BD Advisor (6 month contract)

Role Overview

You will provide essential support to our legal and business development teams across Corporate practice. You will work closely with lawyers, managers, and global teams to deliver high quality research, documentation, and coordination that drives client service excellence and supports the firm's strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Support lawyers and BD teams with legal research, document preparation, and case management.
• Support the development of pitch and panel submissions, and help prepare directory, award, and league table entries.
• Conduct client, market, and competitor research to inform legal strategies and client engagement.
• Draft, review, and maintain client facing collateral, reports, and marketing materials.
• Coordinate and support targeted campaigns, events, and initiatives.
• Maintain and update practice materials, mailing lists, and databases.
• Collaborate with global and regional teams to share best practices and drive strategic projects.
• Support the implementation of BD and legal plans aligned to practice business goals.
• Project manage the end to end process for pitches, client alerts, and profile raising activities.

Qualifications

• Prior experience providing business development support.
• Prior experience working as a Paralegal or support lawyer within a professional services or law firm environment is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across global teams and functions.
• Analytical skills to interpret legal and market data, and identify opportunities.
• Experience producing accurate and quality documents, RFPs, and pitches.
• High degree of commercial acumen and strategic thinking.
• IT and social media literacy; ability to facilitate meetings and present effectively.
• Organised, resilient, and able to manage multiple priorities and tight deadlines.

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

We recruit on the basis of merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Selection decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, are recorded at each stage of the selection process. Selection criteria and, where appropriate, technical skills tests are in place to measure an individual's ability for the safe and effective performance of a job. Those involved in recruitment and selection decisions and processes are also provided with guidance on diversity issues. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance. Specific experience requirements advertised on a role do not intend to preclude applications from candidates who may have more or less experience. Our intention is only to indicate a guideline as to the necessary skills for the role as described.