Job Description

About us:

Linklaters is a multi-national commercial law firm, with 30 offices in 20 countries worldwide.

We have been named as one of The Times\xe2\x80\x99 Top 50 Employers for Women, recognised by Stonewall as a top employer for LGBTQ+ inclusion, and by the Social Mobility Employer Index as a top employer for advancing social mobility.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further. We also recognise that women, especially, may hesitate to apply if they feel they may not meet every requirement listed despite being excited by the role. If this sounds like you, we\xe2\x80\x99d really encourage you to apply.

About the role:

We are looking to hire a Business Development and Marketing Manager to lead our team in the London Energy & Infrastructure practice!

The team are regularly ranked as the No1 firm for renewables work and advise on some of the biggest and most strategic mandates in the energy and infrastructure sectors globally.

This role will lead the work of the practice, which includes pitching, events, practice marketing (CVs, credential requests, training, group updates), publications and opportunity spotting and will involve the daily line management of two advisors.

A focus of this role is working in partnership with the Managing Relationship Partners for UK Government. This will involve supporting the team to drive revenue growth and protect existing mature revenue streams, act as an ambassador for cross-selling, intelligence sharing, identification of new opportunities and winning new business.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Business Development

Package and promote the firm\xe2\x80\x99s expertise across products and assets, providing the marketing collateral necessary to cross sell our expertise to partners internally and to clients externally.

Use available sources to spot potential new sources of work for the practice and proactively share opportunities with the practice.

Provide tools to enable lawyers to pursue new business leads and to share market developments with clients \xe2\x80\x93 including the maintenance of asset pipelines across energy. Develop a communications plan for dissemination.

Support the practice initiatives relating to client targeting, product specific business development and profile raising including the use of social media and PR Management of social media channels (eg LinkedIn) to raise visibility of Linklaters achievements in the energy and infrastructure space. Liaison with the PR team to ensure external communication of messaging and opportunities for press commentary are being sought and ensure the En&In MBD team are sharing opportunities for media releases

Lead on 1-2 of the global practice priority areas; disseminate information, work with the global associate group, consider appropriate press and publications and thought leadership, share key trends and hot topics, assist with client presentations and trainings.

Client development and relationship management (CRM)

Lead the relationship with UK Government, including all reporting lines and pitching. Lead on 1-2 of the practice key clients as part of the wider firm client focus.

Responsibility for supporting all aspects of the client experience framework/account management for UK Government clients, including supporting the development of the client strategy and objectives, best practices, identification and targeting of opportunities, horizon scanning for new opportunities.

Management of pitches for key CRM clients, working with the Strategic Pitch team where necessary.

We are ideally looking for:

Experience of, or interest in the developing energy and infrastructure markets.

Confidence and ability to advise at partner level and manage expectations at all points.

Previous BD & Marketing experience in professional services.

Experience in pitching and creating client documents to tight deadlines with high attention to detail.

Experience in CRM for key clients.

Understanding of a partnership environment.

This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.

Our benefits:

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you\'ll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

Private Medical Insurance

Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships

Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

Pension and flexible savings options

Income protection and life assurance

Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

Electric car and cycle to work schemes

Emergency family care

Additional holiday/birthday leave

Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave

Travel insurance and season ticket loan

Option to join sports and social clubs

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ( for legal roles or for business team roles).

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