Career Opportunities

Marketing/Business Development Manager

The key roles the Business Development Manager will serve are the following:

Business Development and Firm Marketing:

• Supports Marketing Partner in firm wide marketing efforts.
• Prepares and responsible for marketing budget.
• Establishes a branding strategy and ensure that the brand is consistently and well used throughout the firm.
• Provides marketing and business development advice and support to attorneys to assist them in the execution of their individual marketing plans.
• Understand the needs of attorneys and ensures they have the resources necessary to get it done.
• Provides training programs in business development efforts for attorneys and members.
• Identifies opportunities to increase firm and individual attorney visibility.
• Execute, manage, and/or coordinate all business development and client relations initiatives.
• Develop and execute client service programs.
• Creates various collateral pieces for use with the firm’s marketing activities to include ads, mailers and press release materials.
• Assists in updating practice area materials, attorney biographies and various directory listings.
• Oversees with the planning of internal and external marketing.
• Identify and facilitate attorney involvement in industry and community organizations that will enhance respective business development efforts.
• Chairs the Marketing Committee.
• Prepares monthly marketing updates to firm members.
• Maintains excellent relations with media staff.
• Supervises marketing staff.

Practice Group Marketing:

• Assists practice group leaders in developing and implementing marketing plans that focus and support the firm’s marketing strategies.
  
• Assist in preparing and monitoring marketing budgets with Practice Group Leaders.
• Serves as liaison with practice group leaders and conducts research to assess and support cross-selling efforts.
• Actively participate in practice group meetings; report regularly to each practice on their initiatives and results
• Attends various practice group meetings to support business development efforts.
• Prepare responses to RFP’s in collaboration with key attorneys.

Marketing - Technology

• Manages firm’s website and analyzes traffic information.

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, the ability to speak effectively and polished presentation skills.
  
• Must be able to travel to other firm offices as needed.
• Must be self-motivated and independent, well-organized, able to work with a minimum of supervision and to work well with attorneys and staff.
• Organized with a positive can-do attitude.
• Knowledge of client database management.
• Creativity in using various graphic software.
• Internet research skills.

Prior Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in marketing, sales and business development in a law firm or professional services environment.
• Experience leading others in marketing and business development efforts.

Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing.

Mail/fax or e-mail cover letter and resume to:
Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C.
600 Washington Avenue - 15th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63101
Attn: T. Netemeyer, Recruiting Coordinator
fax:  314.241.7604
e-mail:  recruitment@sandbergphoenix.com