Business Development Assistant

We are looking for an Interim Business Development Assistant to provide additional skilled BD capacity during a period of temporary absence. The role will work across Banking & Finance, Local Legal Services and other agreed European BD priorities.

Working with the Head of Business Development, Legal - Europe, and other colleagues, you will support the delivery of commercially focused BD activity. This is a junior professional BD role offering broad experience across client panels, directories, campaigns and BD follow-up.

Business development

• Maintain opportunity and action trackers, supporting timely partner follow-up and accurate capture of relevant intelligence in BD and CRM systems
• Undertake research on clients, intermediaries, sectors and market developments to support BD priorities

Pitches, panels, legal directories and credentials

• Support bank panel submissions, RfPs and pitches, including coordinating inputs, preparing first drafts and maintaining deadlines and action trackers
• Maintain relevant credentials, precedent and experience information and support follow-up on pitch and panel outcomes
• Support legal directory submissions, including coordination of matter and referee information and preparation of first-draft documents

Service-line, campaign and event activity

• Support targeting and attendee analysis for priority conferences and events, preparing partner briefings and tracking pre-event engagement and post-event follow-up
• Support budget monitoring, activity reporting and assessment of outcomes and return on investment, working with specialist teams including Events & Corporate Hospitality and Marketing Communications as appropriate

• Professional-services business development, marketing, client-development or comparable commercial experience is preferred
• Strong written, analytical and research skills, with the ability to produce clear and accurate first drafts
• Confident using Microsoft Office and comfortable working with CRM and BD information
• Well organised, with the ability to manage several workstreams and deadlines at the same time
• Commercially curious and interested in professional-services business development
• Comfortable working directly with senior BD colleagues, partners and lawyers
• Strong attention to detail, coupled with the judgement to understand the commercial purpose behind the work rather than simply process a task
• A collaborative and flexible approach, with the confidence to follow up actions and keep activity moving