Mewburn Ellis | Business Development Executive

We are Mewburn Ellis the forward-looking European IP firm. We work with organisations building the brands and technologies that will define tomorrow. We help them use their intellectual property to navigate that journey – to imagine, plan, nurture, protect and deliver their innovations to market.

We are over 350 colleagues strong across five offices in Bristol, Cambridge, London, Manchester, and Munich. The culture and personality of the firm is ambitious, relaxed and friendly.

We are recruiting for Business Development Executive to join our Marketing and Business Development team in London.

The role and responsibilities

This is a position for a Business Development (BD) professional who has a strong commercial focus. You need to be highly intelligent too and be nimble in your thinking. Ours is a fast paced and intellectually intense environment, where you always have to be on your toes and one step ahead.

Working with the Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) Managers you will support BD activity for all our practice groups. You will also work closely with the M&BD team on firmwide projects and tasks and help to write presentations, pitches and tenders.

The role with have a range of responsibilities including;

• Building target lists as well as helping with the preparation of market and client knowledge research studies across the practice groups as well as research into conferences, events and trade body involvement.
• Supporting the management of the BD elements of HubSpot.
• The development of work highlights and referees and management of directory submissions.
• Helping with the content of all service materials as needed such as brochures, profiles, deal lists and case studies.

What’s in it for you?

We have an excellent benefits package which includes:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days leave (exc. Bank Holidays)
• Health scheme including Health Assurance
• Generous pension scheme, enhanced family leave
• Cycle to work scheme, interest-free season travel ticket loan
• Firmwide discretionary bonus scheme
• Paid day off for charitable endeavours
• Discount Voucher Scheme, Electric Car Scheme
• Workplace ISA, Medicash, Care concierge

Our successful growth story is down to our people. And we take the wellbeing of our people seriously – offering a huge suite of initiatives to de-stress, engage and enthuse. We care about wider society too, and the communities in which we operate – read about our Forward Community Programme to find out more about how we\’re giving back.

About you

You don’t need to know about IP but it’s obviously an advantage. You don’t even have to have worked in a law firm, although of course this is useful. What you do need is to be commercial, dynamic and ambitious and want a role where you are part of a strong team that all muck in together to get the job done. You need to have ideas, take responsibility and be a good communicator. You will be part of a small team, and everyone supports each other. You will be able to navigate a complex and very intelligent environment and to be able to bring people with you.

You will be commercially focused and think from a client’s perspective when managing tasks and consider the value that you can add in everything you do. You will be able to operate in a fast-paced environment, have excellent IT skills with experience of CRM systems and, ideally, HubSpot.

To make an application please forward your CV to Victoria Moore at recruitment@mewburn.com

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply.

We reserve the right to cease advertising should we receive a high number of applicants.

Note for agencies:

Mewburn Ellis work with a select number of agencies to support our recruitment. CVs will only be accepted from agencies we have agreements with, and who have been briefed specifically on the vacancy. We request that you do not to send speculative CVs, or candidate details, for this role.