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Business Development Executive

Location: 

London, GB

Department or practice area:  Business Development

Taylor Wessing

 

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition. 

 

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Business Development  team, with the addition of a Business Development Executive.

 

The opportunity for you

 

The BD executive plays an important role in supporting the IP (including patents), commercial and data teams. The role will support both the UK and international teams on delivering their BD objectives.

 

The role requires strong commercial acumen, the ability to get to know the business quickly and develop a broad range of relationships, and a proactive, engaging and energetic style. We are looking for someone who will bring a strategic mindset and strong planning and advisory skills, along with a willingness to dive into the detail and take a hands-on approach to implementing the delivery of the groups' business plans.

 

The role is important in helping us build on client development and profile-raising work that has already been achieved and continue to create a more structured approach to BD activities. It is also central to helping the firm develop a more commercial outlook to its clients and its work.

 

You will be a part of a BD, Marketing and Communications team that is already well-established and respected within the firm by partners and other fee-earners for its high standard of service and the ideas and commitment it brings to business development.

 

Key responsibilities

 

  • Working with Partners and BD colleagues across the firm to provide business as usual BD support, identify issues/opportunities to develop new business or cross sell, and proactively identify and utilise market intelligence. 
  • Leverage marketing technology to spot opportunities to develop existing clients and services, track key relationships and measure the success of initiatives.
  • Provide support to key client relationships, working with client teams on cross-selling initiatives.
  • Support the creation of compelling credentials, proposals and pitches, to respond to fast turn-around bids, strategic panels and other opportunities to win work.
  • Collaborate with the Events and BD Operations teams on client events for your practices.
  • Provide support on legal directory and award submissions processes.
  • Manage and support specific thought leadership campaigns, BD products, client communications and marketing initiatives, working with the wider BD, Marketing & Communications team.

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

 

This role is a busy and demanding position yet hugely satisfying and rewarding to work as part of a dynamic, ambitious practice department. We are looking for a candidate with the following knowledge, skills and experience:

 

  • A can-do attitude with a bias for action.
  • Proactive, tenacious and creative approach.
  • Strong commercial awareness and focus.
  • Solid business development/client relationship management experience at a similar level from within the legal sector or professional services.
  • Experience within the corporate legal and or tech sector will be beneficial.
  • Excellent communication skills –both written and oral.
  • Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
  • Ability to motivate and inspire the fee earners to deliver business goals and change behaviour where required.
  • Ability to work to deadlines, juggle multiple projects and deliver under pressure.

 

Benefits

 

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

  • Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week) 
  • Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata). 
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child). 

 

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available. 

 

Our culture

 

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation.  We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team.  We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

 

The way we work

 

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.  

 

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