Business Development Manager - Retail, Sports & Hospitality

Pinsent Masons; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Pinsent Masons as a Business Development Manager in the Retail, Sports & Hospitality sector. Lead strategic initiatives and client engagement efforts in an open, supportive environment. This role offers the opportunity to impact the firm's visibility and client relationships while working in a dynamic team setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in business development within retail, sports, or hospitality sectors is advantageous.
• Ideal candidates should demonstrate the ability to create client-centric propositions and effective engagement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead business development initiatives for the Retail, Sport, and Hospitality sector.
• Identify market trends and client needs to shape sector positioning.
• Enhance firm's visibility through campaigns, events, and media placements.

Skills

Business development strategy

Market trends analysis

Client engagement

Thought leadership creation

Education

Degree educated

Job description

Business Development Manager - Retail, Sports & Hospitality

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Job Description

Job Description

Role Title - Business Development Manager - Retail, Sport & Hospitality Sector

Location - Any UK office location

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting Business Development Manager to lead business development initiatives for the firm’s new Retail, Sport, and Hospitality sector, with a focus on both strategic positioning and hands-on client engagement.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Develop and implement a business development strategy for key subsectors of the Retail, Sport, and Hospitality sector, aligned with the firm’s global goals.
• Identify market trends, client needs, and competitive dynamics to shape the sector positioning.
• Drive the creation of high-impact thought leadership that showcases the firm’s expertise and insights in the sector.
• Identify speaking opportunities, panel engagements, and media placements to elevate the firm’s profile
• Enhance the firm’s visibility more broadly in the sector through campaigns, events, sponsorships, and digital initiatives.
• Create compelling, client-centric propositions that clearly articulate the firm’s value in addressing sector-specific challenges
• Build and manage a pipeline of priority clients and prospects across key international markets.
• Support partners in deepening relationships with existing clients and converting new opportunities
  
  
  

Qualifications:

• Degree educated
  
  
  

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Marketing

• Industries

  Legal Services and Law Practice

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