Business Development Manager - Sydney
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Business Development Manager to join our Sydney office.Our Business Development Managers are responsible for ensuring our regional Business Development, Marketing and Communications team delivers the client growth strategy for the firm’s APAC region. This role will closely with stakeholders on a wide range of Australian and regionally based client-facing initiatives to promote, attract and convert new business opportunities with existing and new clients, working with internal stakeholders; to help the firm build its brand via targeted promotion of our service offerings.
Working collaboratively with other senior team members, you will be responsible for a portfolio of groups and will have line management responsibility for 1 – 2 direct reports.
About our APAC BD, Marketing & Communications team
You will be a valued member of Pinsent Masons’ APAC Business Development, Marketing & Communications team comprising 20 professionals based across our seven (7) Australian, Singapore and Greater China offices. We have 7 Managers (including two specialists), 5 Executives and 4 Assistants.
We offer on-the-ground training and development opportunities for all team members. Our team has a clear vision, focus and ambition for what, we as a team, are here to deliver to the firm to support its strategic growth vision.
About you
As a high performing team, we want to attract professionals who are like-minded in their goal to do great work, learn and grow professionally, have fun and be open to offering ideas and sharing their experiences and learnings with others in this role.
To be considered for the position, you will have:
- A minimum of 6 -7 year’s professional experience
- Relevant qualifications (i.e. commerce, business, communications, marketing)
- Prior work experience in a professional services environment (legal, financial services)
- Direct line management experience
- Demonstrated ability to understand our business and deliver a broader range of business building initiatives independently
- Excellent copywriting /editing skills, with high attention to detail
- Strong document production skills (MS Word, Excel and Power Point)
- Experience drafting proposals and/or other market-facing collateral
- Event management experience
About Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons is a multinational global professional services firm with a purpose – to make business work better for people . We empower our people to question how things are done and to be bold in their ideas. To encourage this, we provide an environment where you can drive your career development, work flexibly and learn fast.
While legal services are at the heart of what we do, we are at a firm with a diverse array of teams and skillsets. We are a firm that relies on the work of our talented business operations teams in information technology, finance, business development and human resources to continue to drive the growth we have experienced since arriving in Australia in 2015.
With offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, we work on major projects and matters that are driving the building of key infrastructure and the transition to renewable energy across Asia Pacific. You will collaborate with our teams across the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa and you will be supporting the work of 2,000 lawyers widely considered to be leading lights in our sectors of focus.
What makes Pinsent Masons a great place to work?- We have a global reach and a local feel. With 27 offices and 2,000 lawyers operating across Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, you'll be exposed to domestic, international and multi-jurisdictional high-profile work, yet be in an office where everyone knows your name.
- We do things a bit differently. Legal services are at the core of our business; however we have diversified into other areas providing complimentary services to clients through offerings like Vario flexible services.
- We like to be flexible . Our firm is professional and allows you to bring our whole self to work. Dress for your day and in your own style and participate in practices that support your wellbeing, mental wellness and work/life balance so that everyone can thrive at work and at home.
- We're lots of fun and very inclusive. You'll also have plenty of opportunities to participate in, and even run, social activities, diversity and inclusion networks, and charitable initiatives.
At Pinsent Masons we value diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.
Contact Details
If you're interested in learning more or discussing this opportunity in further detail, please contact Internal Recruitment Manager, Ellie Rosenberg via ellie.rosenberg@pinsentmasons.com .Please note we only accept CVs that are logged on the Recruitment portal.