About the role

  • Executive Sales Coach responsible for coaching partners and senior lawyers on effective selling. Driving business development and advancing opportunities at Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm.

Responsibilities

  • Coaching partners and senior lawyers on effective selling
  • Driving accountability for business development commitments
  • Actively advancing opportunities through an established structured sales process with the goal of growing revenue
  • Expanding existing client relationships and winning new business
  • Work with the Vice Chair, Practice Group Leaders and Business Development Directors to identify areas of opportunity
  • Deliver structured, high-quality sales coaching programs that reinforce the firm’s established sales methodology for partners and senior lawyers
  • Strengthen lawyer accountability to produce consistent, measurable sales outcomes
  • Partner with business development and client teams to improve processes, conversion rates, and the client experience
  • Support customized client and prospect presentations and responses to high-level proposals and opportunities
  • Provide individual coaching, team building, and facilitation of group training
  • Lead formal coaching presentations at firm-sponsored professional development academies
  • Support leadership and change management related to growth initiatives
  • Customize coaching to the legal industry’s regulatory and cultural context

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree and 15 years of relevant legal industry and/or business development experience
  • In lieu of bachelor’s degree, 19 years of relevant legal industry and/or business development experience
  • Juris doctor highly preferred
  • Experience in a law firm required
  • Deep expertise in sales coaching or revenue leadership within professional services
  • Demonstrated understanding of law firm economics and business development
  • Proven track record of creating successful business development plans and coaching law firm partners in business development
  • Ability to create immediate credibility and rapport with senior level law firm management, stakeholders, and marketing and business development professionals
  • Excellent executive coaching and training facilitation skills.
  • Ability to link coaching to measurable business outcomes
  • Exceptional communication, credibility, and presence with senior professionals
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, or ability to learn tech stacks quickly
  • Work collaboratively with teams within and outside the department to drive and delivery on projects and competitive sales opportunities
  • Ability to juggle multiple priorities, by deadline, under pressure, and produce measurable results

Benefits

  • access to three medical plans
  • dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • access to pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts
  • participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible
  • competitive paid time off plan, providing a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm
  • generous paid parental leave benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn, or adopted child(ren)
  • entitled to 11 Firm holidays

Job title

Executive Sales Coach

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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