We are looking for a talented Marketing and Events Co-ordinator to join our wider Marketing, Business Development and Communications team, to support the business across our offices in Manchester, Leeds, Halifax, and Cambridge.
You will work closely with the Marketing Manager – Events, Sponsorship & Business Development and the Marketing Manager – Content & Digital, contributing across all firm led and third party events, CRM, email marketing and social media, playing a key part in projects and programmes that make a real impact on the commercial success of the firm.
Key responsibilities
Events & Business Development- Act as the primary events co-ordinator for all external firm-run events from start to finish
- Attend firm-run events to act as on-site support
- Be the go-to contact for event logistics and admin support – working with everyone from trainees to partners
- Source and procure giveaways; work with our designer to create and transport events collateral for all events including third-party events we attend / sponsor
- Assist with event follow-on admin activities including HubSpot data entry
- Maintain the annual events calendar
- Take responsibility for updating website content and coordinating social media activity connected to event attendance and promotion
- Support the Content and Digital Marketing Manager with maintaining HubSpot mailing lists, managing workflows, gathering performance data and delivering content through the platform
Skills, knowledge and expertise
- Previous experience within a similar role, gained within a law firm or professional services environment
- Detail-oriented and well-organised with the ability to understand wider commercial and marketing goals
- Ability to prioritise workloads and manage competing obligations
- Articulate, confident, and commercially minded
- Self-motivated, able to work without supervision and to take responsibility as appropriate
- Willingness to travel to other offices and events when needed
Desirable
- A Degree in Marketing (or related field)
- Knowledge of HubSpot, SharePoint, WordPress and / or other content management platforms
Benefits
We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone – but big enough to offer you great career prospects. At Appleyard Lees, you won't feel like a number or just another cog in the wheel. We understand everyone is individual and offer a friendly and supportive place to work and learn.
We also offer
- 34 hour working week, Monday - Friday
- Agile working
- A supportive and friendly place to work and learn
- Annual salary review
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Salary Exchange
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Cash Plan & Wellbeing App
- Group Income Protection
- Long Service Milestones
- Social outings
- Vouchers on Christmas, Birthdays and Special Occasions
- Charity events
About us
Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm with approximately seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators across offices in Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, and Cambridge.
We provide a full range of intellectual property (IP) services covering patents, trade marks, designs and copyright in the UK, Europe and worldwide. We use our technical and legal skills, and many years of experience, to identify and protect IP assets and to uncover and eliminate the risks posed by other people’s IP rights.
Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.Our clients include some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies, and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, and Forbes Global 2000 status. Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals, and heavy industry, higher education, and hospitality, leisure, and tourism.
Equality diversity inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) has always been part of the core values of Appleyard Lees. To us, diversity is not just a box-ticking exercise, it is a core part of our firm’s values . Diversity of people means diversity of ideas and perspectives, and these allow us to be more creative and flexible as a business.
We welcome the unique contribution that a diverse workforce will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
