BD Senior Advisor, Private Equity (FTC)

1050 Linklaters Business Serv; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing Private Medical 保险

Free in‑house fitness centre

Free onsite GP service

Pension and savings options

Life assurance

Travel insurance

Employee networks groups

Job summary

Linklaters in London is seeking a BD Senior Advisor for Private Equity on a six‑month fixed‑term contract. You will drive growth by delivering BD strategies, leveraging data insights and cross‑team collaboration with lawyers and global BD colleagues.

You will identify opportunities, support cross‑selling, and strengthen relationships with priority clients. The role requires strong analytical and stakeholder management skills within a professional services environment.

Qualifications

• Proven business development experience within Private Equity or professional services.
• Ability to identify growth, client development and cross-selling opportunities.
• Strong analytical and commercial skills using market intelligence and data.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of BD plans for Private Equity.
• Collaborate with global BD teams to connect UK initiatives to global strategies.
• Identify opportunities and support targeted go-to-market activity.
• Deliver growth initiatives and cross-selling across practices and product areas.
• Contribute to pitches, proposals and client-facing materials.
• Use data and market intelligence to support horizon scanning and pipeline management.
• Shape BD priorities through analysis of market developments.

Skills

Business Development

Business Partner Support

Client Presentation Strategy

Communication

CRM System

Domain Expertise

Insight Generation

New Business Development

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Business Planning

Tools

CRM Software

Data Analytics Tools

Job description

About us: Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

The Role

We are looking for a BD Senior Advisor, Private Equity to join our Business Development and Marketing function on a six-month fixed-term contract.

You will play a key role in delivering BD strategies that drive growth across Private Equity and align with the firm’s wider client, sector and strategic priorities. Using market insights and data‑led intelligence, you will identify opportunities, support cross‑selling and help strengthen client and internal stakeholder relationships, working closely with lawyers and colleagues across our global BDM function.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support the development and delivery of Business Development plans for Private Equity, helping to drive growth and align activity with the firm’s wider strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with global BD teams to ensure UK Private Equity initiatives are connected to global strategies, priorities and growth objectives.
• Work across the wider Business Development and Marketing function, including Client and Sector teams, to identify opportunities and support targeted go‑to‑market activity.
• Deliver Private Equity, sector and client growth initiatives, identifying and facilitating cross‑selling opportunities across global practices and product areas.
• Support the development of win strategies, pitches and panel submissions, providing timely, high‑quality input to strengthen the firm’s position with priority clients and prospects.
• Use data‑led insights and market intelligence to support horizon scanning, opportunity identification, pipeline management and targeted client development.
• Analyse market developments and external trends to help shape BD priorities, initiatives and growth opportunities across Private Equity.
• Support the effective use of MarTech, data infrastructure, global processes and shared services to deliver proactive, targeted insights and efficient BD activity.

What we’re looking for

• Proven business development experience within Private Equity, ideally gained within a legal or professional services environment.
• Strong understanding of the Private Equity market, including relevant transactions, fund formation, portfolio companies and wider market trends.
• Experience supporting the development and delivery of BD strategies, with the ability to identify growth, client development and cross‑selling opportunities.
• Strong analytical and commercial skills, with experience using market intelligence, data and technology to identify opportunities and inform BD activity.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders and colleagues across global teams and functions.
• Experience contributing to pitches, proposals and client‑facing materials, alongside an understanding of global professional services processes and shared service models.

What's on offer

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you’ll be making to our success. These include:

• Health & Wellbeing Private Medical Insurance
• Free in‑house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
• Finance Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will‑writing services
• Family & Lifestyle Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

• Business Development
• Business Partner Support
• Client Presentation Strategy
• Communication
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System
• Domain Expertise
• Insight Generation
• New Business Development
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Business Planning

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Equal Opportunity

We recruit on the basis of merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Selection decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, are recorded at each stage of the selection process. Selection criteria and, where appropriate, technical skills tests are in place to measure an individual’s ability for the safe and effective performance of a job. Those involved in recruitment and selection decisions and processes are also provided with guidance on diversity issues. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance.

We know that diversity makes us a better law firm and helps us attract the best talent, drive innovation with diversity of thought, and deliver the best experience to everyone who comes into contact with us. We recruit on the basis of merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Selection decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, are recorded at each stage of the selection process. Selection criteria and, where appropriate, technical skills tests are in place to measure an individual’s ability for the safe and effective performance of a job.