Job Description

Job Category: Business Operations
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Role Title - Business Development Manager - Retail, Sport & Hospitality Sector
Location - Any UK office location
Role Overview
Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.
Our people are our success, and we work as one team.
We are recruiting Business Development Manager to lead business development initiatives for the firm's new Retail, Sport, and Hospitality sector, with a focus on both strategic positioning and hands-on client engagement.
Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.
Candidate Overview
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Develop and implement a business development strategy for key subsectors of the Retail, Sport, and Hospitality sector, aligned with the firm's global goals.
• Identify market trends, client needs, and competitive dynamics to shape the sector positioning.
• Drive the creation of high-impact thought leadership that showcases the firm's expertise and insights in the sector.
• Identify speaking opportunities, panel engagements, and media placements to elevate the firm's profile
• Enhance the firm's visibility more broadly in the sector through campaigns, events, sponsorships, and digital initiatives.
• Create compelling, client-centric propositions that clearly articulate the firm's value in addressing sector-specific challenges
• Build and manage a pipeline of priority clients and prospects across key international markets.
• Support partners in deepening relationships with existing clients and converting new opportunities

Qualifications:

• Degree educated

What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.
We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Our strength lies in our differences.
We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.
As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.