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Job description / Role
Senior BD Executive - Dubai
We are currently working on a great opportunity for a Senior Business Development Executive to join a leading international law firm based in their Dubai office. You will be responsible for providing business development & marketing support across the Middle East region and will have a particular focus on supporting the Disputes Practice Group.
Key responsibilities for this role include working closely with Partners to produce business development and action plans for the practice group, assisting and advising on the preparation of proposals and identifying and developing opportunities to win new work. You will also be responsible for co-ordinating and drafting directory submissions, providing market information and intelligence and then analysing financial information in order to identify trends and opportunities.
Requirements
In order to successfully apply for this role, you will need to be educated to degree level or equivalent and have strong business development and marketing experience which has been gained within a professional services environment, ideally legal.
This is a very Partner facing role and so you must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to effectively manage competing priorities and Partner expectations.
About the Company
At Totum, we are committed to the very specific group of individuals who provide the fundamental skills enabling law firms to move forward faster as successful commercial organisations in the global legal marketplace. By introducing the best talent from traditional management sectors to the important new roles emerging in the highly specialised area of law firm management, we are helping our clients and our candidates discover significant new opportunity and expertise.
Individuals in law firm management roles make up a significant proportion of all law firms. The leadership, business support and strategic management they provide is critical to a law firm’s development. We recognise the exceptional combination of expertise these individuals bring, and we are passionate about the difference we have seen by the right expertise, in the right role, in the right firm. As a team, we champion these law firm management professionals as drivers during this period of industry change.