Baker McKenzie

The Pitch Content Manager, Global Client Pursuits will be responsible for writing, developing, and managing high-quality and insightful pitch content with engaging descriptions of our firm’s legal, business, and market capabilities and value propositions to address key client issues. The role-holder will join a high-performing global pursuits team that leads on high-value and strategic pitches as well as creates centralized content, templates, and other resources for enabling lawyers and other teams to deliver pitches. 

This is an excellent career opportunity for an individual with business writing skills, looking to specialize in writing commercial solutions, in collaboration with partners, lawyers, legal knowledge management, and business development professionals. This role also offers the responsibility to manage a content coordinator who supports organizing and maintaining centralized pitch content for the firm.

Main responsibilities:

• Write strong value propositions and legal solution descriptions for use in pitch documents, in collaboration with partners, lawyers, legal knowledge management, and business development/ marketing professionals, bringing out differentiated positioning and benefits to clients
• Organise and manage centrally curated pitch content on our pitch automation platform for seamless access across the Firm
• Conduct audits of existing pitch content to streamline, lead, or support efforts to identify gaps or refresh and rewrite content to align with evolving business needs and client/market feedback 
• Engage in proactive, insightful, and continuous content enhancements/ development, including review of resource usage and content collection and structuring
• Collaborate with Global Client Pursuits experts and colleagues worldwide to identify needs for new content, content refresh, and obtain feedback regularly 
• Share best practices and deliver training on best practice in pitch content writing and management
• Serving as the editorial gatekeeper for content in the firm’s central pitch automation software and centralised content SharePoint library, set effective protocols and processes to ensure quality, clarity, creativity, collaboration and consistency across content pieces submitted by different teams 
• Align content usage, maintenance, and access with evolving technology platforms and generative AI features
• Develop and share data analytics and regular reports on pitch content usage trends to identify key content or quality gaps and address them
• Other key content, infrastructure or related projects, as needed

Skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree, with strong business and commercial writing experience 
• Experience in business development in professional services, ideally, law firms, with some hands-on experience in proposal development and/or similar business solutions content writing
• Organization, project management, and ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously; strong attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with senior stakeholders and colleagues, and remote teams of BD/marketing professionals
• Flexibility, can-do attitude; motivated and enthusiastic; personal drive and energy
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, good presentation skills

Location: Dubai (Primary) or Belfast or Tampa Centers; NA Office (Houston, Toronto); EMEA Offices (Madrid, Munich, Johannesburg)

Reports to: Director, Global Client Pursuits

Travel requirements: Limited – Mainly office-based

Position type: Specialist

Development framework: Manager

At Baker McKenzie we are different in the way we think, work and behave. With our team of 13,000 people, including over 6,500 locally admitted lawyers, in over 70 offices worldwide, we have a passionately collaborative community of 60 nationalities and are committed to world-class career development to everyone in every job at every level. Baker McKenzie can offer you both the uncompromising commitment to excellence expected of a top firm paired with a passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment.

Baker McKenzie is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion for all. Our unique international culture is reflected in the drawing together of a worldwide family of individuals from diverse cultures and backgrounds in all of our offices. We encourage the best people - regardless of race, religion or belief if any, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation or age - to fulfill their professional aspirations with us.  We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible experience for all candidates.