Legal Business Development Manager – International Law Firm – Brand New Role
Type: general
Our client – a successful and award winning international law firm have a fantastic and unique opportunity for a highly experienced and well educated BD Manager to join the Marketing team and be the lead for the entire Marketing/BD function.
Duties will include:-
Lead on traditional business development activities including pitch, client team, response to RFP and research/competitive intelligence projects. This includes liaising with other firm departments (e.g., Pricing, Legal Project Management, Information Services, Office of General Counsel, Library/Knowledge Management, etc.).
Pitch and RFP activity is a significant component of the role. Candidates must be comfortable working directly with lawyers to produce responsive documents, including leveraging off-the-shelf/precedent materials and preparing thoughtful draft language for lawyer review.
In support of lawyer pitch activity, candidates must have experience coaching lawyers on key themes, talking points, organization/structure of meetings, and analysis of competitors as necessary.
Lead on practice and industry meetings focused on business development. Responsibilities include preparing meeting agendas, keeping track of action items, proactively encouraging/reminding lawyers of their to-dos, and maintaining trackers for business development activities.
Support overall maintenance of marketing collateral and databases/systems. This includes learning our processes for content management and proactively engaging with lawyers about the status of their matter pipelines.
Support overall maintenance of marketing activity databases, including by reporting substantive notes and outcomes.
Collaborate with the events function to develop, as needed, highly targeted mailing lists for specific uses.
Participate, contribute to and/or take a lead role in other departmental and team discussions.
Take an active role in developing “trusted advisor” relationships with partners and counsel in London and beyond.
Skills, experience & qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.
At least 8 years’ experience in business development within a law firm or professional services organization is strongly preferred.
Please in the first instance send CV for an initial chat with our team.
