Business Development Manager
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About the Role
King & Spalding seeks a Business Development Manager to drive business development strategies for the Middle East offices. The role involves leading pitches, directory submissions, events, and client targeting.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the production of dynamic and client facing pitches, RFPs and other marketing material
- Manage and lead directory submissions and league rankings
- Oversee and support the management of experience for the Middle East
- Collaborate with events team to build successful events
- Identify and recommend conferences, speaking opportunities and networking opportunities
- Conduct strategic research on potential clients, competitors and practice developments
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- Highly experienced business development/marketing knowledge and skills gained in a professional services or consultancy environment
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Strong project management skills
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
- Highly developed Microsoft Office skills
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Company Overview
- King & Spalding is a leading global law firm with a commitment to excellence, innovation, and the seamless delivery of legal services.
Role Overview
- The Business Development Manager’s role is to inform, develop and implement business development strategies designed to target the firmwide desired client base across key practices.
- The role will provide direct support to the Middle East offices including cross office and cross disciplinary needs within the broader network.
- The position will be resident in Dubai and reports to the Senior Business Development Manager for the Middle East.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the production of dynamic and client facing pitches, RFP’s and other marketing material as required to highlight the firm’s capabilities and experience.
- Manage and lead directory submissions and league rankings.
- Oversee and support the management of experience for the Middle East.
- Work in collaboration with the events team to build successful events, including targeted client lists, event materials, participant tracking, on site management and targeted follow up activities.
- Identify and recommend conferences, speaking opportunities and networking opportunities that strengthen the firm’s market recognition.
- Build effective agendas for internal meetings and participate in knowledge sharing and best practice to best highlight the work and initiatives of the Middle East office.
- Identify and facilitate client targeting, including go to market strategies around agreed opportunities.
- Conduct strategic research on potential clients, competitors and practice developments.
- Identify business trends and opportunities and ensure that K&S is optimally positioned to grow market share.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the firm to drive industry and practice initiatives on cross selling and cross practice initiatives, communications, and pursuits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Highly experienced business development/marketing knowledge and skills gained in a professional services or consultancy environment; law firm experience considered a strong plus as well as a demonstrative track record in energy.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
- A creative commercially minded thinker with strong project management skills.
- Ability to quickly grasp concepts and processes with a good command of the subject matter.
- Flexible, proactive and self motivated.
- Ability to work successfully both independently and in conjunction with the global marketing team and fee earning stakeholders.
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills including the ability to communicate with credibility and diplomacy where required.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong client service attitude.
- Able to integrate well into a geographically dispersed functional team.
- Highly developed Microsoft Office skills, including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, and be proficient in contact relationship and experience management databases.
Compensation
- The Firm offers a generous total compensation package with annual bonus in recognition of individual merit based performance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
- King & Spalding LLP (K&S) is committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all state, federal, and local laws prohibiting discrimination.
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