Job Description

What we will offer

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We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us, you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you, The Deal, between the firm and its employees.

Team Structure

The firm\'s business development team focuses on three main areas: winning new business; building the firm\'s brand and developing fee-earner marketing/sales skills. The team in Singapore will comprise a total of 3 people: Head of Business Development, Business Development Executive and Business Development Assistant.

Our Director of Business Development is based in London. You will be part of a wider network of BD and marketing professionals around the world with team members variously responsible for BD, key client development, media relations, internal communications, web and e-comms, events, and CRM.

Main Responsibilities

Marketing Literature

• Profile sheets and CVs
• Maintaining and updating the profile sheet log.
• Liaising with external suppliers (printers/typesetters/designers) to support the production of marketing collateral.
• Managing reception area displays of marketing literature.
• Proofreading of marketing literature.
• Uploading and maintaining documents on the Intranet (QUEST).

Legal Directories (Legal 500/Chambers)

• Assisting with compiling submissions and uploading them onto the system.
• Updating rankings and commentary documents (including profile sheets) for practice groups following publication.

Intranet (QUEST), CRM system (InterAction)

• Keeping the department\'s Intranet pages up to date.

Events

• Assisting with events on behalf of practice areas, including client seminars, social events and webinars both in Singapore and internationally.
• Managing stock levels and distribution of printed materials and corporate gifts.
• Managing events logistics, including deliveries and CRM systems.

Invoices

• Pre-approval forms for events.
• Processing all invoices to meet payment runs and other deadlines, gaining approval for payment.
• Liaising with suppliers and the accounts department in order to resolve queries and chase urgent/outstanding payments.
• Preparing expense claim form for payments

General BD team co-ordination and support

• Updating the BD database.
• Booking meetings/appointments, rooms and conference calls - rescheduling as necessary, diary management.
• Typing, formatting and editing ad hoc requests - documents, presentations etc.
• Checking presentations for brand compliance and making amends/recommendations as appropriate.
• Updating various practice group related memberships and directory listings.
• Dealing with other ad hoc tasks and projects from BDM\'s, fee earners, secretaries.
• Maintaining order of the BD storage space. Keeping a log of items stored.
• Occasional internet research projects.

International Offices

• Ensuring marketing literature is distributed to the international offices as and when required.
• Assisting international BD teams with requests for information and marketing literature.
• Working closely with international BD teams and ensuring they are kept up-to-date with upcoming projects.

Attributes/Skills Required

• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Excellent team worker and able to work well within a job share capacity.
• Good work ethic and focussed.
• Initiative to solve problems and a \'can do\' attitude with a mature outlook.
• Strong organisational and multi-tasking skills \xe2\x80\x93 ability to prioritise and execute a variety of tasks and to manage own quality of work and deadlines quickly and accurately.
• Strong attention to detail.
• A good ambassador for the team and the firm with an outgoing personality that is happy to get involved in organising and promoting the firm at events.
• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Good literacy skills.
• Flexibility of working outside normal office hours where necessary.
• Looking for a career in Business Development.
• A university degree in marketing is preferred.
• No previous experience required - on the job training and support will be given.
• Additional language skills and overseas exposure is an advantage.

About the Firm

With 8 offices worldwide and with our headquarters based in London, Stephenson Harwood is a law firm where our people are committed to achieving the goals of our clients - listed and private companies, institutions, and individuals across the globe. Our mix of expertise and culture results in a combination of deep local insight and the capability to provide a seamless international service.

Our experience encompasses corporate, commercial litigation and arbitration, employment, pensions and private wealth, finance, marine and international trade, and real estate and projects.

We assemble teams of bright thinkers to match our clients\' needs and give the right advice from the right person at the right time. Dedicating the highest calibre of legal talent to overcome the most complex issues, we deliver pragmatic, expert advice that is set squarely in the real world.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

Our values:

Individuality - We encourage creativity and develop talent

Commitment - To be the best and deliver the highest standard

Teamwork - We work together to build close, long-term relationships

Straight talking - We say what we mean and do what we say

These values express the personality of the individuals within our firm. They are the behaviours we encourage in our people and the standards which inform our decisions and actions.

Our vision into 2026

To be a successful firm where talented people work together in an entrepreneurial environment, building long term client relationships.

This vision is about who we want to be, as well as who we are. It is as much about our values as about our character \xe2\x80\x93 the attributes we want to see from all of our people. It also reflects the importance of remaining independent - a clear sign that we are confident in our own future. That\'s how we unlock our entrepreneurial spirit, advising our clients with top performing teams.

A key part of the 2026 strategy is to focus on five core sectors: decarbonisation, life sciences, private capital & funds, technology, and transportation & trade. These have been identified as crucial in the drive for accelerated profitable growth.

Stephenson Harwood