Senior Business Development Manager - Year Contract - US Law Firm in City of London

Senior Business Development Manager – Year Contract – US Law Firm

Fabulous Opportunity US Law Firm to £110k

• 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. 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 is strongly preferred.

Please in the first instance send CV for an initial chat with our team.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Business Development and Sales

Industries

Marketing Services