Business Development Manager - Law Firm - 3 Month Contract

A leading Law firm is urgently seeking a Business Development professional with professional services experience to provide cover for three months to our Company Commercial and Real Estate teams. Working alongside their existing marketers, this role is to provide incisive and value-adding business development advice and practical support to our key partners as they pursue profitable new business opportunities with both existing clients and targets.

Key responsibilities:

- Project managing and advising on opportunity-specific capability statements, producing high quality documents and coaching/guiding partners on their approach to the opportunity.
- Providing guidance and input to the teams' legal directory submissions.
- Updating both traditional and online collateral to reflect changes in messaging and experience.
- Ensuring the teams' experience, deals and CV databases are kept up-to-date.
- Connecting lawyers to the right colleagues, both in terms of specialist marketing support and to progress with cross-selling opportunities.

Skills and experience:

This role requires solid Business Development experience, ideally within the professional services environment. The ideal candidate will also have degree-level education or professional qualification in business, English, marketing or related discipline.