Business Development Co-ordinator

The Freeths is an accredited B Corp and is one of the UKs leading regional law practices. We offer services to both the commercial and private clients across the entire legal spectrum. We operate from offices in Birmingham Bristol Derby Leeds Leicester Liverpool London Manchester Milton Keynes Nottingham Oxford Glasgow Sheffield and Stoke. We have over 280 partners and directors and more than 1100 members of staff in total.

Our client base reflects our nationwide strength and our nationwide service delivery. We are committed to continuous improvement and our increasing success as a business is built on achieving success for our clients. We work in close partnership with clients providing positive practical solutions and clear comprehensive advice.

Our aim is to attract and retain the most talented people and part of this is providing a great place to work. So to support fairness and equality and to encourage a healthy work-life balance we continually monitor and improve our benefits.

We are proud to have been named as Law Firm of the Year at The Legal Business Awards 2024 and consistently rank in the top tier of the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners guides. We are also a silver standard accredited Investor in People Company which means we are recognised for our efforts to improve work place engagement leadership personal growth wellbeing team working and our impact on society

THE ROLE

The purpose of this role is to support the Senior BD manager and partners to assist in the delivery of a coordinated approach to lead generation and new revenue creation. Working as an effective member of the team to contribute to raising our profile and developing new business for the firm and contribute to the co-ordination and delivery of the business development process.

Key Accountabilities:-

• Support the Business Development Team in general business development activity for example preparing for and supporting events pitches and meetings etc.
• Support Business Development Team in account management activity for example attending meetings with the Senior BDM recording minutes etc.
• Undertake desk based research in identifying new lead opportunities and potential clients carrying out background research. Experience of FAME MINT or similar research tools would be useful.
• Building relationships with work referrers in the local market place; including attending local networking events to represent the Firm.
• Managing events ran by the office (in house seminars networking events etc.) including the preparation of invitations managing delegate lists meeting and greeting and ensuring follow up is undertaken.
• Researching local industry events for lawyers to attend and managing bookings.
• General administrative and ad hoc tasks supporting BDactivity.
• Undertake follow-up to networking and BD activity to generate appropriate meetings with clients active targets and intermediaries
• support the Senior BD manager and partners in the creation and maintenance of prospect and target pipelines
• Take an active role in our regional future leaders programme; including holding/chairing meetings with the teams running events ensuring follow up is undertaken
• Preparing and creating marketing material including mini-pitch documents for the regional office

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Knowledge and Experience:-

• Educated to degree level ideally a marketing or business related degree.
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office in particular Word Excel and PowerPoint.
• Office/administration skills.
• Confident use of social media channels particularly LinkedIn.
• Previous experience in a business development role within a law firm or other professional services firm will be an advantage.
• Marketing qualifications will be an advantage.

Personal Qualities:-

• Ability to communicate at all levels both internally and externally
• Excellent ability to prioritise and manage different tasks simultaneously.
• Proactive.
• Ability to develop relationships with third parties through networking and referrals.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a small team.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Positive committed and prepared to use initiative and learn
• Ability to take responsibility
• Strong client focus and ability to demonstrate commitment to outstanding service delivery
• Ability to adapt to changing work environments

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