Restructuring BD Manager / Senior Manager
Hybrid Chatham Maritime Full-time Senior Business Development
At a glance
Senior Business Development role at Kreston Reeves. Chatham Maritime · full-time.
Pay not stated Business Development salary
RoleBusiness Development
SenioritySenior
LocationChatham Maritime
WorkplaceHybrid
EmploymentFull-time
PostedOct 8, 2026
Role brief
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What you'll do
- Use your Kent and South East contacts to source prospects and turn them into work for the team
- Build referral ties with lawyers, accountants, lenders and other professional advisers
- Shape advisory engagements with insolvency practitioners, keeping scope, delivery and budgets aligned
- Lead or support formal insolvency and advisory cases, focusing on strategy and complex matters
- Support pitches, events and team development, while helping steer the service line's growth
What you bring
- At least five years in restructuring and insolvency, including both formal cases and advisory work
- An established referral network in Kent or the South East, with a record of bringing in new engagements
- JIEB qualification, or willingness to work toward it
Who this fits
This suits a commercially minded restructuring professional who wants to combine technical casework with hands-on business development. The role is hybrid in Chatham Maritime and covers Kent and the South East. At Senior Manager level, you take on more responsibility for winning work, client relationships and service line direction.
From the employer
Join our growing Restructuring & Insolvency team and play a key role in generating new business, developing intermediary relationships and contributing to the delivering of restructuring assignments across Kent and the South East. This is a lead-generation focused role, combining business development with technical restructuring and insolvency work. You’ll maintain and build your own network, work closely with our IPs and wider Kreston Reeves teams, and contribute to the continued growth and strategy of the service line.
- Generate new leads and opportunities through your existing network across Kent and the South East.
- Develop and expand relationships with lawyers, accountants, lenders and other professional advisers.
- Build and convert your own pipeline of new business and contribute to the team's fee targets.
- Work closely with IPs to ensure advisory assignments are appropriately scoped, deliverable and managed within budget.
- Manage and contribute to formal corporate insolvency and advisory assignments, with a focus on strategy and more complex matters.
- Develop towards taking, or continue to take, formal insolvency appointments.
- Build strong relationships with clients, intermediaries and colleagues across Kreston Reeves.
- Contribute to pitches, networking events, presentations and other BD activity.
- Contribute to the development of team members through co-working and coaching.
- Contribute to the wider strategy and continued growth of the Restructuring & Insolvency service line.
- At Senior Manager level, take greater ownership of new business generation, client relationships and service line strategy.
- 5+ years' experience in restructuring and insolvency, including formal insolvency and advisory assignments.
- JIEB qualified or a desire to become qualified.
- An established intermediary network across Kent / the South East and a track record of winning new work.
- A strong appetite for business development and lead generation, with the drive to grow your network.
- Strong technical knowledge and experience handling a variety of restructuring matters.
- Commercial awareness, including experience managing budgets, fees and recovery.
- Strong client relationship, communication and influencing skills.
- Experience managing and developing people.
- A collaborative, proactive and commercially focused approach.