Business Development Lead - Forensics

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

We have a new and exciting opportunity where your role will primarily be focussed on driving the business development activities in forensics and supporting the Partners and Directors building their relationships with law firms, lawyers and other relevant introducers (such as barristers). Your role will also require you to help the wider firm in its interactions with law firms, strategically enhancing our brand in the legal community and driving more work to the firm.

Forensic Role:

• Support the Forensic Partners and Directors with a business development roadmap.
• Enhance Forvis Mazars' brand in the legal market.
• Facilitate introductions to new law firms and unknown lawyers at existing clients.
• Identify and attend industry events.
• Undertake competitor analysis.
• 1-2-1 support for key Go To Market individuals.
• Identifying business opportunities.
• Undertake client listening.
• Development of KPIs & monitoring.
• Directory/Awards submissions.
• Event organisation.

Firm Role:

• Build cross-service line network by working closely with key Partners and Directors.
• Assist in strategy for monitoring relationships and business development activity with law firms nationally.
• Work alongside other key business development professionals at the firm (including the Client Services team).

What are we looking for?

• Currently working in business development focussed towards law firms and legal professionals, with experience of strategically developing relationships with magic circle, silver circle and large international law firms.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen with a mindset to drive innovation.
• Experienced with stakeholder management.
• Able to build relationships and foster trust with intermediaries.
• Able to spot opportunities for forensics and the wider firm.
• Broad knowledge of litigation and arbitration, and of forensic work.

Forvis Mazars is a leading professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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