Private Capital Group, VP

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Private Capital Group London (VP)

Blackstone is seeking an experienced business development professional to proactively develop new clients and expand relationships with sophisticated family offices in UK. This individual will build a 360-degree dialogue with clients and deliver customized access to Blackstones integrated multi-asset platform. The goal is to establish and deepen relationships with UK clients grow assets under management and effectively communicate the suite of offerings to prospective clients with a credible advanced depth of investment and portfolio knowledge.

• Identify and cultivate high quality relationships with family offices; this includes developing goals objectives strategies and tactics to create meaningful relationships with family offices RIAs and endowments and foundations resulting in a consistent awareness of Blackstones strategies and growth in assets under management
• Understand and effectively communicate complex alternative investment capabilities to existing and prospective clients in a straightforward fashion in both verbal and written form.
• Explain how Blackstones solutions compare to competitors and how these varied products/solutions can help clients fill gaps in their portfolios and reach their investment objectives
• Maintain a high level of prospecting activity including continuous in-person touchpoints with clients to build rapport trust and connectivity
• Collaborate with the firms product and investment teams to facilitate new business onboarding and client cross-selling activities
• Regularly obtain feedback from families on their perspective of Blackstones offerings to inform product positioning future product strategy and business approach
• Partner closely with Blackstones marketing team to develop collateral material and communications focused on education and product positioning
• Support and encourage a team-oriented model with effective communication transparency and trust
• Participate strategically in industry conferences as appropriate
  

Qualifications:

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who work well in a team-driven working group are highly motivated intelligent have sound judgment and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.

The successful candidate must have:

• 6-10 years of directly related sales experience for alternative investment strategies
• Demonstrated track record of success in identifying and building long-term professional and raising assets; experience with family offices RIAs and endowments and foundations
• Possess excellent knowledge of alternative investment strategies (including private equity real estate hedge funds and credit) capital markets portfolio management and asset allocation
• Comfort engaging with clients including family office Chief Investment Officers in solutions-oriented discussions; effectively position the firms varied products and solutions to help clients reach their investment objectives
• Desire to work both independently and collaboratively in a dynamic environment and collaborate across business units
• Deep understanding of trends and buying behavior for institutional quality investors as it relates to their use of alternative investments within existing asset allocation
• Strong communication and presentation skills coupled with the ability to effectively position Blackstone and its capabilities to investors
• Strong organizational skills; ability to prioritize targets and handle a busy calendar of clients meetings
• Client-oriented; leveraging effective relationship management and interpersonal skills with a considerable understanding of how to achieve targeted levels of client confidence
• Self-starter entrepreneurial and goal oriented with a high level of accountability and drive
• Some travel required
• Bachelors Degree; advanced Degree and/or CFA preferred

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments duties or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments duties and responsibilities may be changed at any time with or without notice by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color creed religion sex pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship status age marital or partnership status sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability genetic predisposition veteran or military status status as a victim of domestic violence a sex offense or stalking or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination transfer leave of absence compensation and training. All Blackstone employees including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers are required to abide by this policy.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application please contact Human Resources at (US) 44 (0)(EMEA) or(APAC).

Depending on the position you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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