Business Development Executive (Corporate)

The Department

We work with innovative companies and multinational corporates, challengers and disrupters, to navigate the problems and opportunities they encounter throughout their business lifecycle. As a full-service corporate group, we represent companies, founders, management teams, wealth owners, venture capital funds, investors, and universities, each pioneers in their own field. We guide them through the start-up process, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, exits and listings on the public markets, giving insightful board-level and corporate governance advice borne of deep experience, each step of the way. We help our clients navigate not just the present, but the future, anticipating regulatory change, the impact of evolving technologies and the pressures of a dynamic landscape of culture, governance and innovation. Working with clients who simultaneously drive and experience this ecosystem enables us to provide informed strategic advice and market leading solutions, including in such areas as cyber risk, ESG and shareholder activism. From emerging companies to market-leading businesses, our clients compete in fast-moving and innovative industries including software, biotech, digital communications, life sciences, as well as financial services. We also advise some of the leading innovators and operators in more traditional sectors such as real estate, retail and sport. All industries themselves are in the process of dynamic change.

Duties And Responsibilities

As a Business Development Executive, you will be part of a team providing support to our Corporate department. This role will be working as part of a collaborative and high performing team to deliver on a range of BD activities and projects. The ideal candidate will be able to manage the execution of projects from start to finish, provide support on a wide range of initiatives, and be comfortable assisting with (and when required, leading) meetings with Fee Earners. This role will be a critical member of the team, working both within the fee earning departments, as well as regularly effectively collaborating with teams across the wider Business Development Department to achieve a shared goal.

Summary of the role

• Lead the preparation of directory and award submissions for the departments with the appropriate Fee Earners.
• Take responsibility for delivering great content on time.
• Work with the Partners and Fee Earners in the production of credential statements, pitch documents and PowerPoint presentations, marketing material (including brochures and client briefings) and other client communications.
• This role will be responsible for managing design and content, through to producing final documentation for approval.
• Manage event planning.
• This role will be responsible for creating the invitation, finalising the invitation list, to on-the-ground support at the event and all follow-up communications.
• Assist in coordinating Partner and Fee Earner attendance and support material for externally organised conferences and exhibitions.
• Working regularly with HubSpot and Interaction - ensuring that data remains as up-to-date as possible and ensuring the systems are used effectively to support a range of BD-related events and initiatives.
• Prepare documentation for business development meetings including agendas, emails, business development schedules and other documents.
• Supporting more senior members of the BD team in implementing business development activities including: planning, organisation and project management of a wide range of client-focussed events and digital sessions and effective follow-up activity.
• To include liaising with other service functions to arrange any support for events.
• Contribute to the maintenance of the internet and intranet to ensure business development content for your departments is appropriate and up to date.

Contributing to BD

• Work collaboratively with all members of the BD team.
• Bring a "can do" and positive attitude to the role.
• Demonstrate an agile approach to work, flexing your style to be able to provide support on a range of activities to the BD Managers and members of the BD team as and when needed.
• Enhance the reputation of the BD team within the firm for its professionalism and for the strategic and distinctive value it provides.

Skills / Experience

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of a year's experience working as an Executive in a Business Development function in the legal, private client or professional services field. In addition to this, candidates must be able to demonstrate the following:

• Good desktop publishing skills, particularly PowerPoint and Word, and shows strong willingness to develop tech skills.
• Excellent written skills, able to produce good quality first drafts.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage different workstreams and to use initiative wherever possible.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to work to deadlines and stay calm under pressure.
• A strong and effective collaborator who enjoys working with others to achieve a shared goal.
• Demonstrates a positive can-do attitude and shows initiative to support other members of the BD team.
• Proactive and self-sufficient with the ability to take ownership and manage certain tasks with limited guidance.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/ key stakeholders.
• A flexible and can-do approach, willing to provide varied support across various different departments when required.
• A team player who is collaborative and self-motivated.
• Good attention to detail with the ability to multi-task.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Hong Kong and UAE. The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, centred around three increasingly entwined and connected sectors: the Innovation Economy, Private Wealth and Capital, and Real Estate. The firm is known as a disputes powerhouse with a formidable capacity firmwide for dispute resolution. The Mishcon de Reya Group includes consultancy businesses MDR Discover, MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai), MDR ONE, and MDRi (in Hong Kong). The Group also includes MDR Lab, which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership. In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business. We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.