Business Development Associate

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary marketing and business development contact for assigned Practice Groups and/or Industry Subteams, partnering closely with group leaders and senior business development colleagues.
• Support strategic goals and client development efforts by executing marketing and business development initiatives, conducting research, and preparing reports and materials.
• Create pitches, proposals, and RFP responses for new business opportunities, and track activity in the firm’s knowledge management system.
• Develop and maintain marketing collateral, website content, attorney biographies, and other business development materials.
• Coincide strategic awards and ranking submissions and identify additional profile-raising opportunities.
• Partner with the events team to support seminars, webinars, conferences, and other client-facing programs.
• Manage sponsorship deliverables and trade organization relationships for assigned groups.
• Collaborate with communications and marketing colleagues on campaigns and content, including alerts, newsletters, press releases, social media, videos, and website updates.
• Identify and recommend business development opportunities, including speaking engagements, thought leadership topics, and cross-practice growth opportunities.
• Support onboarding for new attorneys by introducing available resources and ensuring marketing-related information is collected and shared efficiently.
• Manage budgets, timelines, contact lists, and communication templates for assigned groups.
• Edit and proofread materials to ensure quality, accuracy, and consistency.
• Provide market insights and trend analysis to support strategic planning and outreach.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Minimum 3 years of related work experience in business development for B2B professional services or law firm required.
• Interaction, Foundation, or other Client Relationship Management (CRM), experience or content database systems experience preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word).
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and projects simultaneously in a deadline-driven environment.
• Proven ability to assist multiple individuals of various levels with diverse needs and challenges simultaneously.
• Independent self-starter capable of managing and prioritizing multiple projects and priorities.
• Strong judgment and ability to make independent decisions with consultation from attorneys, firm leaders, and colleagues as part of developing, implementing, and assessing the marketplace, practice groups industry strategies.
• Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, editing, and proofreading skills required.
• High degree of professionalism when interacting with internal and external clients.
• Ability to think critically, demonstrating intellectual curiosity and solution-orientation.
• Ability to travel as needed across the firm’s footprint (estimate is moderate 10-15%).