Global Legal Directories & Awards Manager

TN United Kingdom; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

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26.04.2025

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Kennedys is looking for a Global Legal Directories & Awards Manager to join our Business Development & Marketing (BD&M) team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Marketing and Communications, and other members of the Global BD&M Leadership team to develop and deliver a legal directories & awards roadmap for the global function, ensuring we manage the legal directories and our awards submission process across the network.

This is a new role, providing a uniqueopportunity for an ambitious professional to join a dynamic, growing, global law firm, and have real impact on helping to build the reputation of our people and the firm in the market.

Team

Kennedys' Business Development & Marketing team promotes Kennedys' services and supports the firm's global growth ambition and our key clients and markets.

There are four distinct global functions: Pursuits, Clients and Markets, Marketing & Communications and Marketing Technology & Data. These functions support the BD&M activity across five regions – APAC, EMEA, LATAM, UK and the US.

This role reports into the Head of Marketing and Communications and will work closely with each of the global functions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the global legal directories and awards submission programme on behalf of the function, working in close collaboration with our global BD&M colleagues who are responsible for the legal directories and awards submission programme in their region.
• Lead stakeholder engagement across the network to ensure consistency of messaging around the legal directories and awards programme in terms of the value of the programmes. Ensure external messaging and outputs are aligned to our global messaging and strategic priorities.
• Develop policies, processes and guidance to ensure global consistency.
• Develop a global infrastructure to: Track directory and award submission deadlinesStandardise the process to help support our BD&M colleagues and lawyers who work on the legal directories and awards submissions programmeImplement best practices across the programmes using tools, guides and training materialsCapture, share and publish rankings and quotes for use across the firm.
• Provide editorial support, guidance and quality control to other team members.
• Draft legal directory submissions and award submissions where necessary.
• Ensure we are data compliant in sharing information on our clients and matters.
• Manage the commercial relationship with legal directory and awards providers.
• Develop, manage and oversee the firm's award submission process, working in collaboration with the Marketing & Communications team, to build the profile of our people on an individual, team and firmwide basis.

Required experience

• Experience of managing the legal directories programme is essential, with experience of managing an award entries programme being desirable.
• Given the role is supporting our legal directories programme, previous experience working in a business development/marketing function within the professional services industry is essential.
• Strong project management skills required to be able to lead and manage the directories and awards process efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Excellent written communication skills and eye for detail required.
• Strong presentation and communications skills. The ability to interact confidently with stakeholders at all levels and demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills is also a key requirement for this role.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to gain the confidence of partners, senior lawyers and managers and to be seen as a trusted advisor to the business and our colleagues.
• Self-starter with experience of working collaboratively as part of a virtual global team.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to deliver tangible outcomes for the business.
• A curious mind with a strong interest in how we use our legal directory and awards programme to support and influence other key client experience programmes e.g., Pursuits, Client Insights, Client Relationship Management, helping to build the reputation of our people and the firm in the market.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,500 people worldwide across 45 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

At Kennedys, we develop careers in an innovative global environment. s exciting, fast paced and varied and we believe that supporting individual growth and development puts us in the best position to attract and retain talented individuals. Regardless of role or level, everyone has access to virtual learning to help you develop your skills, wherever you are in the world. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.

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