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Where performing to your highest ability, unlocks equal access to opportunities to learn, thrive and grow.\nWe combine deep legal expertise and commercial intelligence to grow, transform, protect, and defend our clients' businesses, across every critical moment.\nWe operate in the sectors and regions that matter to our clients. With forward-thinking insights and innovative, tech-enabled solutions that combine deep knowledge of their sectors and markets.\nYou’ll build connections and work with colleagues as one global team. You’ll unlock opportunities for clients, across borders, cultures, legal and commercial disciplines.\nJoin us to work with colleagues as one global team - empowering each other to be exceptional and create advantage for our clients.\nOur India team is a well-established and integral part of the firm’s global operations, delivering high-value support across a wide spectrum of functions. With over 800 business professionals based in Gurugram and Hyderabad, we’ve been driving operational excellence and innovation for more than 15 years.\nWe contribute to global success in areas such as Information Technology, Finance, Human Resources, Risk & Compliance, Legal Support, Research & Knowledge, Document Production, Virtual Executive Assistance, Programme Management, Client & Market Development, and Continuous Improvement.\n The role\nOur Client & Market Development (CMD) function is pivotal in making the firm's vision a reality. CMD teams work across the firm, both strategically and operationally, with partners to (i) raise awareness, establish credibility and strengthen our brand in key markets, industries, and product areas; (ii) win new business; and (iii) protect and grow profitable relationships with priority clients.\nThe purpose of this role is to work with the CMD Operations team in Delhi and support the team of Client Development Coordinators (CDCs) across a range of tactical and operations tasks related to the management and development of Global Strategic Clients (GSCs) and sectors in which GSCs operate. This role essentially involves supporting the team of CDCs to deliver account management services, including but not limited to, preparation of various internal and external reports, organizing meetings, meeting presentations, client research on open sources and providing administrative support when needed.\nKey Responsibilities\nThe responsibilities of the CMD Apprentice can be broadly split into the following key areas:\nUnderstand the role of a BD in driving the growth of the top tier clients of the firm\nBuild an understanding of the internal tools and databases and to use them efficiently in producing various reports\nProvide administrative support, assist with building reports on MS Excel and PPT\nResearch and share top news for clients\nAssist with housekeeping tasks to enable seamless day-to-day functioning thereby saving a CDC time\nCoordinate with various teams within Delhi / global offices in fetching the right information required to do a job\nBuild a good rapport within the BRS teams internally and with other teams in Delhi office\nUnderstand the implementation of various procedures around the delivery of all reporting requirements\nManage time efficiently in order to support the existing CDCs in accomplishing their task at hand\n Experience\nYou will have general software skills (Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint)\nGood interpersonal and written skills\nGood communication skills\nYou will need to manage and prioritise multiple projects and respond quickly to requests which have a short turnaround time\nYou will be confident, resilient and focused\nBachelor's degree or equivalent\n Equal Opportunities\nAt Clifford Chance, we understand that our true asset is our people. Inclusion is good for our team and their families, our firm and society.\nWe are committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age. This applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.\nWe have a variety of flourishing employee networks. These networks are a place for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change wherever they see an opportunity for improvement.\nOur goal is to deliver an equality of opportunity, an equality of aspiration and an equality of experience to everyone who works in our firm.\nFind out more about our inclusive culture here.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4872,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Legal Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T23:55:44Z"}],"liveness":{"score":60,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.602,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":16,"reasons":["conf:5","stale_co","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/clifford-chance-apprentice-cmd","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/clifford-chance-apprentice-cmd.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T04:11:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3930,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1070,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}