Hannah Taylor

Director

UK

Hannah is a specialist in marketing and business development recruitment for professional services firms within the UK and Europe. She joined Carter Murray in 2012, having completed a Master’s degree in Occupational Psychology and, since then, has built up an extensive network across business development, marketing, communications and digital within the professional services sector. She works with firms across legal, accountancy, real estate and management consultancy.

  • Legal

Client Development Manager- Private Equity

Do you have experience within Client Development/Business Development looking for a new role within a collaborative global law firm? This Client Development Manager role will focus on leading the Business Development and Marketing activities for their leading innovative international private equity group. The Client Development Manager will work with a collaborative team to come up […]
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  • Legal

Senior Client Relationship Manager

Do you have experience within Client Relationship/Business Development looking for a new role within a collaborative global law firm? This Senior Client Relationship Manager role will focus on leading on a number of the firm’s key global clients and smaller number of development clients and be the trusted adviser to senior partners for client development. […]
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  • Professional services

Pitch Manager

Are you a proposals/pitch professional looking for an opportunity in a collaborative and highly regarded proposals team in a leading global accountancy firm? This Pitch Manager role will work in a supportive dedicated pitch function that work across firm wide projects. This Pitch Manager role will develop relationships with senior stakeholders across this international accountancy […]
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  • Legal

Business Development Manager- Disputes

This Business Development Manager- Disputes role sits in a leading global law firm and you will work on building out a client and opportunity spotting focus for the overall Disputes function. You will work with a strong global network of Business Development professionals to shape and execute the global disputes BD strategy. The Business Development […]
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  • Legal

Global Head of Pursuits

This Global Head of Pursuits role sits within a leading global law firm and will play a key role in leading the firm wide global Pitch/pursuits strategy and provide the senior leadership skills focused on building a commercial pursuits function. You will sit amongst a high performing senior leadership team and provide insights on improving […]
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  • Legal

Business Development Manager- Disputes

This Business Development Manager- Disputes role sits in a leading global law firm and you will work on building out a client and opportunity spotting focus for the overall Disputes function. You will work with a strong global network of Business Development professionals to shape and execute the global disputes BD strategy. The Business Development […]
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  • Legal

Senior BD Manager- Litigation

This Senior Business Development Manager- Litigation role sits in a leading global law firm and you will work with their world leading Disputes team through opportunity spotting for the overall function, as well as driving forward their strategic objectives. You will work with a strong global network of Associates and partners in the practice and […]
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hannah’s Insights

  • Career Advice

Breaking the conventions: interview with Chris Wilsher, BDM Director at Collyer Bristow LLP

  • Posted April 8, 2025
At Carter Murray, we connect Marketing and Business Development (BD) experts with firms across the UK’s professional services – from growing businesses to the world’s largest organisations. Our own Hannah Taylor sat down with Chris Wilsher – Director of Marketing & Business Development (BDM) at Collyer Bristow LLP – to discuss his role, the skills […]
  • Finding Talent

What top three specialisms are clients looking for when hiring?

  • Posted May 13, 2022
In part two of her professional services market update, Hannah Taylor highlights the top three specialisms that organisations are looking for when hiring marketers into their teams. If you would like more information about marketing recruitment within professional services, contact Hannah. 
  • Professional services resources

Business Development and Marketing in Professional Services: The Future

  • Posted May 13, 2022
In our webinar “Business Development and Marketing in Professional Services: The Future ” Hannah Taylor, Manager from our London team hosted a panel discussion with six Business Development and Marketing experts from across the UK. The speakers discussed how the current economic landscape is impacting their teams, their function and how the future of business development and marketing […]
  • Marketing

Are your marketing tech decisions strategic?

  • Posted May 13, 2022
In today’s digital age, technology and marketing go hand in hand. Companies have access to a range of information, and it would be remiss to not make the most of this data in order to hone their message. Marketing technology has become an integral part of the marketing toolkit in recent years, as brands recognise […]
  • Industry leaders

60 seconds with…Dominic Ayres

  • Posted October 8, 2020
Hannah Taylor, Manager at Carter Murray, recently spoke with Dominic Ayres, Business Development and Client Development Manager at Evershed’s Sutherland, about his experience this year within busines development and marketing as well as his advice for those starting their career within this space. Dominic is a Marketing and Business Development professional with 10+ years’ experience in marketing, client […]
  • Market Update

Navigating Marketing, Communications & Business Development during COVID-19: Law Firms in the UK

  • Posted May 8, 2020
Since March, the United Kingdom alongside the rest of the world has been dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. All businesses, industries and functions, including those in marketing, communications and business development have been learning to deal with a new way of working. We look back over the last month with insight from senior business […]
  • Market Update

New roles being created in 2020

  • Posted March 8, 2020
Hannah Taylor highlights that in order to remain ahead of the curve and keep their marketing approach current, many professional services firms are looking at where their skill set shortages are, adapting their hiring strategies and hiring professionals with experience from industries outside of professional services.  
  • Professional services resources

Marketing in professional services: Q1 2020

  • Posted March 8, 2020
In her latest interview, Hannah Taylor discusses how marketing in professional services is shaping up in 2020.   See more on Professional Services.
  • Industry leaders

Law firm BD & Marketing: Challenges, Opportunities and Career Advice

  • Posted January 8, 2020
Hannah Taylor from our London team recently caught up with Jeremy Ford, who leads European Marketing and BD efforts at Skadden, to discuss how he thinks marketing will develop in 2020. Hannah and Jeremy discuss a variety of topics including what challenges he believes he will face this year through to what questions he would encourage […]
  • Market Insight

Customer Lifetime Value

  • Posted August 8, 2019
Understanding challenges & finding solutions Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is a metric that all businesses would love to be able to easily measure so that marketers can say to the business “x% of customers have been with us for x years and they have downloaded x whitepapers and purchased x amount of products/services with us…and […]