Business Development & Alumni Manager

Blue Legal is partnering with a leading law firm to recruit a Business Development & Alumni Manager to join its Marketing and Business Development team. This newly created role will combine ownership of the firm's alumni programme with strategic business development support across a portfolio of practice groups, helping to strengthen relationships, identify growth opportunities and drive wider commercial initiatives.

The Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver the firm's alumni strategy, strengthening engagement with former employees and identifying opportunities for referrals, introductions, advocacy and recruitment.
• Manage alumni data, segmentation and reporting, identifying priority relationships and measuring the effectiveness of the programme.
• Plan and deliver alumni communications, events and engagement initiatives to build and maintain strong relationships across the firm's network.
• Act as the lead business development contact for a portfolio of practice groups, coordinating activity across pitches, directories, client targeting, events and thought leadership.
• Work closely with partners and senior stakeholders to identify growth opportunities and ensure practice groups are effectively connected to firm-wide business development initiatives and campaigns.
• Identify and facilitate cross-selling and collaboration opportunities across the firm, sharing successful approaches and commercial opportunities between practice areas.
• Track progress against agreed business development objectives, providing insights and recommendations to support future strategy and improve commercial outcomes.

The Candidate:

• A minimum of five years' business development experience within a legal or professional services environment, with strong commercial awareness and experience working with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent relationship-building, communication, organisational and project management skills, with the confidence to take ownership of strategic initiatives and drive them through to delivery.
• Previous experience with alumni, membership, network or community programmes would be advantageous, although direct alumni experience is not essential.