Business Development Manager; Southern Region

The role

The Business Development Manager (Southern Region) is a newly created role focused on driving growth across our Southern offices by building strong intermediary relationships, identifying and progressing new business opportunities, and supporting partners and fee earners with targeted business development activity. You’ll be a confident relationship builder with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels, provide commercially focused guidance, and manage day‑to‑day BD initiatives that support the firm’s wider growth objectives.

A key part of the role will be supporting the growth of our regional offices in Peterborough, High Wycombe, Bristol and Bournemouth by strengthening intermediary relationships and generating opportunities for our tax, audit and advisory teams across our key sectors.

• Work closely with partners and senior stakeholders to develop, implement and maintain strategic business development plans that align with the firm’s priorities.
• Use market, sector and client insight to shape BD priorities, inform targeting activity and identify areas for growth.
• Support the growth of our key sectors, including Landed Estates, Sports & Entertainment, Film & TV, Not‑for‑Profit, Private Wealth, Real Estate, Financial Services, Professional Services, Manufacturing & Resources and Travel, Leisure & Hospitality.

• Lead the coordination and management of the region’s key intermediary relationships, ensuring a structured and consistent approach across offices and service lines.
• Support partners and fee earners in strengthening existing relationships and proactively develop new connections that generate quality opportunities.
• Maintain visibility of activity and outcomes, ensuring follow‑up actions are completed and relationships progress.
• Ensure central intermediary relationships are joined‑up across offices and service lines by coordinating activity with the wider BD team.

• Manage and coordinate client and intermediary targeting programmes, including identifying prospects, building target lists and driving follow‑up.
• Work with partners and client teams to spot cross‑selling opportunities across service lines, ensuring actions are tracked and progressed.
• Support the development of tailored engagement plans for priority clients, prospects and intermediaries.

• Work closely with the tenders team to support the development of high‑quality documents, ensuring key messages and win themes are clearly articulated.

• Build strong relationships with partners, fee earners and wider business services teams to ensure BD activity is well‑coordinated and effectively delivered.
• Act as a trusted adviser to partners on BD best practice, providing coaching, challenge and support where needed.
• Champion best practice in client relationship management and help embed a more proactive, commercial BD culture.
• Work with the wider marketing and BD team to ensure activity is joined‑up, consistent and aligned with firmwide priorities.

• Maintain oversight of BD budgets and track return on investment across campaigns, events, partnerships and relationship activity.
• Report on progress, outcomes and pipeline development, ensuring partners have clear visibility of impact and priorities.
• Use data and insight to evaluate the success of BD initiatives and make evidence‑based recommendations.

We are a friendly, busy Marketing & Business Development Team, based across our offices throughout the UK. We support fee earner colleagues across our UK office network and overseas, providing an outstanding service to our internal clients. We offer support and advice on a wide range of activities relating to external marketing communications, internal communications and business development activities, and we support nine varied National Practice Groups via which the firm goes to market, from Private Wealth to Sports & Entertainment.

• A minimum of five years’ experience in business development within a professional services or financial services environment,…