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Business Development Manager
Leeds/ Sheffield
Up to £40,000
My Client a Professional Firm are looking to recruit a Business Development Manager to join either their Leeds or Sheffield Office. The main purpose of this role is to lead key projects and work areas within the Business Development & Events department while supporting the firm with BD duties on a day-to-day basis.
Main Duties:
- Lead and support the implementation of all related marketing and business development activities for a number of fee-earning teams.
- Support the creation and implementation business development annual strategies and activities.
- Be the key BD contact for the fee-earning teams, to immerse yourself in their market requirements.
- Support the implementation of all related marketing and business development activities.
- Support head of business development & events to implement strategy in line with firm and departmental business strategies and action plans.
- Build and maintain relevant relationships across the business.
- Support and implementation of the X and LinkedIn strategies across the firm accounts.
- Responsible for editing and maintaining content for website across the firm, including preparing content and supporting fee-earning colleagues with content.
- Responsible for creating, editing and maintaining content for social media across the firm, including preparing content and supporting fee-earning colleagues with content.
- Engage with the planning and facilitation of media content recording and creation.
- Oversee the integrated media content campaigns.
- Strategically advise on content and tone during tender creation.
- Implement the Chance of Success Score process during the tender assessment stage.
- Lead the BD support for fee-earning teams with responses to tender including content creation and pitch rehearsal.
- Support and encourage creation and management of central tender resources.
- Researching tender opportunities within suitable markets for relevant fee-earning teams.
Skills Required:
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
- Experience of using social media platforms, X and LinkedIn.
- Time Management - experience of managing multiple projects/tasks/prioritisation.
- Attention to detail.
- Proactivity.
- Team working.
- Able to take instruction and work on initiative.
- Good IT literacy, including an intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, and a working knowledge of Microsoft - Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint with the ability to produce presentations, spreadsheets, documents etc.
- Experience of Adobe Creative Cloud is desirable not essential.
- Experience of Zoom and MS Teams desirable.
- Experience with CRM systems is desirable.
- A desire and willingness to learn new systems and technologies when introduced by the firm.
If you have Business Development experience and are interested in this role, please apply ASAP!
CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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