Bde040624 - Business Development Executive

The Role

We are looking for an energetic, organised and enthusiastic Business Development Executive to join us in a newly created role within the Business Development arm of a recently restructured Marketing and Business Development team.

Based in our Putney office, but with the opportunity to work across all of our three offices, the role will provide a high degree of visibility for the successful candidate and will involve working closely and collaboratively with senior stakeholders and lawyers across the firm.

The successful candidate will have some marketing and/or Business Development experience ideally gained within a professional services firm, although that is not essential.

The role would be suitable for an experience BD Assistant, looking to step up, or an existing BD Executive who is looking for a new challenge in a specialist Business Development role at a firm where they can work across a number of key groups, helping shape their growth.

The role will provide a high degree of visibility for the successful candidate and will involve working very closely and collaboratively with lawyers across the firm.

This role will work closely with the head of BD to deliver the firm’s BD activity and the team’s goals and objectives. This may involve elements of cross over and liaison with colleagues specialising in marketing activity. Duties will include but are not limited to:

• Working closely with departments across the firm to implement BD and client/ referrer relationship management best practice activities, and provide guidance on effective marketing and BD to reach identified target audiences.
• Working with the Senior BD Executive and Head of BD to support relevant departments and teams across the firm on tenders and work winning opportunities, helping create and ensure delivery and seeking feedback on outcomes.
• Being a link between departments, spotting opportunities and facilitating progress around cross departmental and team collaboration.
• Work closely with the head of BD to support on routine and opportunity focused firm-wide BD initiatives and research projects aimed at targeting clients and providing an infrastructure for the firm to win work.
• Act as a gateway between the lawyers and the wider marketing and Business Development team, helping the firm understand effective marketing and Business Development is and who in the team supports on what.
• To support on targeted events and mailings where needed.

Technical skills and expertise

• Experience working in a Business Development and marketing department, preferably within professional services.
• Experience working on client facing proposal documents and processes/ work winning opportunities with clients.
• Energy and an appetite for working with a range of stakeholders in different areas of the business.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Comfort with challenge, being considered ‘the expert’ on BD and a point person to stakeholders across different levels of seniority around best practice and skills.
• A team player, with an interest in all areas of marketing and Business Development.
• Ambition, to come into a newly created team and role and make a positive impact.

Russell-Cooke is a UK Top 100 law firm with around 250 highly-regarded specialist lawyers based across our three offices in London. We work for a mix of commercial, not-for-profit and private clients.

We have an impressive breadth of expertise ranging from commercial transactions through private wealth to expertise in children’s services and financial crime. We are top ranked in Chambers and Legal 500 and have been named by The Times in their list of best Law Firms 2024.  

Our current strategic plan anticipates that our growth will continue in a consistent upward trajectory. In order to meet our stretching growth aspirations we recently undertook a root and branch review of our BD requirements and capability.  We have identified a need for greater BD capability and have created a number of new positions to meet that need.  A new Director of Marketing and Business Development was put in place in October 2023 and Head of BD in January 2024. We are now recruiting into the Business Development team to support progress already made in focusing the departments across the firm more on BD as a routine consideration in how they plan and win their business. The head of BD also takes responsibility for our events provision. 

There is a requirement to work across our 3 offices in Holborn, Putney and Kingston as required with this role, a minimum of 3 days a week.

For the right candidate there will be an opportunity for advancement in the firm.

We are an equal opportunities employer.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply please follow the link on the portal.

We welcome direct applications. If you would like any further information about the firm please contact a member of the HR team.

We have a diverse workforce and aim to attract high calibre applicants that reflect the demography of our geographical location and client base. Individuals will be employed solely on merit and the requirement of the position. No applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, race, marital status, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender Identity or religion. Reasonable adjustments will be made to eliminate or reduce disadvantage.