Business Development Coordinator Insurance Recovery Group

Position summary

The Business Development Coordinator will handle marketing administrative tasks, help implement the business development tactics for the Insurance Recovery group, and related practice teams/task forces across the Reed Smith offices. This role will also support other firmwide marketing and business development initiatives, as needed. This professional will coordinate requests for client/prospect research and analysis, bio updates, and graphic design from relevant teams, as well as assist with pitches and proposals, the coordination of events and webinars, the publication of social media posts, blog posts and client alerts, the coordination of internal newsletters, the profiling and tracking of with experience and engagements, and other marketing and internal communications and administrative needs.

They will also contribute as a core part of the Insurance Recovery team on a number of shared projects, in addition to independently leading tasks and interacting with attorneys. This includes coordinating a number of practice-specific tasks focused on both internal and external organization and profile-raising, including monthly newsletters and reports, internal meeting coordination, award submissions, and social media promotion.

• Support the Insurance Recovery Group Business Development Managers in various projects as they relate to business development efforts associated with the Insurance Recovery practice group.
• Support global Insurance Recovery Group Business Development Managers in executing business development and marketing efforts.
• Working with others, coodinates pitch materials, presentations and responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs); facilitates presentation preparation by assisting with creating and editing materials.
• Interacting with Insurance Recovery Group Leaders and other attorneys with firmwide business development activities; maintain strong working relationships and a high level of day-to-day interaction with lawyers in Insurance Recovery Group as well as attorneys in related practice groups.
• Edit marketing collateral, including practice area descriptions and attorney biographies for print, website and intranet; facilitate posting updates to firm website and intranet as required.
• Coordinate Insurance Recovery Group webinars, including overseeing scheduling and logistics, working with graphics and events team to develop and disseminate invitations, arranging additional promotion of the webinar through the firm's digital and social media channels, assisting lawyers with related materials, and handling follow-up tasks as required.
• Work with the Insurance Recovery Group and related practice teams/task forces to help prepare and edit drafts of various industry survey submissions, plus maintain repositories of information on practice group accolades and awards.
• Coordinates Reed Smith's participation in, and sponsorship of, local and national conferences. Responsibilities would include handling attorney reservations or RSVPs, and coordinating and submitting advertisements, giveaways, logos, and other materials as needed for sponsor ships and other external activities.
• Assist in coordinating and planning Reed Smith-hosted client seminars and events. Responsibilities would include development of invitations and invite lists, coordinating with venues on logistics, coordinating speaker calls, and assisting with event materials, event promotion, and day-of event needs.
• Manage attorney experience and client information in Firmwide experience databases and client relationship management (CRM) system. Help maintain industry group/specialialty group intranet sites.
• Manage and maintain the collection of information for, and production of, internal marketing materials including monthly newsletters, mailing lists, internal blogs, and capabilities documents.
• Work closely with Insurance Recovery Group attorneys to draft, edit and coordinate posting for the Insurance Recovery Group blog, and Insurance Recovery Group social media platforms, including Linked In and Twitter pages.
• Assist with developing group and strategy meeting agendas and presentations, and…