Business Development Executive

Team: Business Development
Department: Clients & Markets
Location: Dublin
Role Type: Hybrid (3 days in the office)
Reports to: Business Development Manager
Reference no: 9851

Role Purpose

The Business Development Executive will provide support on marketing and business development activity across our Competition, Antitrust and Foreign Investment team and our Tax team. The role will be focused on delivering strategic objectives in relation to practice initiatives; including proposals, events, sponsorship management, client relationship management and client targeting.

Key Duties & Responsibilities Securing Work

• Responsible for the production of proposals (content creation, editing, team coordination, branding, and pricing compliance).
• Support and assist with implementation of client development and strategies.
• Develop high quality materials for use in proposals to convey UK positioning, experience and sales messages to clients and targets. Ensure that this content is replicated in appropriate systems and all communication channels.
• Act as a proposal process ambassador and ensure proposals are logged and outcomes tracked.
• Conduct research on organisations, sectors, and individuals.

Events and sponsorship management

• Qualifying proposals for new events in line with our strategic objectives and our wider event programme.
• Responsible for planning and executing client events (in-person and virtual).
• Organising all logistics including the drafting of invitations, managing third party providers, and targeting mailing lists.
• Leverage sponsorships for client engagement and manage post-event follow-ups, including ROI tracking

Campaign Management

• Support the development and delivery of marketing campaigns.
• Draft and design marketing content for internal and external use.
• Work with the Digital Marketing team for online rollout, ensuring brand compliance and tracking ROI.
• Prepare award entries, legal directory submissions, and explore profile-raising opportunities.
• Maintain and update website and social media content with the Communications team.
• Ensure all materials follow brand and visual identity guidelines.

Required experience, skills and knowledge

• Significant relevant marketing and organisational experience
• Experience of working in a legal and professional services environment
• Understands when to act and when to ask
• Builds trust amongst fee earning teams and wider stakeholder community
• Understands the need and has the ability to manage expectations
• Interest in working with specialist competition and tax teams
• Highly capable of both written and spoken communication
• Willingness to take on additional responsibility and deputise for their line manager when required
• Sound working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Qualification Requirements of the Role

• Graduate calibre with demonstrable and/or professionally recognised marketing or communications qualification (such as CIM, etc).

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, neurotype, disability, or with parental or caring responsibilities. We are also "Happy to Talk Flexible Working" and welcome conversations about flexible working arrangements.

Dentons is a Disability Confident employer. Candidates with a disability may choose to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme. We will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Where application volumes are high, we may offer interviews to those who best meet the minimum criteria, consistent with our approach for all candidates.