Senior Marketing and Business Development Executive - Fixed term contract London or Edinburgh Role Overview Here at Pinsent Masons, we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results. Our people are our success, and we work as one team. We are recruiting a Senior Marketing and Business Development Executives to provide targeted and considered marketing and business development BD support to the financial services (FS) sector groups. This role is a maternity cover and whilst we are starting the recruitment now, it is set to run ideally from the start of March 2026 to the end of April 2027. This role carry a high degree of autonomy and involves operating with partner level stakeholders- it is very much a 'trusted advisor' role and the partners look to this team for ideas, strategic input, a dynamic approach, and informed views, as well as effective multi-channel BD support for collaboration with sector colleagues. This role can be based out of our London or Edinburgh office, and we have a standard working week of 35 hours a week, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests. Candidate Overview We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience: Proven experience at a Senior Marketing and BD level, or exceptional quality at an exec level, ideally within the legal industry or similar partnership environments. Able to lead on content creation for several outputs, including capability documents, client brochures, pitches, thought leadership campaigns and various social media channels. Experienced in Events / conference management and attendance. Evidence of working as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders such as Partners - giving advice and guidance and being able to challenge where necessary. Experience in the management of sector specific trade memberships and award submissions. Comfortable working across various 'levels' of work, from strategic to administrative. Able to take genuine ownership of this role with minimal supervision - managing a complex and varied workload, keeping up to date with news and trends, and being an early adopter of new technology (for example Copilot for research and document creation). What happens next? Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email. We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate. Our strength lies in our differences. We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow.We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. LI-BONF