, you will gather and share market information to enhance engagement across these initiatives.  

This role will be based out of either our Edinburgh or London office, and we operate 3 days in the office, 2 days from home working model, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests. 

Candidate Overview  

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:   

• Previous experience in Marketing, Events or Business Development, preferably within a legal or professional services setting, or a recent graduate with a Business or Marketing degree. 

• Experienced in events – including in-person and online from planning logistics, managing invitations, stakeholder communication, and post event analysis and outreach. 

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, to be able to deal with stakeholders at multiple levels and across various teams.  

• Great organisational skills, with experience creating highly accurate and detailed work.  

• Comfortable using various computer systems including Office365 and CRM systems. 

• Evidence of being proactive in your work and taking the initiative for your own workload.  

• Able to adapt to a fast-changing environment, showing resilience and bouncing back if setbacks occur.  

What happens next?   

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.   

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.   

Our strength lies in our differences.  

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.   

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