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Assistant Bids Manager - Pitches and Pursuits

Taylor Wessing UK

Liverpool

Hybrid

GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an ambitious Assistant Bids Manager to join their dynamic Business Development team. In this pivotal role, you will craft compelling pitches and proposals that drive profitable revenue growth across the UK and beyond. You'll collaborate closely with talented lawyers and marketing professionals, ensuring your contributions lead to successful outcomes. With a commitment to excellence and a focus on client service, this position offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive and innovative environment. If you're a results-driven team player with a passion for business development, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits

Hybrid working

25 days holiday

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Flexible benefits package

Qualifications

Strong writing skills and attention to detail are essential.
Experience in managing content libraries and proposals.
Ability to work under tight deadlines and multitask.

Responsibilities

Develop winning proposals and client pitches.
Collaborate with BD teams to enhance pitch processes.
Maintain and update pitch content libraries.

Skills

Writing and editorial skills

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Commercial awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Content management systems

Pitch builder tools

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Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Business Development team, with the addition of a Assistant Bids Manager - Pitches and Pursuits.

The opportunity for you

We are looking for an ambitious BD professional to join our Business Development team as an Assistant Manager – Pitch and Pursuits. If you are a great writer, results focused and a strong team player, hungry for a demanding role where you can have a big impact, we welcome your application.

The Assistant BD Manager – Pitches and Pursuits will play a key role in helping the business achieve profitable revenue growth across the UK, Ireland and the Middle East.

You will work alongside practice-area and sector lawyers and BD and marketing colleagues to develop compelling and client-focused pitches to help us win profitable work. You will report to a Pitch Manager who leads the team and be supported by a Pitch Assistant.

The Assistant BD Manager – Pitches and Pursuits is a high-profile role with direct exposure to senior lawyers and a broad range of colleagues across two of the firm's Business Groups. As well as technical excellence, you will need to demonstrate outstanding communication, interpersonal and project management skills. A keen eye for design will be a distinct advantage.

You will also be a prominent member of the Business Development, Marketing and Communications (BDMC) team and an ambassador for the qualities we admire: a strong work ethic, teamwork, creativity, commercial awareness and client service excellence.

Key responsibilities

Developing winning proposals: Work closely with Practice-area and Sector BD teams to develop client pitches, credential statements, fee proposals and presentations.
Profitable outcomes: Support all aspects of the pitch process from the initial kick off and scoping to lessons learned, with a hard focus on the conversion of opportunities.
Crafting commercial propositions. Develop and deliver best practice pitch and sales materials that are consistently client-focused, compelling, and that stand out by demonstrating the quality of our thinking, market insight and solutions driven approach.
Collaboration: Work with colleagues in our client insights and data, Finance, Risk, and Knowledge teams, as well as across our BD, Marketing and Communications function to bring together insights and information to ensure success in our pitch activities.
Infrastructure: Play a key role in strengthening our pitch infrastructure by further developing and maintaining tools, templates, processes, and systems that support pitch activity. A major focus of this role will be curating and maintaining a centralised library of pitch content, ensuring valuable resources are easily accessible across the two Business Groups and the wider pitching library.
Content creation and management: Maintain and update the pitch content library. Further develop and maintain a library of baseline material and 'grab-and-go' sales collateral, enabling us to respond quickly, consistently and efficiently to opportunities.
Continuous improvement: Help to identify any inefficiencies in the pitch process and develop plans to refine and improve our approach.
Pricing: Work with Finance, Risk and BD to improve our approach to pricing and ensure all pitches have appropriate pricing methodologies applied.
People leadership: Be an inspiring and supportive presence within the BD, Marketing, and Communications team by encouraging collaboration, sharing best practices, and helping to maintain high standards across the team. Provide guidance and mentorship, particularly to the BD Assistant pool during their rotation through pitching. Stay calm under pressure and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
Measurement and reporting: Track the success of pitch activity by analysing outcomes, feedback and other relevant metrics, and identify learnings to refine our approach.
Industry monitoring: Stay up to date with industry trends, competitor activities, and pitch best practices to identify and recommend opportunities for enhancing the firm's approach to pitching and winning work.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

First class writing and editorial skills, with a keen eye for detail; excellent command of grammar and punctuation aligned to our brand guidelines.
Experience in managing and curating content libraries, ensuring materials are well-structured, easily accessible, and regularly updated.
Organisational skills; the ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines.
Client focused with a commercial outlook.
A team player – high emotional intelligence and excellent interpersonal skills.
Strong work ethic and results/outcome focused approach.
Marketing/BD background ideally within a legal sector/professional services context.
Curious about business, people and buying behaviours.
Ability to manage ambiguity and often conflicting priorities.
Professional, proactive, creative, tenacious, good humoured and enthusiastic approach to all work and interactions.
Familiarity with pitch builder tools and content management systems is highly preferred.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

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