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About the Role

This pivotal role is designed to enhance the Real Estate division's ability to deliver high-quality, consistent, and strategically aligned business development activity. You will own a defined group of Real Estate teams, ensuring dedicated, proactive BD support and collaborating for a cohesive divisional approach. This position will strengthen and evolve the division's business development strategy, supporting a structured, insight-led, and growth-focused model.

Responsibilities

Act as the primary BD contact for allocated Real Estate teams, ensuring consistent and high-quality support.
Work closely with partners and senior stakeholders to understand priorities, challenges, and growth opportunities.
Support the development and delivery of team-level BD plans aligned to divisional strategy.
Provide practical, commercially focused advice to fee-earners on business development activity.
Contribute insight and intelligence to support strategic decision-making.
Help identify new market opportunities, client segments, and growth areas.
Manage day-to-day business development activity across assigned teams, ensuring proactive and well-coordinated delivery.
Support and coordinate pitches, proposals, and capability materials, ensuring high-quality and consistent outputs.
Oversee the development of credentials, presentations, and marketing collateral aligned to client needs.
Lead on all profile-raising activity, including directories, awards, publications, and thought leadership.
Support partners in identifying and developing key client and referrer relationships.
Contribute to client account planning and help drive follow-through on agreed actions.
Identify opportunities for cross-selling and collaboration across practice areas.
Help ensure consistent and structured support for priority relationships.
Plan and deliver targeted BD campaigns aligned to sector and client priorities.
Support the delivery of client events, seminars, and profile-raising initiatives.
Work with marketing specialists to ensure activity is integrated across channels.
Contribute to raising the profile and market position of the Real Estate division.
Work with partners, lawyers, and business services teams to gather information and support relationship activity.
Assist in coordinating internal client meetings and capturing actions.
Build strong working relationships across the firm while developing confidence engaging with senior stakeholders.
Provide responsive and high-quality support to the Client Relationship Manager and wider BD team.
Support the planning and delivery of client-facing events, roundtables, and engagement initiatives.
Assist with invitations, logistics, materials, and follow-up activity.
Help track attendance, feedback, and outcomes from events.
Contribute to ensuring events align with client relationship objectives.
Monitor pipeline activity across teams, helping to identify and progress opportunities.
Support the development of a more structured and visible pipeline approach.
Provide reporting and insight on BD activity, opportunities, and outcomes.
Help embed a more consistent approach to tracking and converting opportunities.
Work closely with the existing BD Manager and BD Executive to ensure aligned and coordinated delivery.
Help balance workload across the team, reducing pressure points and increasing responsiveness.
Contribute to building a more sustainable and scalable BD model for the division.
Share knowledge, best practice, and insight across the BD function.

Requirements

At least 5 years' experience in a business development role within legal or professional services.
Ideally experience within the Real Estate Sector, but not essential.
Strong understanding of BD fundamentals, including pitching, client development, campaigns, and events.
Confidence working with partners and senior stakeholders in a collegiate but commercially driven environment.
Excellent organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to take ownership of workstreams.
Strong communication and influencing skills.
Commercial awareness and an interest in the Real Estate sector.
Ability to work collaboratively within a team and contribute to a shared goal.

Skills

Business Development
Pitching
Client Development
Campaigns
Events Management
Project Management
Communication
Influencing
Commercial Awareness
Collaboration

Location

Work Type

Hybrid Agile Working

Experience Level

5+ years

Benefits

Opportunity to play a key role in supporting the growth of one of the firm’s largest and most important divisions.
Significant exposure to partners and involvement in shaping BD activity across multiple teams.
Experience across the full spectrum of BD, from day-to-day delivery through to strategic initiatives.
Chance to develop sector expertise within a dynamic and high-performing Real Estate practice.
Collaborative and supportive BD team environment.
Clear opportunities for development and progression within the firm.

About the Company

Penningtons Manches Cooper is a leading UK and international law firm, recognised for combining legal expertise with a deep understanding of our clients’ commercial objectives.
With over 400 specialist lawyers, we provide a full-service offering tailored to the needs of businesses and individuals, delivering high-quality, practical legal advice across a range of sectors.
Our Marketing and Business Development team plays a central role in driving the firm’s strategic growth ambitions.
The team has been recognised as a finalist for Best Business Support Team at the British Legal Awards in both 2024 and 2025, reflecting its impact in delivering commercially focused and innovative BD initiatives across the firm and a testament to its collaborative approach.

Equal Opportunity

At our firm, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is a priority and at the heart of everything we do.
We actively want to attract a diverse workforce and welcome applications from everyone, from all backgrounds.
We are committed to promoting an inclusive culture where everyone can be their full selves and experience being seen and heard.
We ensure that there are equal opportunities and treatment for all job applicants and employees, at all stages of the recruitment process and employment, regardless of age, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and social background.
We aim to provide adjustments for people who have a disability, long-term health condition (including mental health) or neurodiversity.
If you would like to request an adjustment, please contact Sam.Austin@penningtonslaw.com.