Shakespeare Martineau is a Top 55 law firm that combines creativity, commerciality and clarity. We work with blue-chip companies, leading organisations, high street brands and individuals across the country.
As enterprising and original thinkers, we’re driven to create exceptional experiences for our clients and our people. We handle personal and business-critical issues and game-changing deals across many dynamic sectors. It’s stimulating and rewarding.
We’re hardworking and deeply ambitious about creating opportunities for our employees; to move forward and achieve our ambition together. We provide an environment in which you’re supported to reach your potential.
Our people have a blend of excellent technical and business skills with the talent to do things differently.
Here you’ll find top quality work, cutting edge training, high profile clients, and supportive colleagues. We think it could be time you joined us. |
The team:
To provide truly outstanding client service we work as one team. Our Business Operations Group is made up of business professionals who work with our legal professionals to provide market-leading expertise to our clients. The Groups include; Finance, Operations, HR, Sales and Marketing, IT, Risk and the Executive Leadership team.
Our Sales and Marketing team play a crucial role in helping the firm achieve its ambitious growth plans. The team is aligned to the business, shaping, embedding and delivering against the strategy, helping to retain and attract new clients whilst putting the client at the heart of everything we do. They are multi-disciplined, offering a range of services including client and business development, growth-led marketing, PR and communications and event planning for the firm.
It is an exciting time for the marketing function it is in the process of transforming its digital approach creating an inspiring creative environment. The team of around 30 are based across many of our offices. The team prides themselves on understanding the changing marketplace, clients, legal groups and the sectors in which the firm operate to offer specialist knowledge and expertise. |
The role:
We are looking for a web producer to work in our sales & marketing team based in the Birmingham or Nottingham office.
You will be responsible for updating and maintaining Shakespeare Martineau’s websites, assisting in the delivery of digital development projects and working closely with our digital agency.
You will have good analysis skills and be able to analyse the websites to understand what is working well and what is not. You will use analytic tools to review the sites performances and give recommendations for improvements.
Your role will be to optimise the Shakespeare Martineau websites ensuring continuous improvements in performance across all devices and browsers and ensuring the site provides the best client journey for all users.
Your key duties will be:
- maintaining responsive design; you will stay up to date on the web’s latest technologies and make sure that the sites are always mobile-friendly and multi-platform ready
- working with the digital marketing manager to develop the sites to add new content, features and enhance navigation
- building new and improving existing web pages using CMS (wordpress)
- debugging issues that arise with the performance of the websites
- conducting regular testing on the sites and reporting on functionality, ease of use and load time
- running and supporting conversion rate optimisation (CRO) programmes
- driving relevant traffic to the sites and ensuring that the sites rank highly in search engines; optimising and reporting upon SEO performance
- identifying and implementing regular website improvements through use of tools such as Google analytics and Hotjar
- supporting wider projects and lead small digital projects in liaison with stakeholders internally and externally
- supporting the sharing of digital marketing best practices across the team and wider function and where necessary helping produce training materials and deliver training
Skills and experience you will have:
- a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role is desirable
- active knowledge of HTML coding would be preferable but is not essential
- proficient knowledge in Microsoft office and Google analytics
- specialist knowledge in WordPress / website content management systems
- advanced knowledge of running and managing SEO activities and using software such as SEMrush
- a broad awareness of the impact digital marketing initiatives has on business development and to be able to utilise this awareness to recommend actions to improve the level of online enquiries
- excellent written and verbal communication skills
Key competencies you will need:
- exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
- to be committed to delivering excellent levels of service to internal and external clients at all times
- to be confident in working independently and able to react to change and prioritise accordingly
- to be able to analyse and interpret data to recommend / initiate appropriate action to improve performance
About you – you will be:
- passionate about digital marketing and a curiosity to learn new things and challenge ways of working
- highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
- respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
- keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of this
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Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. |
