Pitch Content Manager, Global Client Pursuits, Johannesburg

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 Organize 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 Serve as the editorial gatekeeper for content in the firm’s central pitch automation software and centralized 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:

A 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 Flexible, can-do attitude; motivated and enthusiastic; personal drive and energy Excellent written and verbal communication skills, good presentation skills

Location: Johannesburg, Belfast Center, Bogotá, Dubai

Reports to: Director, Global Client Pursuits

Travel requirements: Limited – Mainly office-based

Position type: Specialist

Development framework: Manager