Marketing and Business Development Data Assistant – 5 Months Fixed Term Contract in Birmingham

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We have a well-established global Marketing and Business Development (M&BD) team, which supports the firm on a wide range of business development, client relationship management and reputational activities. The team is divided into several key areas including Practice M&BD, Client Development and Industry M&BD, Corporate Communications, which comprises Public Relations, Brand, Design, Events, and on-line; Pitches and Pursuits, which manage strategic global pitches; and Campaigns and Projects, a team dedicated to managing and driving forward firm-wide profile building initiatives.

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office.

Role Overview: We need a capable and enthusiastic Data Assistant to support the M&BD team in BD and marketing activities. In particular this role will focus on supporting the firm’s global Experience Management system – Foundation. This crucial project will require compilation, review and cleansing of experience records across global practice areas to ensure a thorough and consistent dataset is available. Experience data is across excel documents, digital databases and collected via live data capture calls with lawyers. As such, candidates need to be effective across mediums and skill sets, including written and verbal communication, time and project management, Microsoft products (particularly excel) and managing data sets. This data will be essential to the M&BD function’s ability to respond to pitches, prepare credentials lists, secure PR opportunities and improve market profile through submissions to legal directories and league tables.

Skills & Experience:

• Qualifications & Training: Degree level education or equivalent, specialising in Law. Proficient across MS Office, particularly excel.
• The Candidate: Understanding of the legal market (in terms of key practice areas, products and work types) to aid familiarity with terminology. A general understanding of the commercial world, industry sectors and its drivers. Impactful communication skills to lead data collection calls with lawyers. Good written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail, to liaise with partners. Very strong data management skills within a digital database. Effective project management skills including the ability to plan ahead and prioritise conflicting demands to meet deadlines for the team. Demonstrates a keen interest in self-development and shows initiative. Team player who is proactive with a ‘can do attitude’. Demonstrates consistent excellent service delivery to internal clients. Demonstrates an understanding of the firm’s business and marketplace. Experience in, and comfortable with, working in a partnership or equivalent professional services environment. Proficient in Excel.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement: It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further. All vacancies are open to direct applicants. Recruitment agencies; please be advised that we have a preferred supplier list in place for all roles.