24 Sep Marketing & Business Development Adviser – Senior Level | Markets & Sectors | Highly Successful National Law Firm | Sydney or Melbourne

Posted at 15:11h in Australia, Business development, Permanent by Charles Handley

Locations: Sydney or Melbourne Job ID: 14857798

  • Opportunity for an ambitious BD & Marketing Coordinator, Executive, Consultant or Adviser to step-up and develop strategic capabilities and grow towards Manager level
  • Broad sector focused role working across multiple groups
  • Join one of Australia’s most successful and rapidly growing award-winning national law firms with over 140 partners
  • Culture of professional development, high performance, collaboration while being friendly, flexible, and supportive of work-life balance
  • BD & Marketing function is supported by a well-resourced bid team
  • Candidates from other areas of professional services encouraged to apply

Are you a talented, intelligent and ambitious business development professional seeking an opportunity to further your skills and career development prospects at a sophisticated, progressive and growing professional services firm? Dalton Handley is working with one of the success stories of the legal sector; a firm that will look great on your CV and offer fantastic internal career development opportunities.

This firm that has achieved focus on high performance, professional development, and growth while maintaining a friendly and nurturing culture, supporting work-life balance, flexibility, social connection, and health and wellbeing. They even offer free breakfast.

The firm’s desirable working environment is reflected in the firm’s lengthy average employee tenure.

An excellent exciting opportunity has arisen Business Development & Marketing Advisor to join the national team. Reporting to a well-regarded senior leader, this newly created role will be responsible for actioning and proactively identifying business development, marketing and communication requests for the Markets and Sectors group with responsibility for key growth markets for the firm.

Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be responsible for, but not limited to:

  • working with the Head of Markets to advise and support the Market/Sector partner leads and senior lawyers on strategic sector and personal brand promotion, and practice development strategies;
  • identifying business development opportunities in the health & aged care, social infrastructure and education & training sectors;
  • advising and supporting initiatives for key clients;
  • working with the Bids & Pursuits team on the health & aged care, social infrastructure and education & training tender submissions;
  • leading a range of other opportunistic bids, such as proposals and capability statements;
  • directory and award submissions;
  • working with the Communications team to identify and action external profiling opportunities;
  • leading relevant business and industry association relationships, including sponsorships; and
  • working with the Events team on client, sector and national firm events.

Skills And Experience
We would like to hear from candidates with the following skills and experience:

  • 3+ years’ experience gained in a similar marketing and/or business development position, ideally in professional services;
  • tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline;
  • ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with key firm stakeholders and clients;
  • strong influencing and negotiation skills;
  • excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interact at all levels;
  • excellent written and communication skills;
  • strong attention to detail;
  • ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines; and
  • proactive and strong problem-solving abilities.

Recruitment Agency Information

Dalton Handley is a market leading recruitment and career advisory firm, our team and alliance partners in the UK and Asia has over 40 years’ experience specialising in business development and marketing roles within professional services; we understand the intricacies of your world and the firms we have partnered with for years.

We have placed hundreds of candidates into career enhancing roles and built high performance BD and marketing teams with some of the world’s leading professional services businesses, from global law firms, the Big-4 and global engineering firms, through to boutique consultancy practices.

To apply, or to have an exploratory conversation in the strictest of confidence, please contact Charles Handley at Dalton Handley. Your CV will not be sent to any firms without your prior consent.