Marketing and Business Development Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing and Business Development Assistant to join TLT.  This is a permanent role which can be based from our offices in Bristol, London, Manchester or Glasgow, with hybrid working and some travel to the other locations.

This role will suit a highly organised person managing a mix of regular activities, one-off task and longer projects with numerous stakeholders across the team, so you’ll be an excellent communicator who follows a collaborative approach.

Your role
Business Development & Bids

• Assisting with the production of branded credentials documents, team sheets, proposals and presentations to support winning new business.
• Supporting the efficient production of these documents by maintaining a library of precedent text, images and experience through our pitch management system.
• Assisting with completion of standard questionnaires for tenders and client audits.
• Capturing bid feedback and categorising to help to identify themes.
• Assisting with managing our referees, submissions, interviews and results in relation to legal directories.  

Events

• Working with the Events Manager and wider team with running virtual, in-person and hybrid events, attendance at conference, corporate hospitality and internal events including all aspects of event management.
• Researching and organising activities with a team building element for bespoke initiatives with specific clients and/or referrers.   
• Sourcing and managing branded merchandise to support events.
• Managing BD collateral (e.g. event stands, pull up banners and other physical assets).

Marketing

• Creation of website pages and updating content.
• Adding and updating content on our intranet.
• Creation and editing of video/podcast recordings.
• Support for marketing campaigns.
• Supporting with awards submissions and arrangements for attendance.

Client Engagement/Development

• Monitoring additions to the CRM system ensuring they are accurate and being involved in regular reviews to ensure it is up to date.
• Creating new mailing lists for events and legal updates based on search criteria provided.
• Running standards reports (such as relationship reports) but also creating bespoke reports and exports for the Business Development and Client Engagement teams.
• Organising professional photography for new joiners to the firm.
• Onboarding and arranging induction programme for new team members.
• Assisting with ‘content management’ across the team.
• Assisting with reporting on team and firmwide expenditure.
• Creating purchase order numbers and dealing with payments to suppliers.

Your skills and experience

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by technical excellence, with a willingness to embrace team working and a passion for client service. You will be able to demonstrate a supportive, flexible, and driven ethos and have the following experience and skills:

• Strong organisational and time management skills, able to work well under pressure and drive projects to completion.
• Excellent attention to detail. 
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills; credible, enthusiastic, confident, pro-active and robust.
• Experience of working in a professional services environment
• Marketing/Business Development experience is advantageous but also good entry level for someone wanting to move into this discipline.
• Experience of using BD/marketing technologies (e.g. CRM systems, email marketing platforms, webinar services and website/intranet content management systems) would be an advantage
• Ability to assimilate information quickly and a keen interest in developing your knowledge of TLT, the legal sector and the clients that we support.

Your team
You will be member of the Marketing Operations Team which is within Marketing and Business Development. This team is instrumental in creating awareness of our brand to identify and win new business opportunities as well as delivering for our existing clients. This involves establishing and nurturing relationships and using everything from events to media relations to tenders to explore new business ideas. Within the team, we have specialists in: Business Development, Bids, Internal and External Communications, Campaigns, PR, Client Engagement, Marketing and Design and Marketing Operations.  TLT is different because we live our values. This comes down to the hard work we have put in building and promoting a strong brand that aligns to our business strategy.

About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,600 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on Recruitment.Operations@TLTsolicitors.com