In 2024, Cripps was awarded “Law Firm of the year: the Independents” at The Lawyer Awards, recognising the firm’s clear vision, strategy and purpose-driven culture.
The award reflects the firm’s ambitious growth strategy and central to that is the expansion of our corporate services. The role holder will play a pivotal role in helping the practice group to achieve its growth goals. You will have direct responsibility for developing and delivering the BD and marketing strategy for the corporate group which includes corporate transactions, employment, commercial/tech and commercial dispute resolution services. You will work across these service lines to bring together a comprehensive and compelling offering, targeting ambitious and entrepreneurial mid-market businesses, predominantly based in London and the South.
Due to an internal move, we are now looking to hire an experienced BD professional, preferably with experience of targeting mid-market entrepreneurial businesses within a professional services environment. You will work closely with the Head of Corporate to develop and deliver our ambitious growth strategy, and collaborate with practice group team leaders to develop and implement their action plans. You will be seen as a key member of the team, proactively contributing, influencing and instilling BD best practice in the firm.
This role acts as a ‘sales enabler’ in supporting lawyers to win work, as opposed to being a direct sales role. Some of your key responsibilities will be:
You will be a fantastic communicator who loves building relationships internally and externally. You will have extensive experience supporting professionals in lead generation and conversion, pitches and key account management. You will also have proven experience of delivering multi-channel, lead generating marketing campaigns. Additionally, a passion for utilising technology, leveraging data in decision making and being able to adapt to change will be highly beneficial. In return, you will be joining a well-established, innovative BD&M team and driving the agenda for this enterprising and ambitious corporate group.
As a top 100 law firm, we are not only dedicated to our clients but also to our people, ensuring that we support each other with training and development opportunities, clearly defined career progression paths, access to the latest legal tech and a range of benefits that include private health care, a free 24hr counselling services via an Employee Assistance Programme, 25 days of annual leave plus your birthday off (if it falls on a working day), and a charity day to use each year.
Our strategy is to put people at the centre of everything we do. We have designed a guide to help employees achieve the right balance between working in the office and working from home, while serving the needs of our clients and the firm. It is likely that most of us will spend around 50% of their time in the office and 50% working from home However we appreciate arrangements may vary from role to role. This approach encourages office time focused on training, supervision, collaboration and innovation, and those tasks that require individual focus to be completed while working at home.
If you are interested in this position and would like more information, please send your CV to [email protected].
We are open to considering flexible ways of working from all applicants, please do contact us to discuss how this could work for you. Find out more about working at Cripps.
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