The Business Development Associate will focus on activity designed to maximise sales opportunities with clients and prospects. This includes:

• Setting up meetings, often via cold calls
• Generating leads and working closely with sales managers on pre and post meeting sales generation
• Coordination of follow-up items from each meeting including entering high quality call reports into Salesforce
• Handling inbound prospect or due diligence requests
• Proactively managing and resolving internal issues relating to winning business
• Involvement in industry and company events as part of brand-building efforts in the UK.

The ideal candidate:

• High energy, hard-working, enthusiastic, focused and professional
• High quality interpersonal skills, especially influencing skills
• Demonstrable experience in sales (including cold calling and relationship building)
• Experience of engaging with prospects, consultants, clients or colleagues
• Financial / Investment and Asset Management knowledge
• Comfortable discussing financial topics with prospects (product and asset class characteristics, macro themes etc)
• Graduate degree