Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Global Consultant Relations - Vice President - London location_on London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world’s leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long term performance. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

YOUR IMPACT

We are seeking a highly motivated, relationship driven individual for a role in the Global Consultant Relations team, within our EMEA Institutional Sales business. In this role, you will help drive both public and private markets fundraising efforts with our global investment consultant relations team and support the day to day needs of the International Client Business to win new clients and retain existing ones. You will cover both global consultants based in UK (i.e. Mercer, WTW, etc.) as well as local UK firms’ consultant teams (i.e. LCP, Isio, Hymans Robertson, etc.). The focus will be both on research consultants as well as field consultants. The position will be at the Executive Director / Vice President level.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Build and develop relationships with EMEA based consultants to further commercial objectives
• Partner with senior relationship manager working with sophisticated, private markets focused consultants
• Run projects and assist in developing the private markets strategy for consultants
• Support fundraises and co investment opportunities by coordinating GS’ responses to requests
• Organise research meetings, portfolio reviews and presentations between investment consultants and GS
• Research, track and summarise progress with investment consultants, including: sales opportunities, product ratings, and market trends in asset allocation
• Develop a close partnership with internal sales teams to commercialise our public and private markets fundraises
• Create and maintain a detailed map of the most relevant EMEA consultants for use in executing the local consultant strategy in coordination with the Global Consultant Relations leadership and the local EMEA sales teams

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR QUALIFICATIONS

• 6 or more years of work experience in either: consultant relations or a similar sales role
• Very strong interpersonal skills and commercially minded: this role requires the ability to build excellent working relationships with many internal and external parties
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work well in a fast paced, global team
• Organised with strong attention to detailAbility to project manage and execute on objectives

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short term disability, long term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also provide state of the art on site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on site child care centers that provide full time and emergency back up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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