Senior Pitch Executive

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We have an opportunity for a sales-focused business development professional to join us as a Senior Pitch Executive. Working as part of our International Pitch Team, you'll be central to delivering outstanding bid and work winning support to our global network. You'll help us to win major cross-border, cutting-edge opportunities, and play a vital role in the firm's growth.

Sitting within our Marketing and Business Development function, our International Pitch Team's mission is really simple; we are here to help the firm to win some of the most exciting opportunities in the legal market. You'll be working with colleagues who have won some very big contracts - both inside and outside of the legal industry - and with senior stakeholders across the firm, to set the strategy and shape the tactics to win new work and strengthen and deepen client relationships.

Key Responsibilities

• Project manage and deliver creative and outstanding responses to client RFPs and other work winning opportunities, working with colleagues across the world.
• Research opportunities and clients using the firm's research tools to inform work winning strategies and tailored approaches to bidding.
• Advise on all stages of the bid process, helping our lawyers to navigate the complexities of formal procurement processes.
• Produce high-quality, on-brand client-facing documents.
• Run post-bid debrief sessions with the client and other stakeholders, to identify lessons learned and continuous improvement of our pitch function.
• Contribute fresh content to our bid library, working with colleagues in other teams e.g. D&I, Legal Technology, and Sustainability, to write relevant and up-to-date content for use in bids and business development opportunities.
• Use the firm's CRM system to update opportunities, wins, losses and learnings from the bids we work on.
• Coach and advise members of the MBD and lawyer community on work winning.
• Support the Pitch Team's internal communication strategy to share knowledge, best-practice and case studies from the Pitch Team with the wider firm.
• Support the delivery of work winning training to MBD department and wider firm, including our international teams.

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of experience in pitching, bidding and/or business development, preferably in legal/professional services.
• Experience of leading on high-value, complex bids to a wide variety of clients, ideally including the public sector.
• You'll have experience of working with international teams and producing work for international clients.
• Knowledge of InDesign, or you'll be really into design.
• Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills and can express complex ideas simply.
• Great organisational skills with the ability to multitask, prioritise projects and respond quick to urgent requests.
• You'll enjoy working with a diverse group of colleagues across all seniority levels.

What's in it for you?

• A discretionary bonus, based on personal and firm performance
• Private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover and health assessments
• We offer a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our colleagues live their best lives including our cycle to work scheme, online GP appointments, gym discounts and our electric vehicle scheme.

The Firm

Bird & Bird opens up a world of possible for lawyers and professionals everywhere. Working for a leading international law firm like Bird & Bird means working alongside people who are truly collegiate in the way they work with everyone. We work as one global team, with over 70% of work involving people from across the firm. And that's only increasing! It's this common purpose and shared approach that makes for a more productive and collaborative place to work. Your firm. Your future.