Business Development Assistant Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Business Development Assistant to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Bids and proposals: working on new business projects, overseeing and recording the success of pursuits;
- Carry out client and market research;
- Organise internal meetings, build relationship with fee earners and senior stakeholders and take minutes;
- Effective diary management, enabling the BDM’s to be proactive;
- Support and continually develop relationships with Advisers, Product Providers and Third Parties;
- Lead Generation;
- Client relations and feedback surveys;
- New project information research (online, social media, publications);
- Focus on new regions;
- Download / gather tender information;
- Administration;
- Prepare tender documents (Excel / Powerpoint);
- Efficiently and professionally advertising the company and their funds;
- Discuss tender requirements with new and existing clients;
- Attending client meetings.
Requirements:
- Pitches, CRM and project management experience (desired);
- One year of experience, preferably in a legal / professional services environment;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal;
- Degree educated (minimum of 2.1);
- Flexible and hardworking individual who is willing to muck in;
- Strong communication skills and the ability to challenge;
- Understanding of analysis, and measuring ROI;
- Marketing qualification, ie CIM Diploma or Post-Graduate Diploma or appropriate equivalent professional qualification (Desirable);
- Experience of managing own time and completing multiple tasks/assignments with potentially competing deadlines;
- Strong organizational skills;
- Experience within a professional services organization or a complex/matrixed organisation (Desirable);
- Experience of co-ordinating Marketing, Client & Business activities with measurable outcome.