We have an exciting opportunity for a New Business Development Executive to join our growing team.

In terms of location, this role will ideally be based in Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle or London. We operate a hybrid working policy and most full-time employees typically spend around 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home - however we operate a very flexible approach in practice.

The team

Our growth as a firm is driven through our sectors and the sector team play a crucial role at the heart of the business, supporting and advising partners and lawyers in shaping, developing and implementing our sector and client plans. We demonstrate real expertise in developing our clients and take time to understand the client, their business and the sector they work in. In understanding the sector and our client's needs and drivers we are able to identify potential new business opportunities; common themes and trends that may have an impact on our clients; and areas for investment to shape our service provision.

The Role

Your key responsibilities will include supporting client targeting and relationship initiatives and assisting with developing sector business plans and associated action plans. You will also be responsible for undertaking research both internally and externally and conducting analysis on clients, targets, markets, competitors and rankings in order to identify key existing clients and targets for new business.

What are we looking for?

To be successful in this role, you'll need as a minimum;

• Experience of working in a Business Development & Marketing team, ideally within a professional services environment.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads, manage multiple projects and negotiate deadlines, often working with people cross site and in virtual teams.
• Enthusiasm and a positive attitude to delivering an excellent service for our clients with a focus on business benefits and results.

Prior experience in any of our core sectors is desirable, but what is more important is a clear and obvious passion to learn and immerse yourself in a sector to build knowledge and expertise in order to add additional value to our activities.

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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