Associate, Service - November Start Date

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) is seeking a Business Development Professional to oversee the growth of their Corporate & Government book of business. Building, developing and growing new business and existing accounts you will be responsible for revenue generation, market penetration and expanding GLG’s footprint in the Australian and New Zealand marketplace. 

GLG BDEs in our client-facing offices are responsible for:

• Identifying and bringing on new clients in Australia and New Zealand. Key skills will be the ability to identify, research and understand new business opportunities for GLG, brokering relationships with them, utilising resources from sales enablement, marketing and events, aligning the right mix of GLG products and converting them into clients.
• Partnering with Events, Marketing, Sales Enablement and Service Delivery with the intent to engage prospective clients, drive value to those prospective clients through a sales cycle and ensure that they are aligned to GLG’s business and servicing model, have clear expectations and a firm understanding of how value will be derived from the relationship.
• Take ownership of strategic decisions around product positioning, pricing, and the allocation of internal resources to support sales in marketing campaigns and events. Act as a strategic sales leader, making decisions that balance revenue, client value and return on personal and team effort.
• Developing organised marketing activities. Plan and hold formal client facing and virtual meetings, as well as one on one client meetings with a view to maintaining and growing GLGs book of client business.
• Work as part of a high performing team that balances a performance-standards with fun, collaboration and a human approach to work.
• Enhancing the GLG brand in Australia and New Zealand. Developing relationships across the industry, and acting as a mature, personable face of GLG in the market.

Required Skills:

• Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) attracts employees from the most distinctive professional and academic backgrounds
• Must have 3-5 years of proven sales experience in Australia market
• Consultative, value-based selling approach with experience selling and managing subscription-based relationships
• Genuine interest in sales, building new value propositions and winning in competition
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial skills, with a clear focus on Sales, revenue growth and business profit
• Outstanding communication skills and a team player
• Experience interacting with senior executives within Corporate and/or Government
• Segment experience will be highly valued in Federal or State Government, Banking or Mining

Associate Dubai PSF 

We are seeking an Arabic speaking Associate based in Dubai to support GLG’s PSF business in EMEA. 

Associates are the engine behind GLG’s Insight Network, the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise. The Associate role is a fast-paced, expert-facing role. Associates help drive GLG’s business forward and add value through close coordination with client-facing team members to fulfil our clients’ needs. As an Associate, you will need to quickly understand project requests in collaboration with client-facing teams, identify and recruit new Network Members (experts) and ensure end-to-end delivery of calls on your team including scheduling, to provide a seamless client experience.  

Associates complete a comprehensive training program, receive daily coaching and feedback, and develop strong, transferable business and leadership skills that will help them excel in their current and future roles.   

After achieving specific quantitative and qualitative goals, and depending on the business need, Associates typically progress to Senior Associate roles. Senior Associate roles are client-facing, where expectations include end-to-end project delivery and client relationship-building.  

Key Associate Responsibilities Include​  

Location: Seoul (Hybrid/full time)

About the Team

GLG is seeking candidates to join our Asia Client Solutions team in Korea. Associates in our Corporate Service team, practice work directly to support and manage research inquiries coming from our client firms based in South Korea.

Client Solutions Professionals design and facilitate customized research solutions based upon our clients’ needs, creating innovative solutions on each client assignment.  In addition, Research Professionals will have the opportunity to grow key client relationships and to contribute to the development, structuring, and pricing of products specifically for Corporate clients in conjunction with our Business Development team. 

SAssociates complete a comprehensive training program, receive daily coaching and feedback, and develop strong, transferable business and leadership skills that will help them excel in their current and future roles. After achieving specific quantitative and qualitative goals, and depending on the business need, Associates typically progress to Senior Associate roles.

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to): 

About the role:

Working hours: Aligned to US Eastern business hours (approximately 09:00 to 18:00 ET), Monday to Friday. 

We are looking to hire a Senior Security Engineer to own GLG's threat detection and incident response capability during US business hours. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting to Nick Franzi. The successful candidate will be the firm's primary subject matter expert for detection engineering, security operations, and incident response: responsible for ensuring threats are identified early, investigated thoroughly, and resolved with durable outcomes. 

This individual will build and maintain the systems, processes, and playbooks that underpin GLG's operational security posture. They will work closely with IT, engineering, legal, and business teams across the firm, as well as dedicated platform SMEs within the Information Security team, and will serve as the primary point of escalation for active security events during US business hours. 

What you'll do:

Threat detection and incident response 

GLG’s Financial Services business is seeking an experienced New Business Sales professional to build relationships across the Eastern region of the US, based in our New York office. To be successful in the role they will utilize best in class sales process and pipeline management, leverage internal product specialists to accelerate sales cycles, and consistently onboard new clients for GLG. The ideal candidate will have an intense hunger to win, a willingness to learn quickly and the desire to be part of a performance-oriented, team-centric environment.

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Directly engage and build relationships with Public and Private Equity investment professionals (Analysts, Directors of Research, Portfolio Managers, Principals, MDs) and operations personnel (COOs, CFOs) via phone, in-person meetings and email
• Articulate GLG’s market leadership, premium brand, and value proposition in a differentiated manner
• Exhibit knowledge and command of current trends in Financial Services
• Develop account plans for top named prospects and strategies for a defined territory
• Work creatively and collaboratively with internal colleagues—client solutions, product, marketing, legal, finance—to accelerate sales cycle and close new business
• Spearhead world-class user and team on-boarding sessions with new clients and users

Key performance metrics for this role include core sales activities (i.e. calls/emails, meetings, new client acquisition), opportunity/pipeline management, and newly closed revenue.

Candidates for this position should have a demonstrated a track record of overachieving in a performance-based environment, preferably in the financial services research & data industry or consulting industry. Strong interest in and understanding of the research process for Hedge Funds is vital to this role.

As an Employee Relations Partner, you will lead strategic programs for driving a culture of high performing teams, a culture of feedback and an environment that is fair and equitable across the organization. You will provide advice, support and recommendations for the resolution of critical and complex employee relations activities. You will provide consultation and coaching to employees and managers in areas such as performance management, compliance and investigations, conflict resolution, labor law legislation and termination management. You will partner closely with your HR partners and the business to effectively support employee relations and respective strategic initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the Head of ER, HR partners and the business, you will continue to support, evolve and implement a performance management philosophy and structure for the organization.

• In conjunction with your HR partners and the business, develop and implement strategies to drive a high performing environment and a culture of feedback, to help optimize employee performance and enable continuous learning.