Matthew Phillips Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Chambers and Partners is the market leader in independent legal research and publishing. We have more researchers and expert editors than any other legal research team with over 220+ people working full time to gather information, data and intelligence. We conduct research into the strengths and reputations of the leading law firms through thousands of in-depth interviews and surveys to recommend the world’s best lawyers in over 190 countries.• Responsibility and leadership of Commercial operations across the Chambers brand.• Managing key account relationships and identifying new business opportunities• Continued creation and implementation of commercial strategies, programs and developments • Designing and implementing strategies and ideas for international growth • Continuous performance monitoring and report building

Lexology is an innovative, web-based service that provides company law departments and law firms with a depth of free practical know-how that would be impossible to produce internally. By collaborating with over 470 of the world's leading commercial law firms, Lexology is able to deliver fully tailored intelligence to the desktops of business lawyers worldwide on a daily basis.• Responsible for launching new services and products across International jurisdictions, presenting and pitching to Senior level decision makers within international corporations and Law firms.• Responsible for continued business development throughout the Lexology and Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Newsstand content distribution products • Management responsibility for key sales team, with sales support, guidance, direction and leadership.• Direct report to CEO and shareholders.• Responsible for monthly revenue streams and continued brand development• Heavy sales process based on a consultative approach, tailoring individual packages for individual clients.

• Responsible for continued business development throughout the Legal Week brand• Responsible for creating and implementing weekly features across both print and online verticals• Heavy account management using a consultative sales approach, tailoring individual packages for new and existing clients• Management responsibility across multiple sales teams, including print, digital and event teams • Responsible for maximising revenues over multiple platforms via multiple sales teams• Driving and maintaining close working relationships with editorial teams, Publishers, Commercial Directors, Group events Directors, as well as key figures throughout Incisive Media• Analysing the business environment to ensure the brand maintains its competitive vitality• Responsible for all Display Online activity across legalweek.com including all rich media opportunities

Early employee of this PPA award winning publication - Legal Week. My responsibilities covered various areas including Display advertising sales, online sales, supplement sales and heavy feature sales.I held sole responsibility for the monthly stand alone publication - Legal IT and I was responsible for all commercial aspects of this product. Including growing the magazine in terms of circulation and revenue.

Responsible for multiple high revenue classified sections, including Legal notices and dating classifieds. Prepared text, size, layout and placements of all adverts within my sections and consistently exceeded targets. Sold adverts across the main paper and the weekend magazines.