Senior Business Development Manager

We have a great opportunity for a Senior Business Development (BD) Manager to join our Clients and Markets team within our Business Development department. Within this role, you will be responsible for working with the leadership teams of the Financial Institutions & Services Sector (FIS) and Corporate, Finance & Tax Practice Group (CFT) to agree and implement plans that deliver sustainable, profitable growth and protect important client relationships.

We are looking for someone who demonstrates a successful track record in business development within a legal, financial services or other professional services environment. As a Senior BD Manager, you will present a commercial awareness and understanding of the client's world, with the ability to deal directly with clients and client representatives and experienced in successfully dealing with and influencing senior people, particularly partners. You will present:

• Excellent people skills: a capable networker, influencer and able to quickly establish trust.
• Demonstrable team player and advocate of the firm's values.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to think strategically and put plans into action.
• Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to go the extra mile.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage demanding deadlines.
  
  The Senior BD Manager takes a lead role in the hands-on management of the FIS Sector within the wider BD team to ensure clear decision-making, excellent coordination and high levels of delivery. As a Senior BD Manager, you will work alongside the Senior Communications Manager for FIS and CFT, and other BD colleagues, to ensure that resources are managed effectively to achieve the stated strategic objectives, whilst also working closely with international colleagues to align global objectives and pursue international opportunities together.
Business Development in Gowling WLG operates from our offices in Birmingham and London so the successful individual can be located in either office. We also work closely with BD colleagues in France, Germany, the UAE and across Canada., The opportunity to work within a strong and supportive BD function and with dynamic partners and lawyers in high profile areas of the firm. Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to WorkÂŽ for 24 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:
• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• Offices in Birmingham city centre or in London, overlooking Tower Bridge, both with onsite restaurants.
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Equal Opportunities: Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.