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SalaryOur client - a successful and award winning international Law Firm have a fantastic and unique opportunity for a highly experienced and well educated Senior BD Executive to join the Marketing team and work alongside the Head of Marketing
Duties will include:-
- Support business development activities including pitch, client team, response to RFP and research/competitive intelligence projects. This includes liaising with other firm departments and managing lawyers on this topic.
- 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.
Skills, experience & qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent. Majors in Business Administration, Political Science, English, Finance or other relevant areas of study is preferred.
- Experience in business development within a Law Firm or professional services organization of a minimum of 4 years is essential.
Please in the first instance send CV for an initial chat with our team.
