Consultant Relations Associate - Investments | Asset Management
Consultant Relations Associate - Investments | Asset Management
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Job Description
About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized awardwinning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
Role Summary:
This role sits within Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) a global investment manager overseeing over $1.4 trillion in AUM and is part of the Consultant Relations team which is responsible for establishing and cultivating partnerships with investment consulting firms. The coverage across the team spans the global consultants to regional focused firms that operate country by country.
This role supports Consultant Relations for Europe the Middle East and Africa with a significant emphasis on the UK. The role of the team globally is to build credibility and to secure formal strategy ratings for our asset management capabilities across all asset classes. It requires collaboration with internal partners focused on distribution and servicing efforts across client segments. The Consultant Relations team focuses a large percentage of their time raising visibility of our firm and capabilities amongst research and field consultants that advise institutional clients.
Given the nature of the Consultant Relations effort the Associate will get exposure to a mixture of Distribution Servicing and Investmentrelated activities. Northern Trust is looking for a proactive collaborative and diligent individual to further strengthen the team.
Responsibilities:
- Support communication with consultants to build trust raise awareness on asset management capabilities and gain an understanding of their clients needs.
- Prepare materials for research and monitoring meetings primarily focused on deepening partnerships with consultants. Lead on meeting followups.
- Respond to enquiries from consultants by providing the requested information/analysis including regular monitoring requests.
- Act as the initial point of contact for consultant or partner enquiries from consultants for asset management products and services.
- Work closely with the RFP team on RFP/RFI activity relating to consultant relations work.
- Work with the Head of Consultant Relations EMEA to track and develop consultantintermediated sales opportunities via Salesforce and manage the related internal reporting.
- Bring perspectives and recommend enhancements in processes products or services based on enquiries received from consultants through their experience.
- Ensure for overall and optimal consultant servicing satisfaction by facilitating and coordinating resources to ensure timely delivery and issueresolution and effectively communicating concerns/needs to NT partners.
Knowledge and Skills:
The successful candidate will benefit from having:
- 35 years of Institutional client servicing and a minimum of 2 years of investment related experience.
- Experience with eVestment and other consultant databases Salesforce Excel PowerPoint and Adobe Writer a plus.
- Development of a broad understanding of asset management services and an indepth knowledge of the complexities the Consultant segment.
- Direct exposure to Consultant Relations Directors globally a view into differing engagement approaches across consultants understanding of how different investment consulting firms are structure and where this is alignment across NTAM investment capabilities.
- Exposure to Client Portfolio Managers across asset classes to build knowledge of NTAM capabilities and differentiators in the market place.
- Market knowledge of asset management competitors and key trends.
- Hands on research problem solving and analytical projects with opportunities to present findings to team members including members of leadership.
Valuable Competencies:
- Analytical and organisational
- Capacity to work on a range of deliverables at once.
- Tenacious and deadline driven
- Ability to manage differing priorities and workflows
- Problem solver cando attitude
- Focused on positive outcomes
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged senior leaders are accessible and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
Wed love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the worlds most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process please email our HR Service Center at .
We hope youre excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
