Job Description

Marketing Director

Department: Marketing

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Manchester

We are now looking for a Marketing Director to join our leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping the firm's growth. This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of our marketing and business development strategy, connecting it more directly than ever to our commercial objectives and future direction.

This is not a role focused on maintaining the status quo. We are looking for someone who will bring clarity, challenge, and fresh thinking, helping us to better articulate what makes us different and to convert that into measurable growth.

Please note: regular travel between all four of our office locations, including Cambridge, will be required.

Key Responsibilities

As Marketing Director, you will work closely with our CEO, partners and sector leads to define and deliver a marketing and business development approach that supports the firm’s long-term ambitions.

You will:

Set and lead a firm-wide marketing and BD strategy aligned to our commercial goals
Work alongside partners to strengthen client relationships and support the growth of key accounts
Introduce greater structure and focus to client development and new business activity
Oversee the evolution of our brand, profile and market positioning
Use insight and data to inform decisions and demonstrate impact
Lead and develop our established marketing team through the next phase of our journey

This is a leadership role with real visibility, requiring someone who can contribute beyond marketing and operate as a trusted voice within the business.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

You will bring experience from within a partnership or professional services environment and be comfortable operating in a business where relationships, credibility and influence matter.

You are likely to:

Have held a senior marketing or business development role within legal or professional services
Be commercially focused, with a clear understanding of how marketing drives growth
Be confident working with partners and senior stakeholders, able to challenge constructively
Have experience supporting client development and new business initiatives
Be both strategic in your thinking and pragmatic in delivery

An interest in innovation, technology or intellectually driven sectors would complement our work well.

Benefits

We pride ourselves on being small and friendly enough for you to get to know everyone – but big enough to offer you great career prospects. At Appleyard Lees, you won't feel like a number or just another cog in the wheel. We understand everyone is individual and offer a friendly and supportive place to work and learn.

We also offer:

34 hour working week, Monday - Friday
Agile working
A supportive and friendly place to work and learn
Annual salary review
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Holiday Purchase Scheme
Salary Exchange
Life assurance
Healthcare Cash Plan & Wellbeing App
Group Income Protection
Long Service Milestones
Social outings
Vouchers on Christmas, Birthdays and Special Occasions
Charity events

About Appleyard Lees IP LLP

Appleyard Lees is a leading intellectual property law firm, with over seventy patent and trade mark attorneys and litigators.

Who we are, and what we do – but also, how we do it – makes us distinctive.

Our commercially intelligent approach to client service incorporates flexibility and adaptability. We strive to be agile, to respond to specific client requirements in a way that suits them.

We help a broad range of IP owners and creators, including in-house teams, R&D specialists, owner-managers and branding professionals, protect and monetise their intellectual property. We also support clients manage post-grant challenges, should they arise.

Our clients include some of the world’s most exciting innovators, largest companies and household names, with a number of clients obtaining Fortune 500, Fortune Global 2000, FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and Forbes Global 2000 status. Our clients operate across a diverse collection of industries, including chemicals, retail, consumer goods, electronics, software, bio and life sciences, pharmaceuticals, metals and heavy industry, higher education and hospitality, leisure and tourism.

In addition to our catalogue of multinational and multimillion-pound clients, Appleyard Lees is equally proud of the role we have played in the growth of start-up businesses.

The firm recruits the very best professionals who have a passion for their individual areas of specialism and supports staff throughout their career development. Providing expert training, we ensure our staff can deliver outstanding service.

With offices in UK innovation hotspots, we are positioned to give clients expert strategic IP advice in the UK and worldwide.

Industry

Legal & Compliance

Company Size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

Halifax, GB

Year Founded

1852

Website

appleyardlees.com

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