The Role
Manage business development for an architecture studio by leading prequalification and tender submissions, coordinating project teams, researching clients and markets, producing award and communications materials, and expanding relationships through outreach, events, and industry networks. The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, analytical ability, architectural-sector experience, and proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign.
Summary Generated by Built In
Business Development Manager
Schmidt Hammer Lassen is looking for an ambitious Business Development Manager to join our team in Copenhagen on a full-time basis.
As our new Business Development Manager, you will play a hands-on role in shaping new opportunities for our practice in collaboration with partners, teams, and clients across markets, disciplines, and cultures.
What you will do:
- Lead prequalification processes, coordinating materials and internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely, high-quality submissions.
- Support the formation of strong, well-aligned project teams for tenders and strategic opportunities in key markets.
- Research clients, market trends, and relevant background information to identify new opportunities and inform strategic decisions.
- Create engaging business-development and communications content, including award submissions, announcements, and trade-show materials.
- Maintain knowledge of trends and developments within the studio’s practices and markets.
- Strengthening the studios’ network and relationships with collaborators and potential clients.
- Helping expand SHL’s reach and visibility within the industry through outreach, events and industry networks.
We are looking for someone who has:
- A bachelor’s degree in architecture, communication, business or a related field
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience in the architectural sector.
- Experience supporting PQs and pitches for both public and private clients.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate ideas in a way that inspires confidence and engagement. Fluency in a Scandinavian language is an advantage, but not a requirement.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently while contributing positively to a collaborative team with multiple deadlines.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and experience coordinating both internally and externally.
- A strong visual eye and confidence creating clear, high-quality presentation and communication material in Adobe Creative Suite (primarily InDesign).
About Schmidt Hammer Lassen
Driven by a deep responsibility towards our planet, we strive for an architecture that transforms our understanding of the world by giving back to the environment, to communities, and to individuals. We design places of cultural resonance. We embed ourselves in each context to understand the intangible. Regardless of their place in the world, our projects live and breathe effortlessly in their context, making their inhabitants feel truly at home.
We continuously work to maintain a high-quality, well-managed architecture studio that delivers excellent results for our clients while providing strong support, clarity, and development opportunities for our organization.
For more information about our studio: www.shl.dk
Practical details
This is a full-time position based at our Copenhagen studio.
Qualified and interested candidates are encouraged to upload their application and CV through our online recruitment system. We review applications on an ongoing basis and will close the posting once the right candidate has been found.
We do not accept applications submitted outside our recruitment system, and all applications are handled in accordance with applicable data-protection regulations.
Salary will be negotiated based on qualifications.
Questions
Please contact Head of People & Culture, Majbritt Vendelbo, at [email protected].
We look forward to hearing from you!
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in architecture, communication, business, or a related field
- 2+ years of relevant professional experience in the architectural sector
- Experience supporting prequalification processes and pitches for public and private clients
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Fluency in a Scandinavian language
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and contribute to a collaborative team with multiple deadlines
- Strong stakeholder management skills and experience coordinating internal and external stakeholders
- Strong visual eye and confidence creating presentation and communication materials in Adobe Creative Suite, primarily InDesign
Perkins&Will Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Inclusive health benefits extend to same-sex spouses and domestic partners and include coverage for gender confirmation surgery, reinforced by repeated external recognition for LGBTQ equality.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage spans dental, vision, disability, life, and medical insurance, alongside FSA options and related support programs that broaden access to care.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is complemented by performance bonuses that add to total rewards.
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What We Do
Since 1935, we’ve believed that design has the power to make the world a better, more beautiful place. That’s why clients and community members on nearly every continent partner with us to design healthy, happy places in which to live, learn, work, play, and heal. We’re passionate about Living Design, a philosophy that guides our work and emphasizes poetics and beauty; conceptual clarity; research and innovation; technology and tectonics; community and inclusion; resilience and regeneration; and health and well-being. Our team of over 2,500 professionals in 30 studios worldwide provides interdisciplinary services in architecture, interior design, branded environments, urban design, landscape architecture, and more. Our partners include Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects; Portland; Nelson\Nygaard; and Pierre-Yves Rochon (PYR). We’re also part of the Sidara Collaborative, a global network of leading designers, engineers, planners, and consultants.
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