Business Development Specialist

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Role: Business Development Specialist

Department: Business Development, Canada

Reporting to: Business Development Manager, Canada

Location: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary

This role is part of a professional job family with hybrid work mode (2-3 days per week on site

This role may occasionally require working outside of the typical 9-5 schedule in order to support on-site events.

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $80,000 to $95,000.

Key Responsibilities

In this role, you will assist with a broad range of duties, including but not limited to:

• Leading proposal responses from RFP assignment to submission, collaborating with cross-functional teams, ensuring consistency and accuracy in messaging to win new business.
• Drafting award submissions to support lawyers in elevating their industry profile.
• Providing support for strategic business development initiatives.
• Supporting the Business Development team in organizing and executing regional clients and firm events and webinars, including but not limited to, coordinating elements of invitations, logistics and on-site set up.
• Preparing ad-hoc templated financial reports, prospective client research and competitive intelligence.
• Assisting the business development team in tracking and analyzing all client development activities.
• Administering the InterAction database, including creating and maintaining targeted mailing lists.
• Supporting the firm's digital channels, including updating the firm's website, editing lawyer profiles and practice pages, and aiding in recording of videos and podcasts.
• Coordinating sponsorship commitments and social media presence in the region, including drafting social media responses.
• Assisting lawyers in identifying and evaluating strategic opportunities to develop and promote their respective business lines and practice areas.
• Supporting the North American Business Development Department on ad hoc projects.
• Handling any other relevant task pertaining to evolving or emerging business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, commerce, administration or the equivalent.
• Minimum 3-7 years' relevant experience, preferably in a law firm or professional services environment. Experience and exposure to proposals and pitches is required. Any exposure to drafting client-facing materials for businesses will be considered.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, fluency in English is essential, French will be an asset.
• Team player with strong willingness to support other team members as required and contribute to the success of the overall team.
• Strong organization skills to manage priorities with competing deadlines.
• Experience with contact and document management systems such as InterAction and FileSite/iManage a plus.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work at all levels with confidence, a positive attitude, and build credibility quickly with stakeholders.

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.

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This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.