Marketing Communications

Our elite global Law Firm client is seeking to recruit an experienced Associate Director Media Relations with in-house corporate, legal, financial services or professional services media relations/public relations experience to oversee media relations strategy and lead a team tasked with building brand visibility and expanding brand awareness across practice and industry groups.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee media relations strategy and lead a team tasked with building brand visibility and expanding brand awareness across practice and industry groups
• Collaborate with partners, attorneys and marketing business development teams on developing and executing media relations strategies to meet brand visibility goals
• Build and maintain strong relationships with influential legal, financial and business media professionals
• Oversee all practice related media relations and including the review of media pitches, byline story ideas, content, etc.
• Assist marketing and content teams with brand and executive visibility campaigns as needed
• Collaborate across the marketing and business development team to ensure consistent messaging strategies
• Develop and pitch new media ideas to partners and practice leaders
• Lead, coach and mentor junior media and public relations team members
• Work closely with senior marketing colleagues and the CMO on special projects, firmwide announcements and crisis communications

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree – Marketing, Communications, English or Journalism preferred
• 10+ years of in-house media relations or public relations leadership experience in the corporate, legal, business consulting or financial services industry
• Well developed relationships with influential legal, business and/or financial industry journalists or media industry professionals
• Demonstrated media relations and public relations expertise
• Prior experience leading or managing junior team members
• Experience managing relationships with senior management, practice leaders and/or attorneys
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail

Our elite global Law Firm client is seeking to recruit a Brand Content Manager to primarily support the firm’s legal recruiting teams with creating branding content and drafting and editing content for the firm’s awards and rankings process.

Responsibilities:

• Primarily support the firm’s legal recruiting teams with creating branding content and drafting and editing content for the firm’s awards and rankings process
• Work closely with the legal recruiting team to develop and execute recruitment focused content marketing strategies and brand building projects
• Draft, edit and revise recruitment related content ensuring proper alignment with the firm’s strategic messaging and brand visibility goals
• Oversee and manage the content process from creating to publication
• Create and edit award and ranking related content for the submission process
• Assist with high-priority website content creation
• Assist in creating speeches, talking points and other related content for internal communications initiatives
• Brainstorm and identify new content ideas to drive brand awareness with target audiences
• Supervise, mentor and coach junior content marketing staff

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years of content marketing, drafting and editing experience
• Prior legal industry marketing, communications and content creation experience strongly preferred
• Advance writing, editing and proofreading skills
• Demonstrated ability to gather and synthesize complex legal content into easy to digest and compelling narratives
• Strong project management experience and the ability to pivot between competing priorities
• Creative mindset with strong problem solving skills and meticulous attention to detail
• Outgoing and motivated with a strong ability to build and maintain relationships