Marketing & BD Executive

We are an exciting early-stage business, and we want you to bring your experience and your personality; we have big ambitions and need your help to bring them to life! This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a high-growth business unit within DLA Piper. You can help shape the future of DLA Piper Business Advisory and challenge the traditional way of doing things.

The role of the MBD Executive in the Business Advisory team is wide-ranging. You will need to be comfortable jumping in and getting involved in many different areas of growing the business across a range of marketing and business development channels – brand, comms, digital, events, and marketing operations. While this is predominantly a support role, the opportunity for managing your own initiatives is significant and is fully backed by mentoring and training. The role significantly supports the Senior MBD Manager and the other members of the MBD team where possible.

In the early stages of the role, you will focus mainly on supporting the MBD team to build profile in DLA Piper and the external market for our Business Advisory team. As the role develops, you will need a strong understanding of the consultative selling sales cycle.

This is a great opportunity to hone your existing skills and develop new capabilities. All while being supported and encouraged by a caring leadership team, wonderful teammates and the commitment of a world class law firm.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Work with advisory teams and sales leaders to support client development, with the principal objective of growing relationships and revenue with strategically important clients.
• Co-create and execute targeted marketing campaigns to raise our team's profile and win new business.
• Develop and implement enablement tools to provide client development teams with useful supporting data, including through the credentials database.
• Work with sales leaders to ensure all leads generated by MBD activities, such as campaigns and events, are moved methodically through the sales pipeline.
• Support Business Advisory's participation in DLA Piper client events, including roundtables, webinars and larger in-person events.
• Arrange insightful market research on companies, industry sectors and countries.
• Manage the production of marketing and business development content from concept through to distribution.
• Co-develop standardised pitch materials for access by the firm's pitch team and Business Advisory solution teams.
• Identify, and coordinate Business Advisory involvement in, relevant sector, client, practice group and interest group forums.
• Devise and implement digital marketing initiatives through the DLA Piper website and social media channels, with occasional email use.
• Contribution to, and execution of, the regional MBD plan and communications plan.
• Develop compelling narrative on our value proposition and communicate this effectively to stakeholders and in client-facing materials.
• Elevate the quality of our visual identity within DLA Piper's brand guidelines.
• Report ROI on all MBD activities to better inform future efforts.
• Manage marketing software, systems and support services.

About you

• First-class written, communication and project management skills.
• Knowledge of professional services MBD, with a sound understanding of new business processes, digital marketing, CRM and tools that will help us win engagements.
• Positive and proactive attitude, and able to operate both as an individual and collaboratively as part of a wider team
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, stakeholder management and client care expertise.
• Understands the importance of a consultative sales process.
• Comfortable with ambiguity as we grow and develop.
• An appreciation of the nature of professional services firms.

DLA Piper Business Advisory

DLA Piper Business Advisory provides solutions to clients' complex challenges through integrated teams of highly experienced consultants and lawyers. Our legal adjacent commercial solutions centre around DLA Piper’s core legal strengths and target specific client challenges. ​ Our international management consulting team has developed our services drawing from decades of experience in strategy, financial advisory, transformation, risk management and organisational change to support the firm’s areas of global focus. We offer clients a range of services in three key areas - Integrated M&A, Sustainability & ESG and Strategic Change.

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully

• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships

• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions

• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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