Senior Marketing Assistant (12 month contract)

at  AO Shearman

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with 48 offices in 29 countries worldwide. Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.
We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.
Whether you’re helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.
What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

As a Senior Marketing Assistant, you will support the Business Development managers and work closely with other business development and marketing team members and with other business areas such as Finance, IT and HR.

This will include:

• Taking a lead role in organising the programme of virtual and in-person events that the team host throughout the year. This will include: initial planning, finalising content, drafting both internal and external communications, providing support on the day of the event, and being the first point of contact for any logistical queries for clients. Will also coordinate and manage client hospitality events and conferences for fee earners.
• Taking responsibility for the directory submissions of the practice to the legal directories, including working closely with the associates on matter write ups, with the partners to approve the submissions and their referees, and then with the researchers of the directories to secure interviews and drive the best possible ranking.
• In conjunction with the Creative Services team, creating client facing materials including brochures, inserts and contact cards.
• Collating information for and helping to produce tailored CVs, credentials statements, and proposals.
• Creating and maintaining practice and sector infrastructure to track proposals, pricing, fees recovered and client feedback, and working with the BD team to ensure systems are kept up to date.
• Updating the relevant sections of the website and intranet as required.
• Using internal and external data to spot trends and opportunities in the market, and as required responding to ad-hoc research requests.
• Producing financial reports to provide background information on specific clients.
• Coordinating all Vuture mailings for the group.
• Supporting on our content and profile raising activities, with a particular focus on internal and external communications.
• Supporting the BD team with BD and marketing initiatives and other inputs as required.