Job: Business Development Professional

Business Development Manager, 50-100K

Times are changing in the legal profession and our client is very excited to be embracing that challenge! In this highly competitive and evolving market our Business Development team have a crucial role to play helping the firm meet its business objectives which includes ambitious growth plans.

Our client’s team of business development professionals have worked hard to develop a strong reputation within the business and work closely with our partners offering strategic advice on how to achieve our growth plans through a variety of business development activities with both existing and target clients.  

An opportunity has now arisen for a strong business development manager to join our team working directly with the Business Development Director and Client Development Manager.

The role offers an opportunity for you to take responsibility for driving the business development strategy, working with partners to achieve their business plans, ensuring that we retain business and develop new leads.  

Your role will see you supporting our highly regarded client development programme providing coaching and support to our client partners helping them to identify and exploit new opportunities. You will also work closing with the bids team providing essential input into the tender process, supporting the partners through the pitch process. In addition, you will be responsible for some key business development initiatives, as well as identifying new and innovative ways in which we can ensure our ambitious aims are achieved.  

This is a new and exciting role and the successful candidate has a real opportunity to shape the future of our business. You must have significant experience as a business development manager, preferably within a law firm, but a strong understanding of the partnership environment is essential.

You will be commercially astute, have strong coaching skills and be able to influence at all levels. It is also important that you are able to build and maintain strong working relationships.

This role is likely to be very project driven and you must therefore have strong project management skills. There is the potential for this role to be both internally and externally facing so you must be credible in front of internal and external clients.

For further details on this particular high profile job, please contact Jonny Scott-Slater 01872 274227

Post your CV to post@cornwallexective.co.uk

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