Business Development Executive

Join our nationwide Business Development team and help shape how we grow. In this hands-on role, you'll win new work, deepen client relationships, and elevate our market presence—from supporting campaigns and creating compelling materials to delivering client events.

This is a varied, fast-paced role with opportunity to build skills across sales enablement, marketing and stakeholder engagement. You'll collaborate with colleagues in business development, marketing, bids and external partners to bring ideas to life and deliver high-quality, client-focused activity.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide business development support to practice teams, including competition, trade and regulation, working closely with sector teams to support our go-to-market approach.
• Produce high-quality sales materials—credentials, proposals, pitch presentations and bid content—and support the central bids team through precedent and pitch management systems.
• Support business development planning and sales activity, targeting new clients, identifying cross-selling opportunities and progressing client plans.
• Deliver marketing and communications activity, including service reports, digital marketing, website and social media content, directory and award submissions, and internal communications.
• Plan, coordinate and deliver events and campaigns (virtual, hybrid, in-person), managing invitations, materials, supplier liaison, reporting and follow-up.
• Support thought leadership and PR activity, including digital content (videos, podcasts), working with external partners and managing budgets.

Skills & Experience We're Looking For

• Experience in business development or marketing within a professional services or similarly regulated environment.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, client development or marketing campaigns.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Experience with CRM systems, maintaining accurate contact data and supporting data quality.
• Excellent written skills with the ability to draft clear, engaging content for bids, proposals and client communications.
• Ability to identify opportunities and contribute ideas to meet business development objectives.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, high-quality work under time pressure.
• Ability to coordinate projects and tasks, ensuring timely, high-standard delivery.
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience considered.

Your Team

You'll report into a Business Development Manager and be part of the Business Development & Marketing team. The team creates brand awareness to identify and win new business and deliver for existing clients—through events, media relations, tenders and relationship building. Specialists cover business development, bids, communications, campaigns, PR, client engagement, marketing and design.

About the Firm

Fast-paced, fast-growing and forward-thinking, we're a law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead—and we do the same for our people. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Our growth and quality of work have been consistently recognised by The Times and at Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients and to be recognised as their 1st tier adviser. We do this by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious.

In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to our success.

• Experience in business development or marketing within a professional services or regulated environment.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals, client development or marketing campaigns.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• CRM systems experience with accurate data management.
• Excellent written communication for bids and proposals.
• Ability to identify opportunities and contribute to business development objectives.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work under pressure.
• Project coordination skills and timely delivery.
• Degree level or equivalent experience considered.