Business Development Manager – Corporate, Funds

Role Overview

• Work with the European Head of BD and the global BD service line leads, partners, senior lawyers and relevant BD colleagues to develop and implement client focused Corporate and Investment Funds BD plans for the Jersey and Guernsey offices
• Support annual planning, budgeting and prioritisation for the service lines in these jurisdictions, ensuring activity is aligned with commercial objectives and market opportunities
• Proactively identify, qualify and help progress new business opportunities, including cross-practice and cross-jurisdictional initiatives with related teams across Ogier Legal and Ogier Global
• Monitor delivery of agreed activity, track spend against budget and report on progress, outcomes, return on investment and lessons learned
• Develop and maintain effective target, client and intermediaries lists for the service line, helping partners and senior lawyers identify priority prospects, intermediaries, client opportunities and market gaps and use these to support focused partner outreach and trip planning
• Produce high quality distribution lists for client mailers, thought leadership campaigns, event invitations and targeted intermediary communications
• Support commercially focused BD trip planning, including target setting, meeting strategy and messaging, priority introductions, pre-trip briefing and post-trip follow-up to maximise relationship and business development outcomes
• Work with the wider BD team to facilitate introductions and cross-selling
• Working with the partners, Head of BD Europe and service line leads, own the BD strategy around priority Corporate and Investment Funds conferences, sponsorships, seminars and webinars, including target audience planning, messaging, partner briefing, follow up and ROI assessment, working closely with the central events, brand and marketing communications teams – these include IBA Private Funds conference and Guernsey Funds Forum
• Work with the central events team to ensure agreed corporate hospitality events, seminars and webinars are highly targeted and delivered professionally, on budget and in tune with internal best practices
• Proactively identify relevant industry conferences and sponsorship opportunities in key markets
• Take ownership for delivering high quality submissions for the Corporate and Investment Funds teams in Jersey and Guernsey for the core legal directories, making use of best practice guidance, coordinating referee lists and closely monitoring results and rankings.
• Working with partners, proactively lead and coordinate high quality Corporate and Investment Funds pitches, proposals, credentials, capability statements and client presentations, ensuring materials are commercially relevant, tailored to the opportunity, compelling and consistent with Ogier’s brand and positioning and value proposition.
• Build and maintain relationships with external networks including key industry associations, intermediaries and networks relevant to the Corporate and Investment Funds service lines to strengthen market intelligence, enhance profile and support relationship development.
• Optimise usage of a number of key memberships that are in place for the Corporate and Investment Funds service lines – measure and report on the value of these memberships.

Requirements

• Relevant qualifications and 7 years + experience in BD within a legal or professional services environment with evidence of operating credibly with senior stakeholders and delivering commercially meaningful business development outcomes
• Strong commercial understanding of the legal / professional services market and the Corporate / Investment Funds markets, including familiarity with relevant clients, intermediaries, products, competitive dynamics and market trends, with the ability to translate that understanding into focused BD opportunities and partner advice
• Evidence of developing and implementing commercially focused, effective BD plans, campaigns and client targeting programmes
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence and judgement to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders across different seniority levels and jurisdictions
• Confidence in meeting and networking with clients, intermediaries and senior professionals in relevant banking and finance markets
• A strong team player with a collaborative, intelligent, proactive, hands on and pragmatic approach – willingness to actively contribute to both strategy and delivery and share best practices
• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities
• Excellent level of attention to detail, project management skills and the ability to manage multiple workstreams across jurisdictions
• Strong capability in CRM systems, reporting and BD technology is required, with confidence in using data, digital tools and new technology to improve efficiency, targeting and BD effectiveness
• High proficiency in all aspects of Microsoft Office is required with openness to BD tech tools and continuous improvement, including approved AI-enabled ways of working where appropriate, and contribute to the adoption of more effective and scalable BD processes