Our elite US law firm client is hiring a new Legal Events Specialist in their London office to work directly with their client base of professional membership organisations wihtin the Life Sciences sector.
- Salary up to £65,000
- Hybrid working - 3 days office & 2 remote (Some flex required dependent on events calendar
- Fantastic benefits and culture
The Legal Events Specialist will work closely with the Events Manager and serve as a liaison and coordinator of the legal networks for the firm’s clients. The legal networks are membership-based benchmarking and networking groups for in-house regulatory counsel, working on specific areas of regulatory law. Alongside the Legal Networks Manager, the Legal Events Specialist will work directly with Partners and other stakeholders and assist in coordinating the legal networks membership groups.
Duties as a Legal Events Specialist:
- Function as a primary liaison between the legal networks and its members. This includes answering queries, providing information, preparing regular communication activities, maintaining membership records, and assisting with the annual renewals process.
- Direct engagement with the firm’s colleagues to promote the legal networks through a variety of channels, including drafting tailored emails for lawyer outreach to clients, and presenting the benefits of the networks on internal calls and at practice group meetings.
- Cross-sell other legal networks to the existing networks membership base when the opportunity arises.
- Annually review and contact paying members who are not actively using their membership for feedback.
- Undertake research within the legal networks extranet site for topics covered at past meetings or within previous benchmarking reports to assist the firm’s lawyers with billable matters. Curate and summarize research into clear and concise reports and communicate findings to the lawyers promptly.
- Chair regular planning calls with the planning teams for each legal network to ensure the network meetings are making adequate progress.
- Draft and coordinate all related internal and external communications.
- Work closely with the planning teams, the Events Manager, regional and relevant Business Development and Marketing colleagues, and IT on event logistics, including invitations, strategic development of guest lists, nametags, handout materials, site management, multimedia, speakers, visual presentations, and follow-up.
Skills as a Legal Events Specialist:
- Experience planning and leading events in a corporate environment, working directly with professional membership organisations.
- On-site event management.
- A Bachelor’s degree, preferably in event management, marketing, business, or related field
- Experience of using CRM software (i.e., Salesforce, InterAction).
- Advanced knowledge of internal marketing databases and technologies to track, maintain, and disseminate content, including Vuture and InterAction.