BD Senior Advisor, Private Equity (FTC)

About us: 
Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

 

The Role

We are looking for a BD Senior Advisor, Private Equity to join our Business Development and Marketing function on a six-month fixed-term contract. You will play a key role in delivering BD strategies that drive growth across Private Equity and align with the firm’s wider client, sector and strategic priorities. Using market insights and data-led intelligence, you will identify opportunities, support cross-selling and help strengthen client and internal stakeholder relationships, working closely with lawyers and colleagues across our global BDM function.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Support the development and delivery of Business Development plans for Private Equity, helping to drive growth and align activity with the firm’s wider strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with global BD teams to ensure UK Private Equity initiatives are connected to global strategies, priorities and growth objectives.
• Work across the wider Business Development and Marketing function, including Client and Sector teams, to identify opportunities and support targeted go-to-market activity.
• Deliver Private Equity, sector and client growth initiatives, identifying and facilitating cross-selling opportunities across global practices and product areas.
• Support the development of win strategies, pitches and panel submissions, providing timely, high-quality input to strengthen the firm’s position with priority clients and prospects.
• Use data-led insights and market intelligence to support horizon scanning, opportunity identification, pipeline management and targeted client development.
• Analyse market developments and external trends to help shape BD priorities, initiatives and growth opportunities across Private Equity.
• Support the effective use of MarTech, data infrastructure, global processes and shared services to deliver proactive, targeted insights and efficient BD activity.

 

What we’re looking for:

• Proven business development experience within Private Equity, ideally gained within a legal or professional services environment.
• Strong understanding of the Private Equity market, including relevant transactions, fund formation, portfolio companies and wider market trends.
• Experience supporting the development and delivery of BD strategies, with the ability to identify growth, client development and cross-selling opportunities.
• Strong analytical and commercial skills, with experience using market intelligence, data and technology to identify opportunities and inform BD activity.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders and colleagues across global teams and functions.
• Experience contributing to pitches, proposals and client-facing materials, alongside an understanding of global professional services processes and shared service models.

 

What's on offer:

This role can be based in our London offices, with a hybrid working model available.

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments
  

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services
  

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

Business Development, Business Partner Support, Client Presentation Strategy, Communication, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System, Domain Expertise, Insight Generation, New Business Development, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Business Planning

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders (lateralrecruitment@linklaters.com for legal roles or ukbtrecruitment@linklaters.com for business team roles).