We have big growth plans and are looking for people with the enthusiasm to come and be part of this and to develop a career with us.
The role:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Development (BD) Business Partner to join our close knit Marketing team.
We are looking for someone to play a critical part in achieving growth through business development initiatives and assisting the growth of our business. You will work closely with senior leaders of the Marrons team to develop strategies put plans into action.
This role is full of opportunities! We are particularly keen to have conversations with those who take accountability and have the ambition shape the role to be most effective and to drive growth.
To ensure you thrive in the role, we will provide you with the support and coaching you need to grow and shape your career.
Your key duties will be:
- driving business development initiatives forward with the area teams and wider organization, including working closely with our legal colleagues at Shakespeare Martineau
- acting as conduit between the fee earning teams and wider marketing specialists
- encouraging, challenging and coaching partners and other fee earners with their own business development goals
- leading key account planning
- identifying targeting initiatives and developing go-to-market strategies alongside marketing colleagues
- leading relevant sales and business development meetings
- talking to clients and prospects to introduce our teams and services
- using a CRM and client analytics to identify and unlock new work opportunities
- identifying new areas of referral and planning how best to leverage those relationships
- researching partnership/sponsorship opportunities and working with the wider team to create event and activation plans
Skills and experience you will have:
Experience of working as a business development manager in planning, surveying or architecture is essential.
Key competencies you will need:
- passionate about delivering business growth
- excellence at developing relationships at all levels
- highly engaging and a strong influencer, able to collaborate and bring colleagues on board with new initiatives
- a strong self-manager with sound prioritisation skills
- experienced at moving strategy in action
- a flexible approach, to be agile minded and respond positively to change
- a keen eye for spotting commercial opportunities
- full of ideas and initiative
- excellent written and presenting skills
- resilience, where you are comfortable working on multiple projects within a fast paced, fast changing working environment
Meet the team:
Marrons are a nationally growing team of town planning, socio-economic, heritage, and design consultants providing high quality advice and guidance on a wide range of planning and development issues.
We advise on planning matters of all types and scales from leading and co-ordinating large and complex development proposals, to dealing with small scale and householder developments. We act on behalf of major house builders and developers, manufacturers and investment companies, blue chip companies and land promoters, in addition to land and property owners, retailers, local authorities and private individuals across the United Kingdom.
We co-ordinate, project manage and audit planning applications, including EIA development, urban regeneration schemes, urban extensions, site allocation and promotions and strategic planning, housing land supply advice and commercial/retail planning expertise. We provide expert advice and guidance to our clients throughout all stages of the planning process and have considerable experience and knowledge of negotiating with local planning authorities, resolving issues, and delivering planning permissions.
Marrons is part of law firm Shakespeare Martineau. We are part of a large multi-disciplinary team which comprises lawyers, surveyors and chartered town planners.
We are committed to driving positive change in our communities, minimising our impact on the environment (we are now a B-Corp Certified business), and ensuring an inclusive, diverse and supportive culture for our people. We want you to be part of this culture.
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield.
This role will be hybrid with the need to regularly attend our London, Bristol and Midlands based offices.
About us:
It is the people at Marrons that make us so special.
By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams; together we win. As a business, we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
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