Marketing Business Development Executive

Job Description
Marketing Business Development Executive
Are you experienced Marketing Business Development Executive and interested in developing a great career and looking for a new challenge?
If so we’d love to hear from you!
What we can offer you....
A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work and the freedom to manage when and how you do it
The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly partners who all want to help you thrive
Exposure to excellent development and collaboration within your team
A competitive package with amazing benefits!
The Opportunity:
Working closely with the Office Heads, this role will primarily support the delivery of our regional growth plans for Sheffield, Lincoln, Nottingham and Leicester. This role will also support their line manager in the business areas they support.
Your key duties will be:
supporting the development and delivery of regional business plans incorporating business plans and sales and marketing plans for Sheffield, Lincoln, Nottingham and Leicester
driving business development initiatives and activities forward, ensuring that business development stays at the forefront of fee earners minds and bring them together to collaborate in their activities across the offices you will be responsible for
acting as a conduit between the local office teams and marketing specialisms team
identifying targeting initiatives and developing go-to-market strategies alongside marketing colleagues
attending and leading relevant business development meetings
working with cross-firm teams to identify opportunities in key sectors and markets
championing CRM, acting as a super-user/mentor and continue to monitor and encourage fee earner use of CRM.
identifying new areas of referral and planning how best to leverage those relationships
researching partnership/sponsorship opportunities and working with the wider team to create event and activation plans, monitor ROI and challenge colleagues to ensure appropriate follow up is undertaken as part of the sponsorship
please note that we do expect the role holder to be able to spend time in these offices in particular and other offices as and when required
What you'll need:
a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively liaise with colleagues, stakeholders and third parties
an ability to influence others at different levels
demonstrable knowledge of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire markets is desirable
experience in the use of Microsoft Dynamics or equivalent CRM is desirable
Meet the team:
Our close-knit Business Development & Marketing team is broadly split into three areas: communications, specialisms and business development. Our purpose is to help the Ampa group fulfil its growth ambitions.
Sitting within the business development team and working closely with our fee earners, we have an exciting opportunity for a business development executive to help accelerate growth across our services and sectors.
Want to know more about us?
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
How we work
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly home based with travel as required into Birmingham or one of our other West Midlands hubs
Please note - This role will be based in our hub in Leicester, Nottingham or Birmingham
Our standard office hours are Monday – Thursday 9.00am to 5.30pm and Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm. Due to the nature of this role candidates will need to be flexible in terms of working hours; in addition to our standard hours cover will be required during evenings and weekends.
Additional information
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.
Equal opportunities
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.