Head of Business Development & Marketing

We are an award-winning law firm with expertise in BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Jersey law and the agility to drive success for our clients in a fast moving world.  We provide legal advice shaped around the needs of corporate and private clients, financial institutions and intermediaries worldwide.

Working in multi-disciplinary teams, we marry thought leadership with a proactive approach to solving issues holistically – without a client needing to raise them – across geographies and practice areas in the most efficient and seamless way.  Through this approach – delivering reliability and stability with flair – we combine commercial acumen with service excellence that helps you to achieve your goals and stay ahead.

Our BD and Marketing team are responsible for proactively driving the demand for our global services, identifying prospects and converting leads to new business across all our locations.

As a key player in our management team, this significant role is critical as we continue to build our global presence, with overall accountability for the strategic planning, delivery and reporting of all our global business development and marketing activity.

We need a leader who is a dynamic self-starter, with specific law firm experience, creativity, drive, energy and enthusiasm.

This role will involve travel.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level, with a relevant professional qualification - likely to be in marketing, business or law.

Knowledge/skills/experience

• Significant senior level experience in marketing and business development in a mid-size professional services organisation operating in different jurisdictions.

• A good understanding of the legal market.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

• Excellent research, analysis and report writing skills.

• In depth knowledge and hands-on experience of marketing communications tools.

• Highly computer literate (with knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

• Effective time management and organisational skills.

• Experience of working with CRM (Client Relationship Management) systems.

• Experience of digital marketing and the use of social media.

• Excellent project management skills.

Competencies

• A dynamic self-starter with creativity and an appetite for change.

• The ability to communicate confidently and to be credible with clients, partners and staff at all levels.

• The ability to negotiate, effectively persuade and influence others.

• A commercial and solution driven attitude to problems.

• Positivity and enthusiasm, initiative, flexibility and drive.

• Delivering to tight deadlines and remaining calm under pressure.

• The desire and ability to lead, motivate and work collaboratively with others