Business Development Executive - Corporate

The role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic Business Development team as a Business Development Executive for Corporate (M&A, Capital Markets). The role has a primary focus on business development but will require marketing experience to support and drive campaigns, events, and strategic team-wide projects. Reporting to, and working collaboratively with, the Senior Business Development Manager for Corporate.

Role responsibility

You will work across Corporate to support both new and existing client development and will require significant interaction with partners, lawyers and other business services teams. This role will also support sector group activity where needed.

• Provide day to day BD and marketing support to groups within the Corporate Department.
• Assist in the drafting and delivery of BD and sector plans
• Support on firm wide, sector-based campaigns
• Support on capability documents, pitches and experience collation
• Oversee and monitor business development budgets and expenditure
• Drafting and submitting directory submissions
• Provide advice to lawyers on how to raise profile, network and follow up on potential opportunities
• Support the lawyers in producing relevant legal updates, bulletins and blogs
• Work with the central MarComms team to execute marketing tactics and ensure all key channels are used to maximise impact
• Support the management of the Focus Account Programme.

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate:

• Proven experience working in professional services, preferably within the legal sector
• Experience of working within Corporate or Retail. 
• Initiative and proactivity, being able to anticipate stakeholders needs. 
• The ability to think strategically and commercially
• Strong organisational skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Attention to detail
• The ability to interact with and build relationships with individuals at all levels across the business. 

At Howard Kennedy we believe that everyone deserves the space to thrive. We’re committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience that reflects the diversity of both our people and our clients.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we’re committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, transparent, and accessible to all.

We understand that every candidate’s needs are different If there’s anything we can do to make your application journey more comfortable— whether for interviews, assessments, or onboarding—please let us know. We’ll work with you to remove any barriers and ensure our recruitment process is comfortable for you.

Contact our recruitment team at recruitment@howardkennedy.com to discuss any support you might need.

Agency Introductions

Please note that we are not accepting applications via agencies for this role at this time. Before sharing any named candidate CVs, please contact your recruitment representative. If any named CVs are sent from agencies without approval from our recruitment team, they will not be deemed valid introductions, and no agency fee will be paid.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual holiday
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Private Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Staff Introductory Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

With almost 200 lawyers in one location, we ensure our clients have the right team to help them get from where they are to where they want to be. We advise major corporates and institutions as well as entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises which are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. As well as our significant business law capability, we are one of only a few London-based law firms with a large private wealth offering. Our clients find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.

Whether you are an ambitious and talented individual wanting to hit the ground running from day one, or an established professional looking for a new opportunity, Howard Kennedy is the firm where you can really make it happen.

We have earned a strong reputation for our exceptional and uniquely talented people who between them deliver outstanding results for clients. In a firm of our size, our strong team dynamic creates a thriving culture of creativity and entrepreneurialism. Howard Kennedy is a pragmatic and non-hierarchical environment where success is shared, and you are proactively encouraged to thrive at your own pace.

Our distinctive culture is built on fairness and respect. Guided by the firm’s values of talk straight, think smart and be yourself, everyone in the firm holds equal value, and everyone plays their role in supporting, encouraging and inspiring colleagues to do their best work.

At the same time, we recognise and reward individualism, celebrating the diversity of our people and supporting them to grow their practice and drive their own career advancement.

As well as client work, there is opportunity to broaden your horizons at the firm with fulfilling pro bono and charity projects. We have a regular social calendar full of wellbeing activities, charitable and social events too.