Business Development Manager - Dubai - Squire Patton Boggs

Description

Job Title

Business Development Manager - Middle East (12-Month FTC)

Ref No.

49922

Job Location

Dubai

Work Type

Full Time - Fixed Term

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Business Development Manager - Middle East

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Beirut

12-month Fixed Term Contract, Full time

Are you a driven and dynamic Business Development Manager looking for
your next challenge? Are you experienced in delivering an excellent
business development and marketing service within a professional
services or legal context? Then this could the role for you We are
looking for a Business Development Manager to join our global Business
Development & Marketing team and provide support to our Middle
Eastern offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Beirut.

Our Firm

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law
firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business
and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business
solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading
corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and
sovereign nations. With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40
offices across four continents, the firm is renowned for its local
connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal
services across North America, the UK and Europe, the Middle East,
Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

Our Team

Our global Business Development and Marketing team includes over 65
colleagues working together to provide frontline business development
and marketing (BD&M) support and advice at a practice, industry
and office level - much of the work being collaborative and
international in nature.

Our Partners and Lawyers practice on a broad range of areas such as
International Dispute Resolution, Government Investigations and White
Collar Crime, Corporate, Financial Services, Real Estate, Labor &
Employment. We represent global corporates, government departments,
government-owned entities, private businesses, family offices and
individuals across the seven Emirates, as well as international
clients with interests in the UAE and the MENA region. You will join
our excellent support team, who cover everything from secretarial
services to finance and billing, to support our lawyers in delivering
the best service to their clients.

Our Opportunity

The core focus for this role is to provide business development
support to our offices across the Middle East, in Dubai, Abu Dhabi,
Riyadh and Beirut, working with key stakeholders in the groups to
support business growth objectives, identify target opportunities,
develop and coordinate business development plans, and work with
related teams to grow the firm's business base.

Our Middle East practice is thriving, and this is a great opportunity
to work with key clients across a range of practice areas. You'll be
working with senior members of the global BD team, to deliver an
excellent, hands-on business development and marketing support to our
partners and lawyers in the Middle East region.

You

To be successful in the role you will have at least 3 years existing
BD&M experience at a management level, preferably within legal
services or other professional services organisations and ideally at a
management level. You will need to be fluent in English (written and
spoken), and possess strong project management skills, adapting your
work style while working on a number of time sensitive projects. You
will achieve your goals by exhibiting a confident and professional
approach, utilising your excellent communication skills to work with,
and build trust-based relationships with, a wide range of
stakeholders. You will be able to provide counsel on strategy, client
relationship building, and marketing and sales techniques and take a
firm wide view towards inclusive participation across offices and
practices to maximize client relationships and growth and revenue
opportunities. This position will ideally be based in Dubai.

What you need to know

Applications should be made via the careers page of our website: ,
as we are unable to process applications sent directly by email for
compliance purposes. If you are interested in finding out more about
this role, please visit our website or contact
in confidence with any questions you might have. We will be reviewing
applications on an ongoing basis, so please do not delay in sending us
your details

We are an inclusive employer and aim to
ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome
applications regardless of age, neurodiversity, disability, family
or parental status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
or gender identity and expression or other legally protected
characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions
to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone
who wishes to apply.

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