Careers

Want to work for a specialist legal communications consultancy in the heart of legal London?

Byfield seeks communications specialists with curious and creative minds that are passionate about the business of law, and who understand the media. Our team is trained to identify and exploit the cutting-edge developments in law and the legal ecosystem, ensuring the right results for our clients.

There is the opportunity to further your career by joining our team and help us expand the agency further at this exciting time of change and development.

Our current vacancies

If you would like to join an entrepreneurial, specialist communications consultancy where you get to work for the leading law firms across legal PR, reputation management and litigation PR, then you should consider Byfield as a market leader in our field.

Job Description for Digital Manager/ Executive

About Byfield Consultancy

Byfield is a market leading communications consultancy to the legal sector. We advise leading law firms and legal sector businesses on building and protecting their brands across a range of PR and communications activities.

An exciting opportunity has come up for a digital executive / manager (depending on experience) to join the team to develop Byfield’s digital assets and support key clients’ digital activity. We are looking for someone who is creative, full of new ideas, a self-starter and excited to join an entrepreneurial business.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and develop Byfield’s social media assets across key platforms
Assist in the development of Byfield’s digital services
Maintain strong SEO for the Byfield brand
Assist on client accounts to develop and execute digital strategies and campaigns for clients
Provide advice on digital, social and content to Byfield account teams for benefit of clients
Work with external suppliers to deliver projects for clients
Work with senior management to develop new opportunities for Byfield within the legal digital, content and social space
Play a key part in new business pitches and proposals that have a digital and content element
Equip colleagues with digital, social and content skills

Skills Required / Experience

A minimum of two years’ experience in digital comms and marketing, either in-house or agency
Knowledge of content marketing, including repurposing content and optimising for search engines
Some knowledge of digital analytics, SEO and content management systems
Experience in promoting campaigns across the key social media platforms
Strong communication and writing skills, including producing content for different channels
Confident self-starter – able to identify and seize opportunities, and build trust with key internal and external stakeholders
Flexible, creative problem solver with strong presentation and interpersonal skills

Benefits include

Competitive salary dependent upon experience
Company pension scheme
Hybrid working (minimum two days in office per week)
Private healthcare scheme
Up to 6 additional days holiday per year on top of contractual holiday entitlement of 25 days + bank holidays
Yearly bonus scheme

To apply for the role please send a cover letter and a copy of your CV to: Amanda.Cooper@byfieldconsultancy.com

Job Description for Senior Account Executive

About Byfield Consultancy

Byfield is the market leading communications consultancy providing reputation counsel across the legal sector, including to major law firms, legal tech providers and industry bodies within the profession. Our talented team of 19 consultants is passionate about current affairs and advises clients across Corporate Communications, Crisis PR and Litigation PR. We work with some of the biggest names in the legal sector and on the important issues that impact business, society and the economy, and the law and legal services. Ultimately, we work with our clients to promote and protect their businesses, market perception and value.

We have ambitious growth plans as evidenced by the significant work we are winning from major brands and we have an exciting opportunity for an Account Executive to join our team. We are looking for someone who is a highly creative, full of new ideas, a self-starter who likes to take the initiative and someone who is excited to join an entrepreneurial business where they can play a role in our growth story.

You will have the opportunity to work with, and learn from, some of the most talented and dynamic people in professional services communications. We are tight-knit, supportive and collegiate team and we enjoy helping each other succeed.

The role

We are looking for someone who can:

Write press releases, news stories, articles, case studies and product pieces
Pitch press releases and feature ideas by phone or email to national, regional and trade journalists, across print, broadcast and online, to interest them in covering clients’ stories. Including handling more challenging subject matters
Develop journalist contacts across key trade, national and broadcast media for clients Maintain regular client interaction, as a key day-to-day liaison, including developing editorial themes with lawyers and regular liaison with clients’ Marketing/Comms teams
Provide support on the management of client accounts
Arrange interviews and editorial meetings with key journalists for clients’ spokespeople
Monitor media coverage and report results to the wider team and clients
Deliver analytics reports on social media, reporting on traffic, engagement and follower figures
Be a reliable point of contact for clients, and a trusted source of information
Be social media-savvy and understand the role of social media in reputation management
Immerse themselves in the team and be able to brainstorm fresh ideas for PR campaigns
Provide support to the Senior Management Team, as required in terms of research for new business opportunities/pitches and providing support on Byfield marketing initiatives, for example assisting with the quarterly dinners and new business mailings

Key skills

Excellent written and spoken English. We need you to be hot on spelling, grammar and proof-reading, as well as have a creative flair for producing engaging copy.
Presentation skills: From communicating ideas to your team to presenting stories to journalists, we need someone who can organise information in a succinct and interesting way to get people’s attention.
Strong interpersonal skills: Whether it’s over the phone, by email or in person, PR is all about people, so we need you to be approachable, friendly and empathetic, and be able to relate to people on different levels within the agency, with clients and with the media.
Excellent telephone manner: You will spend a lot of your time pitching stories to journalists, so you need to have the confidence to pick up the phone and speak to them and maintain a positive, friendly and upbeat tone.
Time-keeping: You will often be working to tight media deadlines as well as meeting the demands and pressures of agency life, so we need someone who can work quickly and efficiently, without compromising on quality.

Relevant experience

Minimum one year of prior experience working in a PR agency, press office or fast-paced media environment.

Qualifications

A relevant undergraduate degree such as PR, law, journalism or English Literature would be beneficial but not essential.

Benefits package

Leave benefits:

25 days annual leave (plus UK Bank holidays)
FREE half day leave per month (equivalent to 6 days extra leave per year)
Office closure during Christmas and the New year, without deduction of annual leave.

This could equate to up to 36 days off each year plus bank holidays

Other benefits: