Clients & Markets Business Partner, Insurance
International law firm DAC Beachcroft is currently looking for an exceptional candidate with strategic leadership and business development experience, ideally within the insurance sector, to join its Clients & Markets team as a Business Partner for Insurance.
About DAC Beachcroft
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
In Insurance, our ambition is to be the international law firm of choice for global insurers. To support this, our international expansion has picked up pace in recent years and now, in addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced and ambitious business development expert and leader to help us build long-lasting and collaborative relationships with our clients, identify and leverage opportunities across the Insurance sector and beyond, and to play a pivotal role in taking our Insurance strategy to the next level.
It is expected that the successful candidate will regularly spend time in our London office.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Business Planning
Business Development
Brand, Marketing & Communications
Working with the Marketing & Comms teams, you will formulate and execute marketing plans in support of the sector business plan, including thought leadership campaigns, key sponsorships & collaborations, flagship events, website and social media campaigns.
Ideal Candidate
Ideally qualified to a minimum of degree level or equivalent with previous experience of operating at a senior level within BD & Marketing teams, preferably within professional services (especially in the legal sector), insurance or commercial environment.
Working with us
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!