Business Development Executive UKIME (Dentons Business Services EMEA)

Dentons Business Services EMEA serves as the operational backbone of Dentons, supporting the world’s largest law firm in delivering exceptional service to clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

As a crucial component of Dentons' global network, our EMEA business services team plays a key role in driving efficiency, innovation, and collaboration. 

At Dentons Business Services EMEA, we are committed to excellence in supporting legal professionals with cutting-edge solutions. Our dynamic and diverse team collaborates seamlessly to provide a wide range of services, including finance, IT, human resources, marketing, and more. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability. 

This is a temporary position for a duration of 20 months.

As you will be supporting employees based in the UK and Ireland, your work schedule will follow UK working hours, and the UK calendar of bank holidays will apply.

Role Purpose 

This is an exciting role which is an integral part of the UK, Ireland & Middle East Disputes practice. The BD Executive will, together with the BD Executive and Senior BD Manager, provide support on marketing and business development activity across the Disputes division, which also includes our Restructuring & Insolvency and Regulatory & Investigations practice.  The role will be focused on delivering strategic objectives in relation to campaigns, events, sponsorship management, directory submissions, thought leadership, client relationship management and client targeting.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Profile Raising:

• 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.

Winning Work

• Support the production of proposals (content creation, editing, team coordination, branding, and pricing compliance).
• Collaborate with the Senior BD Manager to develop high-quality proposal materials and ensure consistent messaging across platforms.
• 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

• Assist in planning and executing client events (in-person and virtual).
• Draft invitations, manage logistics, and create targeted 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.

Requirements

• Significant relevant marketing and organisational experience
• Experience managing the legal directories process
• Experience of working in a legal and/or 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
• Good attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• 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)

Benefits

• Private medical healthcare provided by Medicover 

• MultiSport card 

• Benefit Cafeteria system 

• Veterinary care for your pet provided by PetHelp 

• Option to join a private insurance plan 

• An additional day off for your birthday 

• Tailored learning & development opportunities 

• Hybrid work model with a modern office in Warsaw city center