About the Role
Join a leading global law firm and play a key role in driving the growth and market positioning of our Digital Legal Delivery practice and broader AI initiatives. You will work closely with partners, senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to shape pursuit strategies, support complex opportunities and ensure alignment between global priorities and regional execution across APAC.
Responsibilities
- Lead opportunity shaping and pursuit strategy for priority mandates, including the development of high-quality bids and client-facing materials.
- Advise and influence partners on positioning, messaging and differentiation to strengthen our approach on complex opportunities.
- Coordinate BD activity across APAC and align with global strategy, ensuring consistent execution across teams and jurisdictions.
- Lead the preparation of directory and awards submissions, ensuring accuracy and alignment with strategic priorities.
- Support pricing and commercial thinking on complex, multi-disciplinary mandates, contributing to competitive and commercially sound proposals.
- Develop and refine Digital Legal Delivery and AI propositions, and partner with Marketing, Communications and Events teams to deliver strategic market-facing initiatives and thought leadership.
- Provide strategic insight, research and analysis to support client engagement, pipeline development and partner decision-making.
Requirements
- 3–5 years’ experience in a business development, strategy or client-facing role, ideally within professional services or a complex B2B environment.
- Demonstrated project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to contribute to pricing considerations and understand complex delivery and commercial models.
- High attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
- Ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders, including partners, and to advise, influence and collaborate effectively across teams and jurisdictions.
- An innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies.
Skills
- Business Development
- Strategy
- Client-facing
- Project Management
- Organisational Skills
- Commercial Acumen
- Pricing
- AI
- Emerging Technologies
Location
- Brisbane
- Melbourne
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- Degree in marketing, commerce, business or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Holistic wellbeing fund
- Home office allowance
About the Company
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals.
- Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core.
- We invest in and care about our client relationships, which is why so many are longstanding.
- We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.
- As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be.
- Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world’s largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs.
- At our best tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions.
- We are recognised as leading in these areas.
- We are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you.
- We are recognised as standing apart in energy, infrastructure and resources.
- And we’re focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world.
- All of this is achieved by supporting the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition – which is to help you achieve yours.
- We’re a world leading international law firm with a global team of over 6,000 professionals across 26 offices.
- As the market leader in Australia, we are committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity and digital innovation.
- We are client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for our solution-focused expertise.
- We will align your growth with our ambitions.
- We make your personal and professional growth our business.
- And as part of the team, our ambition is yours too.
- Wherever you are in your career: grow and help the firm grow with you.
- We will provide opportunities to learn on the job as well as a mix of learning opportunities tailored to you.
- Daily experiences, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors, and structured learning opportunities help you to expand your knowledge and reach your goals.
- We value your wellbeing, both at home and work and we place a strong emphasis on mental health.
- If you need support, you’ll have it and we’ll empower you to harness your personal strengths, navigate uncertainty, embrace opportunities, and effectively manage things within your control.
- Join us to be part of a human, bold and outstanding team at Australia’s market leading law firm.
- We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives.
- We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance.
- This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, we align your growth and ambition with ours.
- We invest in your personal and professional growth and support you to achieve your ambitions.
- And you share responsibility for playing a part in delivering the firm’s growth and ambition too.
- A leading global law firm, with over 6,000 people, we are in the world's largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs.
- We’re recognised leaders in demanding contentious matters, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private transactions.
- We’re immersed in the many challenges facing our clients.
- We’re invested and resourceful.
- We understand the part technology and digitalisation play in the delivery of legal services.
- We want to make a positive impact wherever in the world we operate.
- You’ll have the opportunity to engage with this with an open mind and curiosity.
- We are known for our diverse perspectives and renowned for our culture.
- Being human, bold and outstanding are more than our values: you’ll discover they are our lived experience.
- And by being ambitious for your growth and ours, we’ll achieve our goals together.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives.
- We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance.
- This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.
