Marketing & BD Manager

Overview of role

Join Walkers Professional Services (WPS) – shape the future with an industry leader

Walkers Professional Services (WPS) is a dynamic, fast-growing provider of corporate, fiduciary and regulatory services to leading private equity firms, hedge funds, CLO managers, trusts, and global financial institutions.  With over 400 professionals across eight locations globally, we combine the strength of private equity backing with Walkers’ trusted reputation to deliver seamless, tech-enabled solutions that help businesses to thrive and meet responsibilities with confidence.

As we invest in cutting-edge technology and expand our global footprint, we offer ambitious professionals the opportunity to achieve new career heights and make a real impact.

Why Join WPS?

If you thrive in dynamic environments and want to work with industry leaders, you’ll love what we offer:

• A growth platform – backed by strategic long-term co-investment from Vitruvian Partners and Walkers law firm, accelerating innovation and opportunity.

• Blue-chip client base – work with the best on high-impact, cross-border projects with leading global institutions.

• Global reach, deep local expertise – collaborate across major investment hubs worldwide.

• Empowered culture – a “grown-up” environment that values clarity, collaboration, and commerciality.

Provide day-to-day production and coordination support to WPS's global Marketing & Business Development teams, delivering accurate, polished and timely proposals, presentations, campaign materials, content, web updates, event support and related outputs.

The Marketing & Business Development Executive will manage assigned requests from briefing through to completion, maintain reliable trackers and content libraries, and help create repeatable templates and processes. The role will support stakeholders across WPS markets and service lines from the Krakow-based production capability.

The position requires a proactive and detail-focused professional who combines strong writing and presentation skills with disciplined coordination, sound judgement and a commitment to outstanding internal and client service.

• Tech-enabled and client centred mindset – leverage technology to build smarter, more efficient service models.

Duties, Responsibilities & Person Specification

Proposals, Presentations and Collateral

• Prepare and produce high-quality pitches, proposals, RFP responses, capability statements, credentials and other client-facing materials using approved WPS templates and content.
• Design, refine and format presentations for client meetings, internal briefings, seminars, conferences and other business development activity.
• Apply careful quality assurance to all work, checking content, formatting, facts, links, spelling, consistency and version control before submission for review.
• Maintain accurate and organised libraries of approved templates, biographies, credentials, service descriptions, case studies, images and completed materials.

Campaigns, Content and Digital Marketing

• Draft, edit and proofread clear marketing copy, short-form communications, social media content, campaign materials and web content in line with approved messaging and brand standards.
• Support campaigns by coordinating briefs, content, assets, stakeholder inputs, approvals, distribution lists, schedules and completion tracking.
• Process website and digital-content updates, ensuring content is accurate, current, approved and presented consistently.
• Create and maintain campaign and content trackers and support activity reporting where required.

Events and Market Activity

• Provide coordination and administration for conferences, client events, webinars, roundtables and sponsorship activity.
• Support research, invitations, attendee lists, collateral, briefing packs, logistics trackers and post-event follow-up materials.
• Coordinate assigned event actions through to completion and highlight dependencies or risks promptly.

Research, CRM and Information Management

• Conduct targeted client, market and competitor research to support proposals, campaigns, targeting activity and content development.
• Support CRM and mailing-list administration, including data checking, list preparation, activity capture and campaign reporting where required.
• Maintain accurate trackers for requests, campaigns, events, content and deliverables.
• Ensure records, source materials and final outputs are stored consistently and can be retrieved easily.

Workflow Coordination and Continuous Improvement

• Coordinate requests from regional and global teams, clarify requirements, maintain communication and take ownership of assigned actions from briefing through to completion.
• Manage multiple assignments and deadlines, keeping the Marketing & Business Development Manager informed of workload, dependencies and delivery risks.
• Help develop and improve standard templates, checklists and repeatable processes to increase speed, consistency and reuse.
• Work collaboratively with Krakow colleagues and provide flexible support across priorities during periods of peak demand.
• Undertake other related Marketing & Business Development responsibilities reasonably required to support the growth and evolving needs of WPS.

Education, Skills & Experience

To perform this job successfully, the individual must combine strong technical delivery, stakeholder management and organisational capability. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities considered necessary to achieve the base standard required.

Expertise

• Preparation and formatting of professional proposals, presentations and marketing collateral.
• Strong written communication, editing and proofreading capability.
• Campaign, content, digital and event coordination.
• Excellent attention to accuracy, consistency, version control and visual presentation.
• Ability to organise multiple assignments and meet tight deadlines.
• Advanced Microsoft Word and PowerPoint capability, with proficiency in Excel.
• Familiarity with CRM, web-content, email-marketing, workflow or project-management systems is advantageous.
• Clear and professional stakeholder communication.
• Demonstrates technological curiosity, adaptability and a commitment to embracing new tools and digitally enabled ways of working.
• Uses technology and data to improve processes, decision-making and service delivery.

Educational Qualifications and Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree from a recognised institution preferred.
• Marketing, Communications, Business, Economics, Law or related discipline advantageous.
• Relevant experience in marketing, business development, communications, professional services, consultancy or a comparable deadline-driven environment.
• Experience supporting proposals, campaigns, events, digital content, social media or marketing collateral preferred.
• Professional services, financial services, legal services, consulting or related sector experience advantageous.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Personal Qualities

• Proactive, responsive and dependable.
• Exceptional attention to detail, quality and presentation.
• Highly organised, with a strong sense of ownership and follow-through.
• Collaborative, adaptable and receptive to feedback.
• Clear and professional communicator.
• Client- and service-oriented.
• Calm under pressure and able to manage competing priorities.
• Curious and committed to continuous learning and improvement.
• High level of professionalism, integrity and sound judgement.

We’re hiring

Join a team that’s redefining fiduciary and corporate services. If you’re ambitious, adaptable and ready to make a difference, WPS could be the right place for you. Competitive compensation included.