Senior BD Executive / Junior BD Manager

We will offer you a place where you can be yourself and where there are no limits on what you can achieve. With us you can take ownership of your career and have honest conversations throughout. You would join an ambitious firm with a clear strategy for profitable growth where you can get early responsibility and early involvement in growing the business. Here you can expect a competitive and fair reward as well as recognition based on all round performance. This forms part of our internal promise to you The Deal between the firm and its employees.

You can expect:

• A Competitive salary and a host of family friendly policies
• Life assurance Private health and Dental care for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including gym discount and retail vouchers
• The opportunity to support the firms charity through volunteering leave
• A wellbeing strategy that focuses on preventative measures to maintain overall health and tools and support for when we experience physical or mental difficulties. The strategy focuses on four pillars: physical emotional financial and social aspects.
• Most of our roles are hybrid meaning that colleagues benefit from working in our office and remotely. We are happy to discuss this and other flexible working arrangements with you as part of the application and interview process.

This role would suit someone who is keen on being involved in the full range of business development activities. This will include advising and supporting partners and associates on the strategic direction of marketing business development and client development activities working on pitches and proposals as well as leading on events award and directory submissions and communications.

You will be responsible for supporting the business development function across the Greek office. You will report to the Senior Business Development Manager based in London. The team in Greece will also work closely with our business development colleagues in London.

Our Chief BD and Client Officer is based in London. You will be part of a wider network of business development and marketing professionals around the world with team members (mainly in London) responsible for business development media relations web and communications events and CRM.

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The Key Responsibilities of the Role Include:

• Pitches proposals and tender submissions
• Delivery of highquality and impactful bids and proposals working alongside the wider international business development team
• Spearhead the Greek pitching process and support the Greek team producing English pitches
• Collaborate with all of teams involved in delivering bids (including lawyers pricing innovation risk and responsible business teams) ensuring clientfocused solutions that are tailored for a successful outcome
• Develop strong key selling messages for the practice to be deployed consistently in pitches and submissions
• Driving bid feedback collect and share client insights
• Monitor the updating and maintaining of pitch support material for the practice group including credentials pitch templates and CVs

Events

• Assisting practice groups with all events including client seminars and social events in Greece
• Monitor events budget and ensure suggested BD spend is within preapproved budget
• Coordinating sponsorships and partnerships

Internal and External Communications Social Media Platforms

• Work with lawyers and London communication team to managing information going on to the website QUEST (intranet) and newsletters including simple Greek/English translations
• Act as the primary person in preparing briefing notes newsletters and the distribution of materials for Greece
• Work with the London BD team on maintaining SH website Greek information

Legal Directories and Awards Submissions

• Managing directory submissions ensuring deadlines for entry are met and all the relevant information is supplied
• Drafting awards and legal directory submissions and preparing referee spreadsheets
• Maintaining and updating the directories log
• Coordinating research interviews liaising with the partners and the external researchers building good relationships providing the partners with all the necessary/relevant information dealing with queries and lastminute requests for information scheduling/rescheduling appointments booking rooms and conference call
• Updating rankings and commentary documents (including profile sheets) for practice groups following publication

Marketing Literature

• Working with office assistants to create amend and update profile sheets/CVs for lawyers maintaining and updating the profile sheet log
• Liaising with designer/studio in based in London to support the production of marketing collateral
• Managing reception area displays of marketing literature
• Proofreading of marketing literature
• Uploading and maintaining documents on the Intranet (QUEST)

Business Planning and Implementation

• Take responsibility for understanding the different practice group offerings within the firm and explore ways to crosssell the Greek work into other areas of the firm (and vice versa)
• Coordinate implementation of the Stephenson Harwood Athens business development plan
• Support and drive firmwide or regional BD initiatives as appropriate develop marketing communications and campaigns to profile the firms sector offering/group in the external marketplace

Client Relationship Management

• Keep abreast of client issues to enable proactive identification of business opportunities
• Working with the London BD team & talent development team to support the development of client relationship skills of the lawyers
• Undertake client research and analysis as required
• Support the implementation of the global key client programme including potentially taking CRM responsibility for one or more clients
• Liaise with lawyers on articles for external publications and with PSLs and knowledge management on content for client materials.
• Creating managing and quality controlling marketing lists for newsletter mailshots and event invitations via the firms InterAction system

General BD team Coordination and Support

• Be a BD representative at practice group meetings to share BD best practices market knowledge client insights and current activities
• Creating managing and quality controlling marketing lists via the firms CRM system (InterAction) for BD activities such as newsletter mailshots and event invitations
• Conduct research on existing and prospective clients competitors activity and industry or regionals trends
• Stay attuned to news and business developments that may impact the practice/industry and apply that knowledge to identify opportunities for promoting the firm
• Checking presentations for brand compliance and making amends/recommendations as appropriate
• Updating various practice group related memberships and directory listings
• Maintaining order of the BD storage space and keeping a log of items stored
• Assisting global BD teams with requests for information and marketing literature
• Working closely with international BD teams and ensuring they are kept up to date with upcoming projects
• Ability to expertly navigate and utilise Vuture InterAction and the pitch tool in Word and PowerPoint

We are looking for a graduate with relevant marketing and business development experience in a professional services firm.
Other attributes or skills required include:

• Experience of bids and bidding in a professional services environment is essential with experience of managing multiple crosspractice/ crossoffice responses
• Confident robust pragmatic and easy to work with
• A skilled written communicator with a good eye for detail and the ability to influence senior people in the business and develop relationships
• Wellorganised and someone who delivers what they promise to a consistently high standard of quality
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines with excellent project management skills
• Proactive and enthusiastic with a positive attitude
• A supportive and committed team player able to demonstrate experience of building a collaborative environment
• Innovative and open to new ideas with the ability to challenge where necessary
• Commercially aware and knowledgeable and able to demonstrate that you consistently add value to business development thinking and activities
• Good skills in using Vuture InterAction
• Fluent (verbal and written) in English
• Previous experience working for a UK law firm (preferred)

This job description is indicative only and does not represent an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The firm reserves the right to alter or change the responsibilities at any time in line with the firms strategy and business needs.

With 8 offices worldwide and with our headquarters based in London Stephenson Harwood is a law firm where our people are committed to achieving the goals of our clients listed and private companies institutions and individuals across the globe. Our mix of expertise and culture results in a combination of deep local insight and the capability to provide a seamless international service.

Our experience encompasses corporate commercial litigation and arbitration employment pensions and private wealth finance marine and international trade and real estate and projects.

We assemble teams of bright thinkers to match our clients needs and give the right advice from the right person at the right time. Dedicating the highest calibre of legal talent to overcome the most complex issues we deliver pragmatic expert advice that is set squarely in the real world.

We understand the power of diversity in delivering that high calibre advice to our clients. We want to attract diverse talent and we particularly encourage applications from underrepresented demographics.

Our values

Individuality We encourage creativity and develop talent.

Commitment To be the best and deliver the highest standard.

Teamwork We work together to build close longterm relationships

Straight talking We say what we mean and do what we say.

These values express the personality of the individuals within our firm. They are the behaviours we encourage in our people and the standards which inform our decisions and actions.

Our vision into 2026

To be a successful firm where talented people work together in an entrepreneurial environment building long term client relationships.

This vision is about who we want to be as well as who we are. It is as much about our values as about our character the attributes we want to see from all of our people. Thats how we unlock our entrepreneurial spirit advising our clients with top performing teams.

A key part of the 2026 strategy is to focus on five core sectors: energy transition; life sciences and healthcare; private capital and funds; technology; transportation and trade. These have been identified as crucial in the drive for accelerated profitable growth.