Business Development Officer

**Are you the Business Development Officer we are looking for?**

As a **Business Development officer**, you will support our Marketing and Business Development (MBD) team in a broad range of business development projects and activities designed to strengthen and grow the firm’s position on the Belgian and international markets. You will be working closely with two other BD professionals, each supporting different practices of the firm.

The MBD team consists of 7 talented professionals.

**Your tasks and responsibilities**

As a Business Development Officer, you help our lawyers develop their practice and help them bring in new customers. This means:

- Supporting the MBD team and lawyers from all PGs with the drafting of pitch decks (standard proposals and tenders) and presentation documents. You help coordinate different PG’s, track results and obtain client feedback
- Working with the MBD team on the maintenance and organisation of the knowledge databases centralising the firm’s credentials, clients’ references
- Participating in the legal directories research process for rankings and awards by following up on deadlines, drafting submissions and updating the rankings and awards track records for your PGs
- Proactively using the CRM platform to increase and manage BD interactions with prospects and clients
- Sharing and promoting the different PG’s expertise internally to encourage and support cross-selling opportunities
- Supporting the Senior Business Developers in conducting market research into clients, prospects, industry sectors, competitors and sector trends to improve the completion of pitches, legal directories submissions, awards, client/target reports, the organisation of clients/target meetings

**What we offer for your work**
- A gross salary based on your experience.
- Extra-legal benefits such as meal vouchers of €8 per day worked, 13th month, health and hospitalisation insurances, reimbursement of public transportation, a laptop, a smartphone and phone subscription
- Two days of home working/week and telework and internet allocation
- An office easily accessible by public transport (next to Brussels Central Station)
- 6 extra holidays thanks to the 39-hour work week.
- The opportunity to learn and take on challenges in an enthusiastic team of 7 marketing and business development professionals.
- A working environment where diversity, inclusion, work-life balance and innovative thinking are highly valued.

**Your Profile**

As a Business Development Officer, you have a **proactive and hands-on attitude,** and you are willing to go the extra mile to ensure requests are met within the set deadlines. You have an eye for detail and can easily switch between different projects to bring them all to a successful end.

Next to that, you also:

- have a degree in Marketing, Economy, Business Management or other related field
- have outstanding language skills: you have an excellent knowledge of Dutch, French and English
- experience with InterAction/CRM system is an asset.

**Are you our next BD Officer?**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent contract

**Salary**: €2,500.00 - €3,800.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Commuter assistance
- Company classes
- Company computer
- Company phone
- Food allowance
- Hospitalization insurance
- Retirement plan
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- 13th month salary
- Vacation money

**Experience**:

- Business development: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- Dutch (required)
- French (required)
- English (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in 1000 Brussel