Senior Business Development Executive

Our Business development team works alongside our partners and lawyers across our sectors, services and offices to support and develop our relationships with clients, delivering an exceptional service and exploring new avenues through which we can help them meet their business needs. Our brand, marketing and digital team help position us as thought leaders amongst our target markets in the areas we most want to be known for, by creating intuitive and engaging collateral, events and campaigns.

As part of the business development team, you will play a hands-on role in contributing to the firm’s success and helping to achieve its objectives. This could be as one of our business development professionals, coaching partners on relationship building, or building our brand as one of our marketing, design or events professionals.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Development Executive to join the Hong Kong Disputes Business Development Team. As part of the team, you will play a hands-on role contributing to the firm’s success and helping to achieve its objectives.

We are looking for someone who can provide high quality BD assistance to the HK disputes practices and the wider Asia team. You will assist in the execution of business development plans, help drive BD initiatives as well as assist in the preparation of pitches, proposals and tender submissions. The successful candidate will forge strong, effective relationships with sector and regional peers as well as advocating the aims of the firm's business development agenda and guiding their implementation.

Skills, experience and qualifications :
• At least two years' experience working in a BD role in a law firm or other professional services environment
• Fluent in spoken and written English and Chinese skills
• Practical, proactive, commercially minded and service driven, with a positive and "can do" attitude
• Be an effective team-player with highly developed interpersonal skills, confidence and resilience
• Have strong organisational skills and attention to detail, as well as the ability to assimilate information quickly and handle multiple priorities; responsiveness
• Knowledge of client management and related systems would be an advantage

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.