Marketing and Business Development Assistant - 12 month contract

Job Description

Marketing and Business Development Assistant

Dubai

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Marketing and Business Development Assistant on an initial 12 month contract, to support delivery of strategy, business development initiatives, marketing campaigns, and client relationship programmes.

As a key member of the Middle East BD and Marketing Team you will report to the Business Development Manager and collaborate across sectors, offices, and central teams to enhance the firm’s brand, win new work, and deepen client engagement.

This role will be based out of our Dubai Office, and our standard working hours are 9.00am-6.00pm, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Previous experience in a Marketing or Business Development role – ideally within a legal or professional services environment.
• Extensive experience in customer facing roles, with the ability to build internal and external relationships to enhance the firms’ reputation,
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, to be able to deal with stakeholders at multiple levels and across various teams.
• Great organisational skills, with experience creating highly accurate and detailed work.
• Evidence of being proactive in your work and taking the initiative for your own workload.
• Able to adapt to a fast-changing environment, showing resilience and bouncing back if setbacks occur.
• Already be situated and have experience in the UAE.
  
  
  

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.