Sector Lead- Consumer

Your Role

As the Sector Lead for the Consumer Sector reporting into the Director of Strategic Growth for the Corporate and Institutions audience, you will have responsibility for creating and leading on the delivery of a Consumer Sector growth strategy for our Corporates and Institutions Audience.

In addition, you will have a significant client facing role leading a sector group made up of colleagues from across the business to deliver growth by winning more work from new sector clients, embedding existing sector client relationships leading to deeper service line penetration and developing our sector networks, connections and partnerships.

Our focus is to ensure we secure the right candidate for the role, therefore the successful candidate could be either be a Senior Associate or Partner level hire, depending on the individual. A full role profile is available upon request.

What You'll Be Doing

Setting a dynamic growth strategy for the Consumer Sector and leading a multi – disciplinary sector team of lawyers and BD professionals to deliver that strategy

Building Irwin Mitchell’s profile in the Consumer Sector

Sharing industry insights and working with people from across the group to support, strengthen and develop our Consumer Sector proposition

Identifying targets and developing opportunities to win new sector clients and expand existing client relationships

Informing M&A and lateral growth strategies to ensure we have the right skill set to deliver the Consumer Sector growth strategy

What We're Looking For

An experienced client-facing lawyer

Strategic business builder with an ambitious and innovative mind set.

Strong leadership and motivational skills.

Exceptional insight and network within the relevant sector.

Current experience of driving sales with new and established clients in the applicable sector group.

In depth knowledge of the industry sector with a strong network in the relevant sector space.

Proactive in the market to develop and build opportunities to attract and win new clients.

What we can offer you

25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy additional leave

Two fundraising days in a year to give back to the community (fully paid!)

Westfield Health membership, offering discounted leisure and travel and refunds on medical services

These benefits are our Senior Associate benefits, our Partner level benefits to be discussed on an individual basis.

We also offer a huge number of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace as well as flexible working options to ensure that you are fully supported to work the way that best suits you. Our social responsibility programme is fundamental to who we are. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish. We have a range of groups to celebrate our people across sexuality, disability, age, gender and culture. 

We welcome applications from all diversity groups and backgrounds. We’re committed to enabling everyone to thrive and understanding and celebrating our differences is a key part of that. We’re proud of our work on the Disability Confident scheme, on the Race At Work Charter and as Stonewall Diversity Champions. We also have a range of networks for LGBT+, disability, generations, gender, social mobility, ethnicity, faith and culture to celebrate our people and to enable everyone to thrive.