Senior Business Development Manager

We are excited to be hiring a Senior Business Development Manager into our national Marketing team. The role is to lead, inspire and shape the future of Business Development. We're looking for an experienced Business Development Manager to play a key leadership role in delivering our growth ambitions.

Reporting to the Head of Business Development, you'll provide strategic support to high-growth sectors and service teams, helping partners and lawyers win, retain and develop client relationships. You'll also help drive the evolution of our BD function, championing innovation, technology and AI to create a future-ready team. This role can be based out of any of our offices, except London.

The person we are looking for is a commercially minded BD professional with proven experience in an international professional services environment. A confident leader and trusted adviser, you thrive on building relationships, influencing stakeholders and delivering results.

You will bring:

• Significant business development and marketing experience.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent commercial awareness and understanding of client needs.
• The ability to manage strategic, complex workloads and multiple priorities.
• Outstanding communication, influencing and relationship building skills.
• A passion for innovation, including the use of technology and AI to transform how BD support is delivered.
• A collaborative approach and the drive to continuously improve how teams work and succeed.

The activities include:

• Leading, coaching and developing members of the BD team across multiple offices, fostering a collaborative, high-performing culture.
• Delivering strategic BD and marketing support aligned to sector and firm-wide growth plans.
• Partnering with lawyers and business leaders to identify opportunities, strengthen client relationships and support business growth.
• Driving best practice, innovation and consistency across BD activities, campaigns and projects.
• Championing technology, automation and AI-driven solutions to improve efficiency and service delivery.
• Managing complex projects, budgets and firm-wide initiatives, ensuring successful delivery against objectives and KPIs.
• Building strong internal and external networks to enhance market profile, generate opportunities and share best practice.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The benefits include a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits.

If we offer you a role, we will conduct comprehensive pre-employment screening. This screening will include, but is not limited to, a basic DBS, verification of your right to work, a three year employment history and a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability for the role.

Here at Mills & Reeve, we embrace the use of technology and AI and we recognise that candidates may use AI tools to support their applications. As a regulated industry, we expect candidates to use such tools responsibly, honestly and in a manner that allows us to make a fair and accurate assessment of their individual skills, experience and suitability for the role.

Mills & Reeve is centred on achieving more for clients, their businesses and the wider communities we serve. Our clients and their industries benefit from our knowledge and learning, and receive consistent experiences with no surprises. We build personal relationships, with advice individually tailored to individual need.

By joining Mills & Reeve, you'll have the chance to build your skills and experience within a firm that's not only ranked in the top 50 UK law firms, but also one that truly values their people. We're also ranked in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, and have been awarded Platinum Investors in People.

Our values are the principles that help us fulfil our purpose:

• We're ambitious - We aim high, we embrace new ideas and we're passionate about our work.
• We're open - We communicate openly and honestly to build trust, and we do what's right.
• We care - We're committed to each other, our clients, our communities and the planet.
• We collaborate - We're easy to work with, we offer help willingly and we get things done – together.

Everyone at Mills & Reeve brings a unique perspective and ideas to the team and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive. We're committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment, are happy to consider flexible working arrangements, and want to achieve the right balance for both our people and the firm.

To find out more about our diversity and inclusion work, visit our website.