# Business Development & Marketing Manager (m/f/d) - Disputes

**Company**: Clifford Chance
**Location**: Frankfurt am Main
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Business Development & Marketing Manager (m/f/d) to join our Disputes team in Frankfurt as soon as possible. This is a fixed-term position for 18 months.

The Business Development ("BD") function is pivotal in making the firm's strategy a reality. BD teams collaborate strategically with partners, lawyers and other business professional functions to drive sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities:

- Support the implementation of BD and marketing plans, ensuring alignment with firmwide strategy.

- Track progress against plans to achieve over-arching goals, focusing on ROI on a periodic basis.

- Support research initiatives on regional product and market trends, clients, prospects, and competitors to inform strategic marketing decisions.

- Manage the quality of output, ensuring partner expectations are being met.

- Support the relevant product group in implementing its BD plan.

- Work with relevant stakeholders to develop/shape BD product offerings and initiatives.

- Promote BD offerings and initiatives within the product group and the firm more widely.

- Proactively spot market trends and opportunities for the product group across the region and globally.

- Provide tailored input into significant product pitches and updating and maintaining capability statements.

- Assist in identifying opportunities to position and raise the profile of the product group and its individual lawyers.

- Involvement in the organisation of relevant BD client events, seminars and conferences, sponsorships, PR, etc.

- Support multiple marketing communications projects, including the delivery of relevant directory/awards submissions.

- Support in the creation and distribution of thought leadership material.

- Apply depth of product knowledge to support firmwide client and sector programmes.

- Awareness of competitor, client and marketplace analysis to identify new and emerging client and sector opportunities.

- Work closely with relevant key stakeholder(s) to deliver strategically important BD function projects.

- Support the implementation of the BD Operating Model by assisting with the alignment of activity to teams (within and outside of BD), in line with technology roadmaps and transition plans.

Qualifications:

- Previous experience in professional services business development (preferably in a law firm).

- A strong interest in and understanding of the products relevant to this role.

- Sound commercial awareness of legal market development, particularly in relation to products relevant to this role.

- The ability to develop advisory relationships with partners.

- Strong project management and organisational skills.

- Excellent oral and written communications skills.

- Ability to work as part of a team and with lawyers of all seniority levels.

- Commitment to quality and attention to detail.

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## Skills

### Required
- business development
- marketing
- project management
- communication
- relationship building

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