Job Description

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Business Support

Date posted

04/11/2025

Job reference

HJ0407

The Role

We're looking for an enthusiastic and creative Marketing Executive to join our Business Development & Marketing team in Cardiff, supporting the Business Client Services Division.

As part of a dynamic team of 24 marketing, communications, and business development professionals, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality marketing activity that promotes our services, supports client relationships, and enhances the Hugh James brand.

Working closely with the Marketing Manager and key partners, this hands-on role offers exposure to the full marketing mix, from events and campaigns to digital communications and storytelling. You'll collaborate across teams and help drive impactful initiatives that align with the firm's strategy and values.

Key Responsibilities

Build effective working relationships with partners, fee-earners, and colleagues across the Business Division and the wider Marketing and Business Development teams to coordinate delivery and share insight.

Support the organisation and delivery of in-person, online, and external events, including sourcing venues, coordinating invitations and delegate lists, preparing speaker notes and presentation slides, greeting and registering attendees, compiling post-event reports, and supporting follow-up communications.

Create and develop marketing collateral such as brochures, product and capability sheets, pitch and proposal documents, one-page briefings, and CVs, ensuring consistency with brand identity and messaging.

Support content and thought leadership by researching relevant topics and identifying opportunities for case studies and client success stories.

Plan, prepare, and distribute newsletters, event invitations, and other outbound campaigns using the firm's email marketing platform (Vuture), ensuring compliance with data protection, brand standards, and campaign objectives.

Manage campaign data records of marketing activity in the firm's CRM system and assist in tracking the effectiveness of marketing activities and contribute to post-campaign reviews and reporting.

Work collaboratively with the firm's PR and Digital Communications teams to supply divisional content for the website, social media channels, and internal communications platforms. Contribute to internal updates highlighting divisional marketing initiatives and successes, ensuring all materials are accurate, engaging, on-brand, and appropriately approved. Maintain and enhance the firm's digital presence across relevant website pages, online profiles, and listings to ensure consistency, professionalism, and alignment with campaign objectives.

Desirable Skills and Experience

Design proficiency - ability to use Adobe InDesign and Canva to create professional marketing materials and short-form video content.

Digital literacy - familiarity with CRM systems (InterAction), email marketing platforms (e.g. Vuture), and content management systems for web updates.

Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to draft clear, accurate, and engaging copy, and liaise confidently with stakeholders at all levels.

Organisational ability - capable of managing multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail under pressure.

Collaboration - shows a can-do attitude and willingness to support colleagues and shows initiative in developing knowledge of legal services, marketing tools, and best practice.

Professionalism and discretion - able to handle confidential information appropriately and represent the firm's values at all times.

Analytical curiosity - interested in evaluating marketing performance data to understand impact and inform improvement.

Life at Hugh James

We never shy away from a challenge

We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges - of all sizes - are readily accepted.

The Hugh James difference

Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what's important keeps us driving forwards. It's in our roots! We won't stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.

We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth - servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.

A positive force in the community

Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.

Some of our benefits on offer include:

Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Two Corporate Social Responsibility days

Birthday day off

Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary

Auto enrolment pension scheme

Hybrid working

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts for local businesses

Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)

Employee recruitment incentive scheme

Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Adam Jones.

We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.