Marketing & Business Development Assistant

Job description / Role

Marketing & Business Development Assistant - Muscat, Oman

Morgan McKinley is currently seeking an Experienced Marketing & Business Development Assistant to join a Global Law Firm based in Muscat, Oman.
The successful candidate will be working closely with the global MBD team and will be reporting to the Senior MBD Manager.

Key Responsibilities and Experience:
- Supporting the regional team in the production of marketing collateral, including office brochures/practice experience statements.
- Ensure a constant supply of branded items is available for use across the region.
- Supporting the team in the production/delivery/internal promotion of both Oman-specific and region-wide client alerts.
- Collating contributions for internal newsletters and reports.
- Profile raising / PR opportunities, including internal profiling of successes and maintaining the regional media database.
- Assisting with the firm website is up to date and is used effectively to support the development of firm profile and as a springboard for the firm's online profile.
- Supporting client events from start to finish
- Updating the client database/facilitate the correct use of Inter Action in supporting events, providing training/ support as required.
- Supporting pitches/proposals and managing experience statements, including liaising with the global MBD team with regard to regional/global pitch/experience requests.
- Researching and resourcing, on existing/prospective clients/potential opportunities industry and/or market trends.
- Working with the Muscat MBD Manager to develop/coordinate/maintain/disseminate sector focused reports.
- Legal directories - working closely with the MBD team lead to support the legal directory process, including updating rankings and ensuring most current quotes are available to the MBD team for pitch support.
- BD initiatives - working closely with the MBD Managers to support key regional cross-selling initiatives, including but not limited to tracking/coordinating memberships.
- Ensuring relevant MBD databases are up to date, including but not limited to: Awards & Accolades, Collateral, Credentials, Events, PR, Pitch databases.
- Supporting strategic internal events including practice group/regional.
- Supporting regional practices/offices BDM invoicing management and budgeting support.

Requirements

- Minimum of 1 – 2 Year experience as a Marketing Assistant with a Law Firm or Professional Services Industry
- Bilingual, English and Arabic

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.