Marketing & BD Coordinator

Job Title

Marketing & Business Development Coordinator

Reporting to

Clients & Markets Manager

Direct reports

N/A

Hours

9.00am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday with additional hours when required.

Role purpose

The Marketing & Business Development Coordinator plays a central delivery role within the BD & Marketing team. Sitting between the Assistant and Senior BD Executive levels, this person is expected to work with a high degree of independence to support campaigns, client development activity, events, BD follow-up, and marketing operations.

Reporting to the Clients & Markets Manager, this is a broad-based, hands-on role ideal for someone eager to build experience across the full marketing and business development mix - including campaigns, events, digital, client relationships, pitching, PR and internal communications.

We are committed to investing in the career development and progression of our people. The successful candidate will gain structured training, close mentoring from senior members of the team, and the opportunity to take on increasing responsibility as their confidence and experience grow.

Guided by our SPHERE values - Supportive, Professional, Honest, Encouraging, Respectful and Empowering, this person will be part of a collaborative, high- performing team, gaining exposure to all aspects of marketing and BD while helping deliver work that makes a real difference to our clients and colleagues.

The role is designed for someone with approximately 18 months+ experience who can take ownership of tasks end-to-end, bringing maturity, proactivity and attention to detail.

Key responsibilities

Campaigns & Marketing Delivery

· Help prepare materials for marketing initiatives, ensuring accuracy,

consistency and alignment with the firm's brand.

· Coordinate sector and firmwide BD and marketing campaigns.

· Prepare marketing collateral and ensure consistency with brand guidelines.

· Assist with internal communications relating to BD initiatives.

Funnel Management

· Own follow-up cycles from events, campaigns, pitches and BD meetings.

· Maintain BD trackers, lists, opportunity pipelines and CRM records.

· Ensure BD activity across practices is visible, organised, and progressed.

Client & Market Development

· Conduct desk research and produce client research packs on prospects, industries, competitors and clients

· Assist in preparing targeting lists, relationship mapping, and opportunity summaries.

· Provide structured support for sector leads and BD workstreams.

· Support partners by preparing meeting briefs, pitch materials and capability documents (working closely with Senior BD Execs).

Events & Engagement

· Coordinate logistics and communications for client events and webinars.

· Manage team-on-team events.

· Support post-event follow-up and reporting.

· Work collaboratively with the Senior Events Executives to deliver high-quality events.

BD Communications & Reporting Coordination

· Collate the quarterly BD newsletter, ensuring high-quality content and timely distribution.

· Prepare and share weekly pipeline updates.

· Produce a monthly performance and activity summary, highlighting key metrics and progress.

Skills, experience and attributes

· Around 18 months-2 years' experience in marketing or business

development, ideally in professional services.

· Digital fluency across CMS, CRM, email marketing and analytics tools.

· Highly organised with strong task management skills.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.

· Highly organised, reliable and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.

· Curious, proactive and eager to learn from a wide range of marketing and BD activities.

· Confident working independently and progressing workstreams without supervision.

· Team-oriented, collaborative and positive - someone who enjoys working with others and contributing to shared goals.

· Confident using technology and comfortable learning new systems.

· Professional, personable and aligned with the firm's SPHERE values -

Supportive, Professional, Honest, Encouraging, Respectful and Empowering