Senior Business Development Manager

Join our Team as a Senior Business Development Manager at Burges Salmon!

Are you a driven individual with a passion for business development and expertise in working with Dispute Resolution teams? We are seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to join our Business Development team at Burges Salmon. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in delivering our ambitious growth plans for our Dispute Resolution team.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and manage our business development strategy and activities for the Dispute Resolution team – managing the sales funnel at every stage and converting client opportunities
• Drive profitable growth across all specialisms, with a key focus on raising our profile in the London Market.
• Collaborate closely with our talented lawyers and Partners to ensure our business development efforts are effective and commercially valuable.
• Instil confidence and trust with both internal and external clients, multipliers and key stakeholders, using your expertise to influence and guide them with diplomacy and tact.

What we offer:

• An opportunity to be part of a high performing Marketing team and to work with a highly respected team of lawyers and Partners.
• A supportive and collaborative work environment where your business development expertise will be valued and respected. The chance to make a significant impact on the growth and success of our Dispute Resolution team.

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience in legal business development, particularly within contentious legal teams.
• Strong experience of managing marketing and business development activity at every stage of the sales funnel with a particular emphasis on ‘top of the funnel' success
• Experience and understanding of the London market for litigation/dispute resolution work. Strong ability to influence and build great working relationships with senior colleagues.
• A growth mindset with excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.
• A proactive and results-driven approach to achieving business goals.
• Client-facing experience is desirable

Join us at Burges Salmon and be at the forefront of our business development efforts, driving growth and success for our Dispute Resolution team. Apply now to make a difference!

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the third year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the third year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Katarina Athanasakos (Resourcing Co-ordinator) - Katarina.athanasakos@burges-salmon.com or call on 0117 307 6517.

This advert will close as soon as we receive sufficient applications so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

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