Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Data Assistant - 6 month FTC

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Job Title

Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Data Assistant - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Department

Marketing and Business Development (M&BD)

Office Location

Birmingham

Reports To

Global Head of M&BD Operations and Systems

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms.  Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach.  Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. 

With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally.  Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London.  The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate/Commercial, Disputes, Finance and Real Estate, as well as our Legal Delivery Centre and business services departments.  The office has trebled in size and moved into a new fitted out space in the Colmore Building.

Department Description

We have a well-established global M&BD team, which supports the firm on a wide range of business development, client relationship management and reputational activities.  The team is divided into several key areas including Practice M&BD, Client Development and Industry M&BD, Corporate Communications, which comprises Public Relations, Brand, Design, Events, and on-line; Pitches and Pursuits, which manage strategic global pitches; and Campaigns and Projects, a team dedicated to managing and driving forward firm-wide profile building initiatives.

Role Overview

We need a capable and enthusiastic data assistant to support the M&BD team in BD and marketing activities. In particular this role will focus on preparation for the launch of the firm’s global Experience Management system - Foundation. This crucial project will require compilation, review and cleansing of experience records across global practice areas to ensure a thorough and consistent dataset is available for the launch of Foundation.

This data will be essential to the M&BD function’s ability to respond to pitches, prepare credentials lists, secure PR opportunities and improve market profile through submissions to legal directories and league tables.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Degree level education or equivalent.

• Proficient across MS Office including PowerPoint.

The Candidate

• Understanding of the legal market (in terms of key players, and Corporate & Finance product areas/work types) to aid familiarity with terminology.

• A general understanding of the commercial world and its drivers.

• Good written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail and data management skills.

• Effective project management skills including the ability to plan ahead and prioritise conflicting demands to meet deadlines for the team.

• Demonstrates a keen interest in self-development and shows initiative.

• Team player who is proactive with a 'can do attitude'.

• Demonstrates consistent excellent service delivery to internal clients.

• Demonstrates an understanding of the firm's business and marketplace.

• Experience in, and comfortable with, working in a partnership or equivalent professional services environment.

• Proficient in Excel.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

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