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Business Development Driver Manager Cooley is seeking a Business Development Driver Manager to join the Marketing and Client Development team. Position summary: This role is part of the Business Development Drivers Team,…
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This role manages the business development drivers team to provide strategic support, oversee campaign activation, and ensure pipeline discipline. The manager is responsible for coordinating between marketing and partners while mentoring direct reports to drive firm-wide growth initiatives.
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in marketing or business development, with a strong working knowledge of CRM ecosystems like Salesforce. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and the ability to travel and work extended hours are required.
Full job description
Business Development Driver Manager
Cooley is seeking a Business Development Driver Manager to join the Marketing and Client Development team.
Position summary: This role is part of the Business Development Drivers Team, which provides strategic and operational business development support that helps drive coordinated BD and Marketing activity and turn priorities into action. Responsible for managing efforts to strengthen campaign execution, account planning, opportunity development, meeting preparation, follow-up, and pipeline discipline, so BD efforts are more focused and consistently executed. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Position responsibilities:
Operational Excellence & Discipline: Strengthen the firm’s business development "ground game" by implementing structured processes for meeting preparation, opportunity development, and consistent pipeline management.
Engagement Strategy & Briefing: Oversee the development of high-impact briefing materials and meeting prep strategies, ensuring partners and BD leaders are fully equipped to maximize every client interaction.
Integrated Campaign Activation: Partner with Marketing to manage lead flow and action items, ensuring that campaign engagement and market outreach are seamlessly converted into qualified opportunities.
Cross-Functional Coordination: Manage the team that serves as the central point of alignment between Marketing, BD leaders, and Partners, ensuring clear handoffs and internal coordination across all support functions.
Execution & Action Planning: Set best practices for translating internal discussions and client meetings into clear, actionable plans, ensuring opportunities move through the pipeline via persistent follow-up and internal accountability.
Pipeline Integrity & Reporting: Maintain a rigorous view of firm-wide priorities and progress by overseeing the tracking of activity, opportunity status, and account actions for senior leadership reviews.
Process Optimization: Continuously refine the firm's approach to BD support, creating scalable systems that increase efficiency and ensure the growth organization operates with maximum impact and minimal friction.
People Leader:
Serve as direct supervisor and mentor to direct reports
Provide day-to-day supervision of direct reports, ensure compliance with assigned work hours and monitor for compliance with all firm and department policies. Manage staffing coverage, review and process time logs/time off requests
Support business professional development and continued educational opportunities
In collaboration with immediate supervisor and central HR, participate in hiring, performance appraisals, counseling, termination and other employee lifecycle events
All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
Ability to travel, as required
5+ years applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
Demonstrated business development skills (e.g. pipeline management, campaign execution)
Strong working knowledge of enterprise CRM ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce)
Preferred:
Bachelor’s degree
Supervisory experience
Prior legal industry or professional services experience
Competencies:
Entrepreneurial by nature
Excellent attention to detail
Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
Takes a consultative approach to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
Strong judgment
Team-player with collaborative spirit
Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
High level of professionalism at all times
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and develop talent
Proactive, analytical mindset
Effective presentation skills
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. EOE.
The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $185,000 - $240,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 21 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP and regulatory matters, and high-stakes litigation.
Cooley has nearly 1,400 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe, and a total workforce of more than 3,000 people.
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