Marketing & Business Development Executive
Location: London
Salary: Market Rate
Salary band: Dependant upon experience
Contract type: Permanent Date posted: 3rd December 2025
Blue Legal are partnering with a leading international law firm who are recruiting for a Marketing & Business Development Executive to join their London office. The Marketing & BD Executive supports the development and delivery of international business development and marketing initiatives for the Shipping group, ensuring effective coordination, communications, systems use, and client-focused activity across the firm.
The Responsibilities:
- Assist in creating and implementing international marketing and business development plans, including activity and budget recommendations.
- Coordinate and deliver high-quality, client-focused proposals in response to RFPs, RFIs, bids, and tenders.
- Build strong working relationships with specialist in-house teams and collaborate with the central marketing function to share knowledge and drive best practice.
- Maintain accurate and effective use of internal systems such as InterAction, Holmanet, Vuture, and Teams.
- Develop a broad understanding of the Shipping group and the firm’s competitive positioning across its core industry sectors.
- Deliver marketing materials and activities including brochures, research, website content, client briefings, webinars, and conference support.
- Support the planning and execution of internal and external events, including those outside standard working hours and across international offices.
- Assist with client development programmes, directory and award submissions, and initiatives to promote the shipping sector internally and externally.
The Candidate:
- Degree-educated with relevant professional services experience and a strong track record in delivering BD and marketing activities such as events, pitches, directory submissions, and collateral.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to work confidently with stakeholders at all levels, network effectively, and influence both internally and externally.
- Confident IT user with strong skills in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, CRM systems (e.g., InterAction), and familiarity with campaign and web content tools such as Vuture and CMS platforms.
