Business Development Manager – Restructuring & Insolvency (12m FTC) in London

About Marketing & Business Development (MBD): MBD is a dynamic global team of business development specialists, research analysts, brand, marketing and communications experts. Working collaboratively, we shape the firm's client strategy, analyse complex business issues, identify opportunities, develop compelling proposals and create content and marketing campaigns that define our digital presence. Together, we define the client experience and shape the perception of Freshfields around the globe.

About our Restructuring & Insolvency practice (R&I): We are a leading restructuring firm. This reputation has been built over decades by advising on many of the biggest, most complex and most high-profile cross-border restructurings in the market. Our team has a wealth of experience advising stressed and distressed corporates — and their stakeholders — on credit solutions, corporate restructuring and insolvency options. We help boards of directors steer corporates through troubled waters, and advise global investment funds, asset managers, banks, bondholders and other lenders on debt and corporate restructurings.

About the role: We are looking for a driven and commercially minded business development professional to join our R&I practice. You will bring a strong understanding of the restructuring and insolvency market, a proactive mindset, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.

Key requirements:

• Educated to degree level, with a strong understanding of the restructuring and insolvency market — whether from a legal, accountancy, financial or consultancy background.
• Strong emotional intelligence, independent thinking and mature professional judgment, with the ability to operate with confidence and discretion.
• Accountable and diligent, with the ability to take ownership of a broad spectrum of business development activity and see it through to completion.
• Self-starting and resilient, with the drive to push matters forward to their conclusion — including, where necessary, outside normal working hours.
• Skilled at working sensitively alongside busy fee earners, managing competing priorities to deliver high-quality output on time.
• Excellent teamworking and collaboration skills, with the confidence to build strong relationships at all levels of seniority, both internally and with clients.
• An ideas-driven approach, with enthusiasm for bringing fresh thinking to protect and enhance the team's reputation in the market.
• Strong project management and multi-tasking skills, with a track record of managing multiple deadlines, adapting to changing priorities and performing well under pressure.
• Excellent written, presentation and oral communication skills, with a high standard of grammar and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working flexibly in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines and high expectations.
• Natural curiosity and a genuine enthusiasm to grow into a rounded business development practitioner, specialising in R&I.

Inclusion: Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing. Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case by case basis and take a number of factors into account (eg the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence). You would have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.