Marketing and Business Development Executive

Marketing and BD Executive
- Are you a proactive and creative Marketing and Business Development Executive?_

If so, we need you We are looking for someone with bags of enthusiasm to join our brilliant team. We work hard together and achieve excellent results.

About the role

The Executive will work within the BD and Marketing team to:

- Project manage and co-ordinate the delivery of core business development and marketing activities daily.
- Provide high-quality service experience for internal clients and third parties while adhering to our brand guidelines and business development best practice.
- Drive improvement in the usage of key marketing and business development systems and toolkits.

Key responsibilities include:
Targeting
- Gather and analyse market research
- Identify services, products, and cross selling opportunities to offer to prospects and share suggestions with others
- Project manage lead generation activities

Event support
- Plan, organise and coordinate communications and implementation of specific events and webinars
- Liaise with external suppliers (catering / venues / speakers etc)
- Liaise with speakers and manage internal communications
- Coordinate planning meetings with editorial teams
- Research topical and relevant content ideas
- Review and proofread content

Adverts and sponsorships
- Work closely with Marketing Assistant and design agency to coordinate, design and create adverts
- Organise specific sponsorships

Literature and publications
- Prepare copy and design, working with BD and Marketing team members and/or design agency
- Design of presentations

Sectors
- Organise and attend marketing events, conduct research, produce marketing materials
- Support delivery of sector / service line BD and Marketing plans
- Identify possible PR opportunities

Sales
- Provide support to the Business Development Director and Managers, Office Sales Partners and relevant Service / Sector Heads
- Update and manage the enquiries database and inbox
- Take responsibility for maintaining proposal tool kit
- Produce proposals, tender documents and pitches

BD support services
- Coordinate with external agencies / suppliers as required
- Share information with the full marketing/BD team
- Collate client listening data
- Co-ordinate opportunity follow up and pipeline development
- Support fee earners to deliver their BD plan objectives and targeting

BD activity measurement
- Database management and reporting
- Periodic report co-ordination

External profile
- Attend industry and external functions
- Track and follow up for International and Intermediary referrals and activities

About you

This role would suit someone who already has experience in the above areas at an Assistant level and is looking for their next challenge, to grow and develop their career in a supportive team.

You are proactive, creative and organised and care about making sure your work is of the highest quality. You know how important it is to make sure we make the right impression.

Most importantly, you’ll be passionate and enthusiastic about business development. You are always looking for ways to ensure our clients receive exceptional service, retain existing fees and win new work.

About Kreston Reeves

We are so much more than just accountants, business and wealth advisers

Our purpose is to guide our clients, colleagues, and communities to a brighter future.

We’re committed to living by our purpose and values - 'Understand’, 'Look ahead’, 'Make it personal’, 'Be crystal clear’ and 'Be human’. And have created a culture in which we strive for our clients, colleagues, and communities to thrive.

We work as a team and have a wide range of skills, specialisms, and expertise amongst us. We pride ourselves on being a socially responsible employer and have a very active Corporate Social Responsibility programme which holds us accountable against fourof the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals - 'Good health and wellbeing’, 'Quality education’, 'Reduced inequalities’ and 'Climate action’.

Our people are our core asset so it’s important to us that we create an environment where they are recognised, included and valued.