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Job Title New Business Executive
Location London
Description

The Department

Mishcon de Reya has a strong track record of investing in advertising and high-profile brand partnerships; generating thought-leadership in the form of publications, events, blogs and social media campaigns. The Campaign Sales team has been created to bring that same culture of excellence to the way we follow-up and nurture sales relationships with the resulting leads.

We understand the importance of creating a best-in-class organisation that connects marketing with sales to drive business growth through new client acquisition. Our Campaign Sales team work closely with Fee Earners, BD teams and Knowledge Lawyers across the firm to identify campaign opportunities and provide a strategic function to support the growth of the firm.

Duties and Responsibilities

The successful candidate will report into the Senior Digital Campaigns Manager and work closely with the wider Campaign Sales team to contribute to creating a best-in-class organisation that connects marketing with sales to drive business growth through new client acquisition.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing an understanding of our services and target personas across core areas of the business.
  • Generating sales qualified leads by responding, engaging and qualifying inbound leads and enquiries
  • Researching and sourcing key contacts at target companies and initiating contact through calling or email outreach
  • Taking a data-driven approach to testing outreach strategies and focussing on continually improving the process
  • Managing and maintaining a pipeline of interested prospects and book qualified meetings with nominated lawyers
  • Following up on the booked meetings with internal stakeholders to get feedback on lead quality
  • Demonstrating best practice including the use of CRM and other sales enablement technologies

Contributing to Campaign Sales:

  • Be seen as a role model across the Campaign Sales and BD team
  • Uphold the standards, professionalism and strategic value delivered by the Campaign Sales team
  • Assist the Campaign Sales team and Practice Groups in developing outreach strategies
  • Support and lead the collaborative culture within the team
  • Offer training and coaching to team members on best practice, as well as share knowledge across the BD team and wider business

The Individual

You will be a high-energy, organised and motivated individual, aware of your part in defining the role of sales within the Firm. You will be able to build and maintain strong interpersonal relationships, have good attention to detail, and possess excellent communication skills.

You will prospect for and manage a continuous flow of leads, serve as the first point of contact for new client relationships, and be excited at the opportunities that will be available to you as an early hire into our expanding team. You will have opportunities to build your career and skills through mentoring with our leadership team and be a valued member of our growing organization.

Skills/Experience

The successful candidate will:

  • Have 2-3 years of sales experience in a similar role
  • Demonstrate strong and professional written and verbal communication skills
  • Be capable of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business to value that can be provided
  • Demonstrate proficiency with HubSpot or another CRM software
  • Be proven in developing creative problem-solving approaches and possess strong analytical skills
  • Be able to multi-task with strong organisational and project management skills
  • Be passionate about fostering strong client and team relationships, and be highly motivated and hard working
  • Have excellent time management and organisational skills - ability to prioritise and manage multiple priorities

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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