Business Development Assistant

**About Herbert Smith Freehills**

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.

**The Opportunity**

Our Business development team works alongside our partners and lawyers across our sectors, services and offices to support and develop our relationships with clients, delivering an exceptional service and exploring new avenues through which we can help them meet their business needs. Our brand, marketing and digital team help position us as thought leaders amongst our target markets in the areas we most want to be known for, by creating intuitive and engaging collateral, events and campaigns.

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

As a Business Development Assistant, you will work very closely with colleagues across ASEAN, Greater China and NE Asia, supporting various practice areas including disputes, corporate, finance, projects, employment and competition.

As part of the business development team, you will play a hands-on role in contributing to the firm’s success and helping to achieve its objectives. This could be as one of our business development professionals, coaching partners on relationship building, or building our brand as one of our marketing, design or events professionals.

If you’re a commercially minded individual with a passion for business development and improving the client experience in a professional services environment, you could be just what we’re looking for.

**The role will involve**:

- Assisting the BD teams with content preparation for presentations and marketing materials, as well as liaising with external suppliers;
- Supporting the business development agenda - not limited to brochures, legal directory submissions, CVs, website profiles, newsletters, social media etc.;
- Ensuring that proposals are standardized in terms of HSF format and proofread contents for pitching and other presentations;
- Assisting in and liaising with external providers as well as internally, on event preparation, logistics and other on-ground support;
- Creating and circulating weekly BD updates;
- Maintaining marketing contact lists in the firm’s CRM database (Interaction);
- Helping to maintain data in the firm's credentials database (Foundation);
- Helping to maintain filing systems and logs that support efficient information management for the teams;
- Monitoring and sharing news updates and activities of clients, peers and the market;
- Dealing with other ad hoc tasks and projects from BD teams.

**To be successful in this role, you should have the below skills, experience & qualification**:

- An international outlook and collaborative mindset
- Fluent in Thai and English (written and spoken)
- Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Excellent team worker
- Initiative to solve problems and a 'can do' attitude
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills - ability to manage own quality of work and meet deadlines.
- Strong attention to detail
- Self-motivated and proactive.
- University degree or other relevant qualification
- At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work._
- We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life._

**Team**

Business Development

**Working Pattern**

Full time

**Location**

Bangkok

**Contract type**

Permanent Contract

**Diversity & Inclusion**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide var