Senior Business Development Executive

Location: London
Salary: DUE
Salary band: Dependant upon experience
Contract type: Permanent
Date posted: 28/07/26

Senior Business Development Executive

A leading UK law firm is looking to recruit a Senior Business Development Executive to join its Marketing team. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced business development professional to work closely with partners and lawyers, delivering strategic marketing initiatives, supporting client development activities and helping drive profitable growth across key practice areas.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development and delivery of business development and marketing plans, ensuring activities align with the firm’s strategic objectives and contribute to revenue growth.
  • Deliver integrated marketing campaigns, client events, sponsorships, thought leadership initiatives and digital marketing activities in collaboration with internal teams.
  • Conduct market research, competitor analysis and business intelligence to identify opportunities, support client meetings and strengthen business development strategies.
  • Prepare high-quality marketing collateral, pitches, tenders and client-facing materials, working closely with the wider business development and pursuits teams.
  • Support partners with key account management, client relationship management and client listening initiatives to strengthen existing relationships and identify new business opportunities.
  • Monitor the performance of marketing activity, analysing data and ROI to provide recommendations for continuous improvement whilst managing associated budgets.
  • Assist with a range of wider marketing activities, including legal directory submissions, industry awards, PR initiatives, website content, email marketing and process improvement projects.

Candidate Requirements

  • Previous experience in a business development or marketing role, ideally within a legal or professional services environment, with a strong understanding of client development, marketing strategy and commercial business development.
  • Excellent communication, organisational and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
  • A proactive, commercially minded and collaborative individual with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, a focus on continuous improvement and the ability to identify opportunities to enhance processes and deliver measurable results.

Please e-mail your CV and covering letter in the strictest confidence to  summer.o’sullivan@bluelegal.com

Once you have sent your CV, feel free to telephone me on 0207 118 3003.

 

Please note: Due to the specific sectors we work in, only candidates with valid work experience in a Law Firm, Accountancy Firm, Management Consultancy, Property/Construction Firm, Financial Services Firm or a high profile relevant Association or Agency will be considered.  We regret that our clients will not accept applications outside of these areas.

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