Business Development Assistant

Company Overview

Purcell is looking for a Business Development Assistant to join our London studio. Working closely with our London & South East Leadership team, the Business Development Assistant will support our work winning teams to identify opportunities to enable the continued growth, profile raising and success of the region across multiple sectors. We’re looking for a commercially sharp, results driven and with excellent relationship building skills, both internally and externally, to support in increasing our market presence and revenue in the region’s target sectors.

This is a unique opportunity to support our longer-term strategic ambitions and our positioning within the industry both regionally and nationally. We are a progressive practice, so you’ll need to understand our culture and strategy. It’s an entrepreneurial job, with lots of responsibility and the ability to identify opportunities and deliver results. Purcell is an award‑winning employee‑owned architectural and heritage consultancy practice with a commitment to quality, innovation, and diversity.

We have staff of approximately 300 talented architects, designers, heritage consultants and surveyors across 14 offices, in the UK, Hong Kong Australia. Winners of Architect Employer of the Year 2022. Collaboration is central to our employee‑ownership culture, providing opportunities to work on some of the finest buildings; from meticulous heritage and conservation schemes to bold contemporary design. We offer a rewarding and supportive environment for personal and professional development and our employee‑owned ethos empowers everyone to use their voice.

We believe in creating an equitable and inclusive culture, founded on our values, which celebrates knowledge sharing and our successes, to build an inspiring work environment. It is our distinctive employee‑ownership working culture that has contributed to our status as a World Architecture Top 100 Practice, renowned for our excellence in architecture and heritage consultancy. Our benefits package includes agile, flexible and hybrid working, (a minimum of 3 days in office, up to 2 days WFH) annual leave increasing with long service, life assurance, study sponsorship with paid study leave, sabbaticals, employee assistance programme, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, virtual GP service, subscription fees, company day out, a volunteering scheme and enhanced learning & development opportunities.,

As world leaders of heritage and conservation, Purcell is committed to embracing diversity and equal opportunity within our international teams, reflective of the society in which we work and live. We welcome people from all backgrounds and celebrate differences through our culture of employee ownership.

• Proactively engage with the regional work winning team to encourage and support business development activities and initiatives.
• Schedule and manage regular meetings with key regional team members to keep track of opportunities and business development activities.
• Work closely with the Regional Leadership team to identify new business opportunities for the LSE region across core sectors.
• Support the Regional work winning teams to identify key targets, arrange and, where appropriate, attend external business development meetings to generate leads.
• Assist with the planning and support of targeted business development campaigns.
• Support the development and delivery of the regional business development strategy.
• Create a focused networking strategy around key industry events, including identifying speaking opportunities. Engage with the regional team to ensure regular attendees as well as intel shared and follow ups.
• Assist in organising Purcell hosted events, such as Next Gen networking events, roundtable events, panel events etc.
• Support sector leads on a national level, setting up and minute‑taking national sector meetings to enable shared intel and opportunities across the practice.
• Manage CRM for the Region, including generating and sharing the leads tracker and activity reports, sharing with other regions and teams as appropriate.
• Manage monthly regional business…