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Senior Business Development Advisor

On-site in Leeds·Added today (last checked 12 Oct)

Mills & Reeve

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Overview

Job details

  • £45,000 a year

    Gross, as stated in the ad.

    About £2,990 a month after tax.

  • Fixed-term contract

    Per the ad.

  • Apply by Thursday 12 November

    The date the employer’s listing closes.

Requirements

  • Work on-site in Leeds

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have senior-level experience

    Senior-level role.

Skills

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

As you'd expect, we offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits. to find out more about our core benefit offering.

The role

Here at Mills & Reeve, we are hiring a Senior Business Development Advisor to join our national Marketing team on a 12 month fixed term contract. The role will be based in our Leeds office. Click the link to learn more and apply!

Join Mills & Reeve as a Senior Business Development Advisor on a 12 month fixed term contract (FTC) and play a key role in driving the growth of our Leeds office and Energy sector practice. Working closely with partners, lawyers and business leaders, you'll provide strategic business development support, identify new opportunities, strengthen client relationships and help deliver sustainable revenue growth.

This is a highly visible role where you'll influence decision-making, lead key initiatives and support the continued success of one of the firm's priority sector markets.

What you'll do

  • Develop and deliver business development plans that support the growth of the Leeds office and Energy sector.
  • Drive strategic client development, cross-selling and relationship-building initiatives.
  • Lead and support bids, pitches and tender opportunities.
  • Manage pipelines, identify market opportunities and provide commercial insight to key stakeholders.
  • Deliver thought leadership campaigns, profile-raising activities and networking opportunities.
  • Monitor performance, budgets and ROI while ensuring progress against agreed objectives.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to partners and lawyers, coaching and guiding them on effective BD activity.
  • Champion innovation, collaboration and the use of AI to enhance business development performance.

The person

You'll be an experienced business development professional with strong commercial awareness, excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple priorities while delivering high-quality outcomes. Relationship-focused, proactive and strategic in your thinking, you'll enjoy turning opportunities into results and helping others succeed.

Experience of using AI and modern marketing tools to drive innovation and effectiveness will be highly valued.

About Mills & Reeve

Industry
Business, professional and financial services

In their own words

About the company & team

At Mills & Reeve, our 1,450 plus people and over 850 lawyers share one vision - achieve more together. It's a state of mind in every client relationship we start and every choice we make. And it's what clients consistently say distinguishes us from your average law firm.

You can expect a close and attentive working relationship with a team that's responsive when you need them. You'll receive advice tailored to your individual needs. Wherever in the world you or your business needs support, we'll draw on our network to give recommendations.

We're driven by our values - we're ambitious, we're open, we care and we collaborate. We embrace new ideas, communicate honestly and are easy to work with. We're committed to you, our planet, our communities and each other.

We've been listed in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list as one of the best big organisations, and we've recently been reaccredited Platinum Investors in People status - a standard achieved by only 8% of assessed organisations.

Additional information

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If we offer you a role, we will conduct comprehensive pre-employment screening. This screening will include, but is not limited to, a basic DBS, verification of your right to work, a three year employment history and a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability for the role. Full details of our pre-screening employment process are available upon request.

Technology is changing rapidly and we are all increasingly using AI software in our day to day lives, as well as using it to support our learning and professional development.

Here at Mills & Reeve, we embrace the use of technology and AI and we recognise that candidates may use AI tools to support their applications. As a regulated industry, we expect candidates to use such tools responsibly, honestly and in a manner that allows us to make a fair and accurate assessment of their individual skills, experience and suitability for the role.

Please ensure you have thoroughly read the document attached below to understand what we deem acceptable uses of AI.

Everyone at Mills & Reeve brings a unique perspective and ideas to the team and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive. We're committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment, are happy to consider flexible working arrangements, and want to achieve the right balance for both our people and the firm. We encourage everyone to ask if they feel they need any workplace adjustments, and will do our best to support with these.

To find out more about our diversity and inclusion work, visit our website.

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