BD Manager

  • Bristol
  • 70000.00
  • Permanent

Do you have the drive and ambition to reach specific targets? Are you a team player with the ability to communicate effectively? 

The role: 

Our client, a global insurance brokerage, is looking for a BD Manager to join their Bristol team. 

Your responsibilities: 

  • Understanding and promoting the company culture 
  • Responsible for the production of a personal Commitment Plan
  • Negotiate fees or commission earnings with clients and ensure credit control is in line with group standards
  • Effectively manage a pipeline of prospects to meet short medium and long-term financial goals
  • Implement a systematic communication plan on targeted prospects and have specific objectives for each meeting
  • Provide activity reports and pipeline status (via pipeline management tool)
  • To identify development of existing and new revenue channels
  • Potential future responsibility to develop and manage a dedicated SME Sales function

Your skills:

  • Energy, enthusiasm and a hunger to develop clients as well as themselves
  • Employee benefits experience
  • Ability to continue to develop knowledge through formal and informal learning (internal and external)
  • Knowledge of the resources available within the company and how to source such services
  • Ability to identify opportunities for business development and identify client needs
  • Confidence to challenge the status quo, innovative and entrepreneurial
  • An understanding of the general, legal principles of insurance
  • Professional and tactful negotiation and persuasion skills to achieve objectives
  • Ability to build strong relationships with clients

If this sounds like you, please apply today.

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    Team Leader

    • London
    • 40000.00
    • Permanent

    Are you an effective and professional leader with strong written and verbal communication skills? 

    The Role:

    Our client, a Top-75 Law Firm, are looking for a Team Leader to join their London team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to develop their career in a leading international law firm that offers great benefits.

    Your Responsibilities: 

    • Oversee the day to day running of the Business Support Services Administration team
    • Build relationships with our lawyers to understand the work and proactively prioritise tasks
    • Encourage an excellent customer service environment
    • Coach and develop your team, including performance reviews, setting objectives and regular one to ones
    • Recruit and train new and existing team members
    • Ensure equipment is properly maintained
    • Work closely with the Business Support Services Manager, Operations Manager, and our HR team
    • Identify opportunities for improvement, to ensure we operate efficiently and in line with best practice
    • Play an active role in supporting business change taking place across the firm

    Your Skills:

    • Fair, inclusive and supportive management style 
    • Able to build excellent working relationships with your team/department, stakeholders and the wider firm
    • Self-motivated, with the ability to lead by example
    • Organised with the ability to effectively prioritise business needs
    • Ability to manage and support business change across the team
    • Excellent attention to detail
    • Knowledge of administrative processes such as printing, scanning, electronic filing and post handling
    • Experience working within a customer service/professional service or legal environment

    If this sounds like you, please apply today.

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      Administrative Assistant 12-Month FTC

      • London
      • 25000.00
      • Contract

      Do you have a love for numbers, strong administration experience and a proactive mindset?

      The Role
      Our client, a UK top 25 legal firm, is looking for a Administrative Assistant to provide billing support in one of their London based teams, on a 12 month fixed term contract.

      Responsibilities Include

      • Be the primary contact for all the team’s billing needs
      • Manage and organise all billing guides for team
      • Produce monthly reports
      • Organise work in progress meetings to discuss billing needs with Partners
      • Liaise with Finance Team to ensure correct invoices are drawn up, and quality check sent invoices
      • Update client details on company systems
      • Work closely with other teams to improve efficiencies and working practices

      About You

      • Organised and excellent time management skills
      • Process driven and loves calculations
      • High attention to detail
      • Excellent communication skills
      • Strong IT skills and excellent use of Microsoft Excel
      • Enthusiastic and proactive
      • Takes ownership of tasks
      • Flexible and open to change

      Please apply today to be considered for this role

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        Two decades of delivering exceptional talent

      • Head of Legal Practice Placed

        "We have been working with Flair for a number of years and their service has always been excellent. Their understanding of our business needs and culture of the organisation enables them to provide us with high calibre candidates. They have always been professional, honest and reliable and I would not hesitate in recommending Flair."

        Hiring Manager

        Osborne Clarke

      • Hiring solutions for a Top-100 law firm

        “We have been working with Flair for a number of years and their service has always been excellent. They provide us with good candidates based on our requirements and are always professional and reliable. I would not hesitate in recommending Flair to other businesses."

        Hiring Manager

        Bevan Brittan

      • Developing a close relationship with an leading law firm for over a decade

        “We have been working with Flair for over 11 years, and have no hesitations in recommending them. The team are very knowledgeable, and have an excellent understanding of the job market. Leah and her team have worked hard over the years to understand us as a firm, and therefore always submit candidates that closely fit our requirements."

        Hiring Manager

        Veale Wasborough Vizards

      • Developing a comprehensive understanding of an established legal client

        “The entire team at Flair are friendly, approachable and professional. They have taken the time to learn how our firm works and as such, source excellent candidates for our roles. We enjoy working with the team on our vacancies and look forward to working with them again in future"

        Hiring Manager

        Haseltine Lake Kempner

      • Saving a financial organisation time and money on their hiring

        “It’s great to work with a recruitment agency who we can trust – it takes the stress out of recruitment. The relationship we have built has made it a much more enjoyable process and the fact that Flair finds the right people who stay with Rathbones means we save so much money in the long run."

        Hiring Manager

        Rathbones

      • Developing a true understanding and process for financial firm

        “We use Flair across our Wealth, Accounts and Legal businesses due to the simple fact that Flair’s professionalism and attention to our needs means we do not waste time interviewing wrong fits. Flair took the time to understand us, keep taking the time to understand us, and this has paid dividends with our hires and retention of those hires."

        Hiring Manager

        Prydis

      • Developing a hiring support relationship based on partnership

        “We have an excellent working relationship with Flair who have invested a lot of time to understand the culture at Trigon and what a successful member of our team looks like. Working with Flair is always a pleasure."

        Hiring Manager

        Trigon Pensions

      • Providing a selection of top candidates to a financial institution

        “Flair have consistently been able to provide a good selection of top candidates for each role I have been looking to fill. They take time out to understand both the business and the nature of the role before identifying suitable candidates. Communication has always been excellent and always very friendly and helpful. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to other businesses."

        Hiring Manager

        Rowan Dartington

      • Provide interview ready and strong candidates

        "It has been great partnering with Flair over the last 2 years that I’ve been working for Curtis Banks, they have helped us fill the vast majority of our vacancies to date. They always respond quickly and provide us with the information we need in a timely manner. The candidates are always of strong calibre and clearly well prepped for their interviews. Ellie is very approachable and keen to speak to hiring managers to best understand their recruitment needs and she also makes sure her team are well informed of the progress of each vacancy so that nothing is missed in her absence. The team at Flair have a sound knowledge of the market and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Ellie and the team for your recruitment needs”

        Hiring Manager

        Curtis Banks

      • Practice Assistant (Real Estate)

        • Bristol
        • 30000.00
        • Permanent

        Do you have experience in a legal environment? Are you a effective communicator that can build strong client relationships? 

        The Role  

        Our client, a top-50 UK law firm, is looking for a Practice Assistant (Real Estate) to join their Bristol team. 

        Your responsibilities include: 

        • Manage client relationships, responsible for keeping up to date with client specific protocols and processes
        • Assist with the organisation of and support with the scheduling of client events, tender meetings, and client training
        • Assist with the organisation of tenders and pitches to ensure the document creation process is managed effectively and to the highest standard
        • Support Lawyers in business development activities, including preparation of pitches and presentations
        • Manage diaries, organise travel and accommodation, book meeting rooms, prepare and circulate agendas and papers
        • Keeping CRM up to date 
        • Minute taking, uploading documents to PDF, arrange photocopying, printing etc.
        • Managing expenses, responsible for client billing process and assisting partners and business development for client and event billing
        • Requesting cheques, bank transfers, and paying in money received
        • Responsible for managing the creation and maintenance of data rooms and client information 
        • Monitoring post/emails and ensuring client related correspondence is passed to the appropriate lawyer

        Your skills:

        • Organised and methodical with excellent attention to detail
        • Proven experience of managing high level client facing tasks and priorities
        • Customer/client service focused
        • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office 
        • Positive can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to change
        • Excellent team player
        • Taking responsibility and accountability for quality of own work 
        • Effective problem solver

        If this sounds like you, please apply today.

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          Marketing & Business Development Manager

          • London
          • 76000.00
          • Permanent

          Do you have a detailed understanding of Corporate and Commercial / Energy sectors? Are you a proactive individual with strong communication skills?

          The Role

          Our client, a Top-100 UK Law Firm are looking for a Marketing & Business Development Manager to join their team in London. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is looking to develop their career within Marketing in a firm that offers excellent training and benefits.

          The Firm

          With high importance placed on a healthy work life balance, you will be required to work in the office three days a week. The company has a friendly and supportive working culture and offer a competitive benefits package.

          Your Responsibilities:

          • Working collaboratively with the central marketing team, manage the requirements for all marketing materials and activities, ensuring C&C practice is effectively integrated in international business development, communications and development client activities
          • Working closely with Head of Communications, devise and implement an effective PR plan with a view to positioning the C&C practice as a thought leader on particular topics/themes
          • Provide support and leads on firm wide BD projects
          • Draft high impact value-add pitch, RFP/ITT and capability documents which respond to specific client/target requests 
          • Utilising internal and external sources, understand and research the subgroups within the C&C sector in order to create business development opportunities proactively
          • Working closely with the Group Leader and in consultation with key partners, support on the delivery of the strategy and business objectives for the C&C practice
          • Develop and implement international business development and marketing campaigns
          • Ensures branding approach is implemented consistently and effectively and that messaging reflects national, regional and international requirements as appropriate
          • Develops effective relationships with specialist in-house resources
          • Understands the (international) legal sector in general and the firm’s competitive positioning in core sectors
          • Any other ad hoc duties may be required

          Your skills: 

          • Proven ability of working across all levels of business, preferably within a multi-jurisdictional environment
          • Experience of initiating and implementing successful business development and marketing communications activities
          • Ability to meet strict deadlines
          • Excellent organisation/project management skills
          • Strong interpersonal skills including oral/written communications, influencing, diplomacy, flexibility, tenacity
          • An international mindset
          • Ability to work on own initiative, show innovation and develop projects
          • Strong IT skills including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, InterAction (or similar CRM database)

          If this sounds like you, please apply today.

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            Business Change Manager

            • Bristol
            • 50000.00
            • Permanent

            Do you have a positive and proactive attitude with exceptional organisational skills? Are you a team player and a confident communicator?

            The role:

            Our client, an award winning UK Top-75 law firm, is looking for a Business Change Manager to expand their team. This role brings together project management, business analysis and organisational change. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to develop their career in a leading international law firm that offers great benefits.

            Your responsibilities will include: 

            • Leading major change projects, working collaboratively to deliver successful change  
            • Supporting legal teams in reviewing and improving how they work, and in developing new products and services
            • Leading process mapping workshops, creating and maintaining task lists and identifying and addressing risks and issues
            • Assisting legal teams to identify opportunities to work in more efficient and productive ways, and support teams through the change process
            • Managing procurements and supplier relationships and, working with a broad range of stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes
            • Supporting the Director of Transformation and Operations across a variety of firm wide projects

            Your Skills:

            • Experience in project management and delivering large strategic business change
            • Knowledge of law firms or similar professional service firms 
            • Supplier management skills 
            • An understanding of technology, including good Microsoft skills, and experience of Visio is desirable
            • Good attention to detail and organisational skills
            • Previous experience of business analysis an advantage, IIBA or BCS qualifications in business analysis desirable
            • Training/qualification in project management an advantage e.g. APMP or Prince 2 desirable
            • Strong desire and ability to learn new ways of working and finding ways to encourage others to adopt new ways of working
            • Strong communication skills, and confident in speaking to people at all levels and presenting/facilitating group work
            • Experience of writing reports, developing communication plans, writing to inform large audiences

            If this sounds like you, please apply now.

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