Overview

Linklaters is a global law firm, with 31 offices in 21 countries worldwide. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

About the role

Your role will be to lead and embed a data-driven culture within Business Development and Marketing (BDM) by implementing, governing and continuously improving the data strategy in line with Linklaters’ strategic ambitions. You will drive data integrity, compliance, and innovation by defining priority data sets, championing data-informed decision making, and leading quality, lineage, and governance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed a data-driven culture across the BDM function.
• Implement, govern, and continuously improve the BDM data strategy, ensuring alignment with the firm’s strategic priorities.
• Champion data-informed decision making in day-to-day activities and strategic planning.
• Prioritise and define key BDM data sets to drive business development success.
• Lead initiatives to improve data quality, ensuring data integrity, compliance, and reliability.
• Map and monitor data lineage to ensure clarity, traceability, and audit readiness.
• Navigate and influence a complex stakeholder landscape, gaining buy-in for innovative data initiatives.
• Support BDM data governance, privacy, and security standards, safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining stakeholder trust.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data management and analytics, ideally gained within professional services, legal, or complex B2B environments.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into effective data and analytics solutions, particularly for business development, marketing, and client insights.
• Track record of data governance and quality assurance in regulated environments.
• Expertise in data quality frameworks, remediation strategies, and managing large, complex data sets.
• Skilled in analytics techniques, including descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive approaches.
• Comfortable working in transformative or greenfield settings, providing clarity, structure, and momentum.
• Strong collaborative skills and ability to foster a data-driven culture across team

Location

This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.

Benefits

Our benefits include a range designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Health & Wellbeing
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
  • Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
• Finance
  • Pension and flexible savings options
  • Income protection and life assurance
  • Mortgage advice and will-writing services
• Family & Lifestyle
  • Electric car and cycle to work schemes
  • Emergency family care
  • Additional holiday/birthday leave
  • Maternity/paternity shared parental leave
  • Travel insurance and season ticket loan

We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).