Head of Client Development

Location: Bristol
Salary: £70,000 - £85,000
Call: 0117 321 0588
email: nick@REDLANDSEARCH.COM

This prestigious law firm is looking for an experienced Client Development specialist to work with the firms top 40 clients across Financial Services, Clean Energy, Digital and Real Estate.

This is a great opportunity to join a high growth legal firm in Bristol to lead and develop the client management and development programme. You’ll be joining an environment where the people are entrepreneurial and independently minded and they’re focused on delivering high levels of service to their client base.

Main responsibilities:

  • Scoping the needs of clients so that they identify opportunities that add value to the client's business and help grow the relationship

  • Understanding who the firm should know within the client organisation ("bringing to life the relationship map") to maintain and broaden the relationship

  • Building own client relationships with identified client contacts, typically, procurement, know how, Panel managers. Attending relationship review meetings and regularly networking at seminars and events where appropriate

  • Developing tailored solutions in response to client needs and in line with the investment profile of the client - with responsibility for interpreting solutions in response to client needs and resourcing/making these happen from within the business

  • Client feedback - Facilitates client listening meetings, to gather client feedback annually with identified clients. Ensures that client feedback (be that informal or formal) is documented, communicated and acted upon by the client service team

  • Working with the Executive to look for opportunities to introduce relevant new service and product lines to the client and helps facilitate the sale of that product/service

  • Reporting value: Co-ordination and production of regular relationship review communications (bespoke to the needs of the client), in particular - management information, quarterly relationship review documents, annual highlights, value delivered etc

  • Scoping tailored value add services – liaising with relevant people within the firm to design and deliver appropriate value-added solutions

  • Supporting the Executive - in achieving the vision “to establish, publicise and develop the guiding principles by which the firm will grow profitable enduring client relationships”

  • Account planning – work alongside the CRP/client service team to ensure that an appropriate vision and strategy is in place for the relationship that is jointly developed with the client where achievable

  • Facilitating client service team meetings – to ensure action plans are delivered effectively and at the right pace

  • Coaching the CRP - to develop his or her relationship-building skills and planning effective relationship meetings with identified clients

  • Relationship mapping - responsibility for the relationship mapping of relevant client contacts. This includes ensuring that the team has a thorough understanding of the profile of the relationships the firm has with the client and there is a plan behind each relationship to grow new revenue streams and to broaden the relationship across divisions/areas of the business

Person specification:

  • Strong Client Relationship Management background - ideally within a legal or professional services / B2B environment

  • Strong networking/relationship building skills – to ensure they build networks effectively both internally and externally.

  • Understanding of business proposition – both legal and non-legal so that they can spot opportunities in relation to client needs.

  • Influencing and coaching skills - helping technically talented lawyers, develop exceptional relationship-building skills. The ability to build professional relationships with client contacts.

  • Willingness and ability to challenge – to drive better performance

  • Strong listening/communication skills – critical for delivering Client Listening Meetings effectively

  • Commercial acumen - understand investment vs revenue opportunities and getting the balance right. Knowledge of innovative pricing models/service delivery propositions and financial management of the relationship.

  • Facilitator – ability to facilitate client service team meetings to drive action and progress

  • Completer/finisher – ensures client needs/promises are delivered.

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