Our top rated client is seeking a Business Development / Relationship Manager (Legal) who will provide proactive business development support to the Start-Up / VC Partners, with a focus on supporting Partners' business development efforts with client, referral, and social networks.
This position can be based in their San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle offices.
What You'll Do :
- Support Partners in the management of their contact networks, including staying top-of-mind with key contacts and tracking and organizing the Partners' ongoing efforts.
- Manage and help maintain a database of current clients, prospective clients, referrals, marketing and sales activities.
- Help identify potential opportunities to introduce other practices to our scaling corporate clients.
- Be a trusted advisor for the leaders in your market(s) by bringing insights, leading practices, and creative thinking to support them in their business development efforts.
- Evaluate the quality of various entrepreneurial events / organizations to help focus Partners' efforts on such events / organizations.
- Coordinate and schedule business development, networking and other related activities and meetings.
- Attend and secure speaking engagements at such events and coordinate with Partners attending in developing / evaluating leads on quality companies.
- Assist Partners with the screening of certain unfunded start-up opportunities.
- Support in referrals of clients seeking funding (both funded and unfunded) to VC contacts.
- Directly participate in and train administrative assistants on social media (including Twitter and LinkedIn) to support partner reputation building and direct targeted communications to individuals and various network groups.
- Draft introductions, gratitude letters, reminders, confirmations, and other correspondence and emails.
- Act as an accountability resource for the Partners to help them achieve the networking goals they set for themselves.
- Prepare research and marketing / sales materials for meetings with prospective clients.
- Assist in responding to proposal opportunities.
- Assist in completing postmortems on pitches.
What You'll Bring :
Bachelor's degree required; MBA or JD preferred.7+ years of experience; law firm, Big Four, or professional services experience a plus.Account management and / or customer relationship management experience preferred.Impeccable written and verbal communication skills, that meet the demands of high-performing large law firm Partners.Experience in marketing, business development and / or pursuit management required.Excellent relationship development and persuasive skills-at all levels of the organization.Strong project- and people-management skills.Strong analytic, critical thinking, and creative capabilities.Intermediate to advanced social networking skills.Understanding of technology industries (software, mobile, life sciences, cleantech, etc.) and start-up ecosystem.Versed in Salesforce or other CRM based tools. Highly proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel).