Posted:
12/6/2024, 2:44:34 AM
Location(s):
London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Growth & Marketing
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Help us build relationships with our dream clients — and yours. We are seeking an organised and flexible team player to work across a diverse portfolio of activities, including business development, marketing and executive support. The ideal candidate will be organised, flexible and able to think on their feet. You will be juggling a range of proposals, requests, and inbound leads, helping to ensure teams working across business development and marketing know what they need to be doing and by when.
This is a rare opportunity to join a growing team and work to develop relationships with a client base that spans across nonprofit, advocacy, corporate, and political sectors. If you want to help drive real change and learn how to support some of the biggest organisations in the world — from UNICEF to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Plan International, Save The Children or the ONE Campaign — this might be the position for you.
Day to day you will collaborate closely with our leadership team & Executive Director to respond to inbound enquiries, juggle new business opportunities and help develop and manage a sales pipeline and marketing materials such as blog posts, reports and events. You will work across the agency with cross-discipline teams, providing structure and logistical support for proposals and contracts, supporting the team proactively with scheduling for internal and external meetings and collaborating with teams to prepare for pitches and presentations.
Business Development
Manage the business development process - including proposal development, pitches, inbound leads and outbound efforts:
Marketing, PR & Contact Management
Help build, manage, and continually develop a sales pipeline to achieve new business targets:
Executive Support
Support the leadership team and the Executive Director in building relationships through the following:
Blue State is the purpose-driven creative and tech agency for brands and causes looking to inspire people to take action and drive create real change. With clients including the UNHCR, Google, Amnesty International, UNICEF, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) and Oxfam, Blue State cultivates and mobilises communities, raises money and influences policy, builds platforms, and transforms how organisations engage their most important people. Led by some of the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is a part of WPP and has more than 150 employees in London and the US.
The London team is formed of 20+ individuals, working across accounts and project management, creative & design, strategy & insights and media. We are a group of people motivated to create change in the world, working together to drive progress for the things we care about.
The Partnerships team drives Blue State’s growth. We are the face of Blue State to prospective clients. We build new and deepen existing client relationships. We help prospects see opportunities more clearly, and we help Blue State understand the challenges our prospects face. We inspire teams to find solutions to complex business challenges. And we work with our colleagues to persuasively articulate creative, strategic, and technical solutions to executives and practitioners alike.
We approach in-office working with a hybrid model, with presence in our Old Street office required at least two days per week (Usually Tuesday and a minimum of one other day).
At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities — women, people of colour, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between — to apply. Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.
Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability - including the use of AI tools throughout the interview process, which we review on a case by case basis - please contact us at [email protected] with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.
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Website: https://www.bluestate.co/
Headquarter Location: New York, New York, United States
Employee Count: 251-500
Year Founded: 2004
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Advertising ⋅ Digital Media ⋅ Marketing ⋅ Public Relations ⋅ Social