Job Description

Business Development Executive

Johannesburg

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.


Our people are our success, and we work as one team.



We are recruiting a Business Development Executive to support in delivering key and exciting projects and manage the day-to-day activities of the regional marketing and business development plans.



This role will be based at our Johannesburg office, and our standard working hours are 8:30am-5.00pm, however as an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:


Minimum 2 years prior marketing experience working across the full marketing mix (preferably within a multinational organisation) including running events, creating and developing marketing collateral and supporting brand and reputation activity. Experience in event coordination with a proven track record of successfully planning, executing and following up events Previous business development experience including collating client and target information, and supporting the team on responding to bid opportunities. Experience of professional services marketing desirable but not essential. Experience in CRM systems preferrable.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.


We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.



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