Chambers is seeking to recruit a Senior Marketing Executive to drive Chambers’ marketing strategy whilst delivering high-profile events and strengthening digital engagement. The role combines strategic planning with hands-on execution across events, communications, social media and legal directories.

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Role Overview

As the Senior Marketing Executive, you will play a pivotal role in promoting the Chambers’ services, organising high-profile events and enhancing their digital presence. You will act as a key support to the Head of Marketing while mentoring their Marketing Executive, requiring a blend of strategic thinking, creativity, attention to detail and hands-on operational excellence.

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Job Description

Event Organisation

• Take a prominent role in the end-to-end planning, execution and budgeting of Chambers’ marketing events, conferences and internal events.
• Generate external speaking opportunities for members and cultivate relationships with external organisations.
• Oversee and mentor the Marketing Executive’s administration of delegate bookings and payments for conferences and seminars.
• Oversee the Marketing Executive’s preparation of papers and PowerPoint presentations (including formatting into house style).
• Contribute ideas to ensure effective event branding and promotion.
• Attend Chambers’ marketing events.
• Produce post-event evaluation and feedback reports and communicate internally.
• Monitor and ensure best practice when using CRM software (LEX) and ticket booking software (Eventbrite).

Brand and Design

• Act as a brand guardian, ensuring all visual communications and marketing collaterals are of the highest standard and aligned with our brand guidelines.
• Use Canva and other software to produce high-quality visuals.
• Source stock imagery.
• With the Head of Marketing, manage external supplier relationships, including creative agencies, printers and merchandise vendors.

Digital Marketing and Social Media

• Collaborate with the Head of Marketing to produce engaging online content, including thought-leadership pieces and member success stories. Encourage members to keep the Marketing Team up to date with relevant and recent judgments.
• Optimise Chambers’ social media accounts, analysing competitor presence to ensure we remain industry leaders.
• Oversee our CRM (LEX) and email marketing campaigns, ensuring best practices and high engagement rates.
• Liaise with our digital agency on website updates, performance and improvements.
• Encourage, monitor and implement profile updates from members.
• Monitor email campaigns sent via LEX.

Internal Communications

• Oversee content produced by the Marketing Executive for internal e-shot – Wilberforce Weekly – providing feedback and making corrections if necessary.
• Generally, help promote internal communication and cohesion.
• Monitor updates of the Intranet undertaken by the Marketing Executive
• Review the minutes, from marketing-related internal meetings, produced by the Marketing Executive.

Legal Directories and Awards

• Take a core role in the legal directory process to ensure members of Chambers meet deadlines and achieve new and improved rankings.
• Give ad hoc advice to barristers on how to prepare and improve their submissions and referee selection.
• Assist with evaluation of yearly rankings and results.

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Job Specification

Essential Skills

• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong track record of organising and delivering high-quality corporate events.
• Strong creative and design skills including prior experience of using Canva or Adobe Photoshop
• Comfortable in generating new ideas and thinking innovatively
• Strong English writing and proofreading skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• High AI literacy and high proficiency with technology generally
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office (Advanced Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Ability to prioritise workload across a number of different projects and demands, in a busy environment
• Experience using CRM software
• Experience in a similar role, gained within professional services or the legal sector

Desirable – two or more of the following:

• Experience managing large-scale conferences in the UK
• Experience managing events or projects from inception through to conclusion
• Experience producing copy for website and print
• A solid understanding of the unique structure of a barristers’ chambers and/or the wider legal industry.