Business Development and Marketing Specialist

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa

• Job Identification 3400
• Job Category Business Operations
• Posting Date 04/29/2026, 02:22 PM
• Locations 30 Jellicoe Avenue, Johannesburg, 2196, ZA
• Job Schedule Full time

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 and Marketing Specialist 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, with an expectation of a minimum of 3 days a week in the office.

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

• Extensive prior business development or marketing experience working across the full marketing mix within a legal or professional services environment.
• Experience in event coordination with a proven track record of successfully planning, executing and following up events.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time, with potentially conflicting priorities.
• Exceptional attention to detail to be able to create accurate and engaging documents such as capability statements, client brochures or legal directory submissions.
• Proven administrative skills and ability to manage own workload and timelines.
• Experience in CRM systems or ability to pick this up quickly.

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.