Blue Legal are partnered with a leading award winning national law firm who are recruiting for a Marketing & Business Development Executive to support their London office. The successful candidate will have some marketing and/or business development experience ideally gained within a law firm or professional services firm. The role would be suitable for an experienced BD Assistant, looking to step up, or an existing BD Executive who is looking for a new challenge in a specialist business development role at a firm where they can work across a number of key departments, helping shape their growth.

The Responsibilities:

• Working closely with departments across the firm to implement BD and client/ referrer relationship management best practice activities, and provide guidance on effective marketing and BD to reach identified target audiences.
• Working with the BD Manager and Head of BD to support relevant departments and teams across the firm on tenders and work winning opportunities, helping create and ensure delivery and seeking feedback on outcomes.
• Being a link between departments, spotting opportunities and facilitating progress around cross departmental and team collaboration.
• Support on routine and opportunity focused firm-wide BD initiatives and projects for specific departments and involving collaboration with multiple departments at once.
• Lead routine and opportunistic/ pro-active research projects, aimed at targeting clients and providing an infrastructure for the firm and individuals/ teams to win work.
• Acting as a gateway between the lawyers and the wider marketing and business development team, helping the firm understand effective marketing and business development is and who in the team supports on what.
• To support on targeted events and mailings where needed, focused on reaching the right audiences in the right way and on event execution geared towards winning work.

The Candidate:

• Strong academic background with at least two years’ business/client development experience in professional services
• Experience working in or with a business development and marketing department, preferably within professional services.
• Experience working on client facing documents, ideally proposals and work winning opportunities with clients.
• Energy and an appetite for working with a range of stakeholders in different areas of the business.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Comfort with challenge, working towards being considered ‘the expert’ on BD and a point person to stakeholders across different levels of seniority around best practice and skills.
• A team player, with an interest in all areas of marketing and business development.
• Ambition, to come into a relatively new team and make a positive impact.

Please note: Due to the specific sectors we work in, only candidates with valid work experience in a Law Firm, Accountancy Firm, Management Consultancy, Property/Construction Firm, Financial Services Firm or a high profile relevant Association or Agency will be considered. We regret that our clients will not accept applications outside of these areas.