Business Development Manager - CEE

Business Development Manager - CEE
Prague, Warsaw or Bratislava
Full time

Are you a driven and dynamic Business Development Manager looking for your next challenge? Are you experienced in delivering an excellent business development and marketing service within a professional services or legal context? Then this could the role for you! We are looking for a Business Development Manager to join our global Business Development & Marketing team and provide support to our CEE offices in Prague, Warsaw and Bratislava.

What you need to know

Applications should be made via the careers page of our website: www.squirepattonboggs.com, as we are unable to process applications sent directly by email for compliance purposes.

We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, so please do not delay in sending us your details!

Our Firm

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations. With more than 1,500 lawyers across over 40 offices on four continents providing unrivalled access to expertise.

Our Team

Our global Business Development and Marketing team includes over 75 colleagues working together to provide frontline business development and marketing (BD&M) support and advice at a practice, industry and office level - much of the work being collaborative and international in nature.

Our Partners and Lawyers practice on a broad range of areas such as Corporate, including mergers and acquisitions, Real Estate, including commercial real estate investments, Labor & Employment, regulatory and International Dispute Resolution. Our clients range from private mid-tier companies to publicly listed enterprises and cover a wide range of industries such as automotive, energy and utilities, commodities & shipping, healthcare, life sciences, and -sports and entertainment. You will join our excellent support teams, who cover everything from secretarial services to finance and billing, to support our lawyers in delivering the best service to their clients.

Our Opportunity

The primary focus for this role is to work with the Leadership for our CEE offices to define and execute business growth objectives, identify target opportunities, develop and coordinate BD plans, and work with related teams to grow the firm's business base. As well as working with Leadership, you will also work with individual Lawyers to help them develop and deliver their personal BD plans, including coaching them on BD opportunities, helping them pursue targets and expand relationships, provide strategy for selecting and leveraging practice and industry conferences and other such events. You will also provide primary support in preparing responses to domestic and cross-border requests for information (RFIs), requests for proposals (RFPs), and other pitches, proposals, capability statements and client-facing materials for new or expanded business, including website and digital media, as well as directory and award submissions. This will be a varied role in which no two days will be the same!

You

To be successful in the role you will have at least 5 years existing BD&M experience, preferably within legal services or other professional services organisations and ideally at a management level. You will need to be fluent in Czech, Polish or Slovak, as well as English (written and spoken), and possess strong project management skills, adapting your work style while working on a number of time sensitive projects. You will achieve your goals by exhibiting a confident and professional approach, utilising your excellent communication skills to work with, and build trust-based relationships with, a wide range of stakeholders. You will be able to provide counsel on strategy, client relationship building, and marketing and sales techniques and take a firm wide view towards inclusive participation across offices and practices to maximize client relationships and growth and revenue opportunities. This position can be based in either Prague, Warsaw or Bratislava.

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome applications regardless of age, neurodiversity, disability, family or parental status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression or other legally protected characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.