Marketing & Business Development Assistant (UAEN)

Marketing & Business Development Assistant (UAEN)

Dubai

AED 16-20,00 per month

Our client is an international law firm, and this is a brand-new role and is open to UAEN who are also looking for a permanent Part Time role, they will consider fresh graduates preferably with a marketing degree, they might consider other candidates without the relevant degree if they are UAEN and have some relevant experience. The Marketing & Business Development Assistant's role is to provide marketing and business development support to all sector industry groups across our Middle East offices on a range of marketing and business development activities.  The successful candidate will collaborate with the worldwide Marketing & BD, Communications, Design and Knowledge Management teams in addition to Personal Assistants. Some travel to their other Middle East offices may be required. Please respect the criteria requirements and only apply if you meet these as you will not be considered if you do not, this role is not open to candidates who do not currently reside here.

Description:

  • Assisting with the preparation, co-ordination, amendments and delivery of pitches, panels and capability statements to tight deadlines
  • Assisting in the follow-up of BD and marketing opportunities and updating pipeline/reporting accordingly
  • Fielding requests for sources of information to support pitches across the business;
  • Proactively identifying and monitoring the progress of potential matters and credentials for internal or external promotion to regularly feed into directories, websites, internal newsletters
  • Supporting the Head of Marketing & BD and the regional team with various account management tasks
  • Working alongside Fee Earners and Personal Assistants to draft initial legal directory and awards submissions
  • Co-ordinating the approval and distribution of briefings and articles, including proofing, style checks, creation of ebriefings in Vuture and the scheduling of their distribution to relevant audiences alongside Knowledge Management, the Design team, and Personal Assistants
  • Supporting the client management system InterAction
  • Supporting the delivery and promotion of webinars and face-to-face events (which may include working outside of normal working hours)
  • Maintaining stocks of marketing collateral, organising for reprints and making minor updates where required, as well as ensuring updated documents (including CVs) are uploaded to the web
  • Providing support on key sponsorships and other external marketing opportunities;
  • Supporting administrative duties such as travel bookings, itineraries, expenses etc.
  • Assisting with Marketing & BD department projects in the Middle East or worldwide
  • Covering colleagues' absences
  • Any other ad hoc duties may be required

Criteria:

  • Must be a UAE National
  • Ideally, a minimum of six months' relevant experience gained within a professional services organisation, preferably legal however this isn’t essential
  • Excellent written skills with good attention to detail
  • Team player and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation
  • Strong IT skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.  Knowledge of content management and CRM (InterAction) systems advantageous
  • Good organisational skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks to deadline
  • Resourceful, able to use own initiative to find answers to queries
  • Educated or working towards a degree level or equivalent in Marketing
  • Ideally, a minimum of six months' relevant experience gained within a professional services organisation, preferably legal
  • Excellent written skills with good attention to detail
  • Team player and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation
  • Strong IT skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.  Knowledge of content management and CRM (InterAction) systems advantageous
  • Good organisational skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks to deadline
  • Resourceful, able to use own initiative to find answers to queries
  • Must currently reside in the UAE

Please respect the criteria requirements and only apply if you meet these as you will not be considered if you do not. We thank you for your application, however due to the high volume of candidate applications, we only accept online applications in the first instance. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted, however if you are not successful on this occasion, your CV will be stored on our database but to make sure you do not miss out, keep checking our website, follow us on Twitter and follow our Sapphire Recruitment LinkedIn page.

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