The Department

At Mishcon Private, we have a deep understanding of the dynamics and politics of families, family businesses and personal relationships. We understand the issues our clients face and what keeps them awake at night. We know that their concerns go far beyond money and wealth preservation: family issues, reputation, their home, the things they love, or their legacy are far more important. Our business is protecting them, their interests and the things that matter most to them.

Our team at Mishcon Private comprises art, reputation, property, immigration, tax and wealth planning specialists, alongside tenacious litigators who are highly experienced at dealing with both family and business disputes and complex multi-jurisdictional cases. We provide practical and inventive solutions, combining our legal expertise with commercial, real world advice.

We never take for granted the privilege we are afforded by our clients to sit alongside them and be entrusted with their most complex and personal problems. The work we do is never just business, it is always personal and the breadth of Mishcon Private enables us to provide our clients with the support they need whatever their issue may be now or in the future.

Duties and Responsibilities

The purpose of the role is to partner with the Chair of the Private Department as well as appropriate Division and Practice Group Heads to develop and implement innovative and robust business development and marketing strategies and activities that support the department's and firm's business plans. This is a high growth practice which we expect to evolve rapidly.

• Deliver strategically sound, creatively inspiring and ultimately excellently executed ideas and campaigns.
• Develop strong effective relationships with Partners and practice groups based on knowledge of the Firm, the practices, the markets and the different personalities involved.
• Work with cross-firm portfolio heads of Brand, Client Acquisition, Intermediaries, Client Service and Product Development.
• Work closely with our Knowledge Lawyers to understand the key issues and trends which in turn will enable you to see opportunities to exploit which others can't and identify and develop practice-specific content, products and services.
• Identify which are the most appropriate intermediaries for growth and develop plans accordingly.
• Identify new markets for the practice to exploit both through sector and geographic lenses.
• Strengthen the business development and marketing capability of our lawyers and raise their awareness of the help that the business development team can provide.
• Provide a coaching facility to Partners to help them focus on the right opportunities, develop their marketing and selling skills in order develop their creativity and facilitate their strategy to the implementation phase.
• Lead the development of the Firm's profile both internally and externally (e.g. PR, editorial, thought leadership market research, select conferences, newsletters and seminars).
• Develop annual plans as well as budgets.

Contributing to BD:

• Be seen as a role model in the BD team.
• Enhance the reputation of the BD team within the firm for its professionalism and for the strategic and distinctive value it provides.
• Define and assist in the development of marketing and business development plans for cross-firm initiatives.
• Assist the BD SLT in leading agreed cross firm projects.
• Support and lead the collaborative culture within the team.

Skills/Experience

Individuals will be able to demonstrate they:

• Are strategic and creative thinkers, intuitive and capable of identifying, developing and gaining support for appropriate opportunities.
• Have experience in and an understanding of the private client sector.
• Have capacity for deep thinking under big time pressures - across multiple initiatives.
• Can persuade highly intelligent people to buy into ideas they won't necessarily be comfortable with.
• Understand business.
• Are extremely curious and able to absorb a lot of information quickly.
• Are instinctive.
• Have a strong track record of client development in previous roles.
• Have experience in pitch / proposal preparation and one-to-one coaching.
• Are supremely organised.

Individuals will also be:

• Educated to degree level, or equivalent.
• Personable and confident, able to build relationships with partners/ key stakeholders.
• A team player who is analytical, tenacious and self-motivated.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

About The Mishcon de Reya Group

The Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent international professional service business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 people with close to 670 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services. We have grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

Based in London, Cambridge, Oxford, and Singapore, with an association with Karas So LLP in Hong Kong, the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. The work we undertake is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

As of 1 January 2023, Mishcon de Reya and Taylor Vinters merged. The merger delivers on both firms' strategies to support the innovation economy and accelerate our growing share of the technology, media and life-sciences legal and consultancy services market in the UK and in key international innovation hubs globally.

In times of such far-reaching and profound change we want to be the law firm that enables our clients - and our own people - to shape the world's possibilities. We are here to help our clients benefit from new economies, new geographic centres of wealth, the new global movement of people and capital, and the impact of new technologies and new knowledge.

Our purpose remains rooted in our founding values. We take pride in the diverse range of people who make up the firm and are proactive in driving change and continuous improvement across the spectrum of equality, diversity and inclusion. Mishcon Academy , our in-house place of learning, development and new thinking for our people, clients and contacts and our innovative impact strategy, including a commitment to be a net zero carbon business , also play a central strategic role in the direction of the firm. In 2020 we launched Mishcon Purpose , a first-of-its-kind sustainability practice providing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) advice and purpose-driven insight to clients.

The Mishcon de Reya Group comprises standalone businesses MDR Brand Management , MDR Cyber , MDR Discover , MDR One , MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai) and MDRx . Complementary to Mishcon de Reya's core areas of work, each is led by best in class professionals recruited from a variety of non-legal industries and sectors.

We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk flexible working.

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