Associate Funds Clients 2025 Start Dates

This role is in our Client Services business specifically within the Public Equity and Credits vertical.

As an Associate youll be the person driving revenue by enabling our clients to connect to the industry experts that will help them. After your initial training period where youll hone your skills targeting sourcing and screening relevant industry specialists youll start directly managing your own book of business. Youll spend much of your time on the phone both with your clients to unpick what they need from an expert and with industry specialists to find the perfect match. Ultimately its about uncovering what our clients need and digging deep to find out whether the experts we identify know the answers to the questions our clients want to ask.

Responsibilities

• Understand Public Equity client needs and the most relevant experts that could help them.
• Deliver excellent client service by being a fast responsive thoughtful and proactive research partner.
• Engage with industry experts for our clients by reaching out over the phone to understand whether they are the right fit.
• Negotiate and persuade experts to connect with our clients at short notice scheduling calls as soon as possible whilst operating within our industry leading compliance framework. 
• After 45 months youll be driving the longterm performance of your book of business by understanding the clients research needs and monitoring how our content can best help them on a continual basis. 

Development

We are committed to helping everyone at Third Bridge grow and develop this starts from day 1 and continues throughout your career. Our comprehensive onboarding program includes both classroombased and onthejob learning that will teach you the fundamentals of our business how our clients think how to sell our value proposition to secure experts and how to explore a multitude of industry sectors in order to provide an excellent service to our clients.

You will also learn how to identify industry experts as well as developing your communication skills to engage with industry specialists/senior professionals over the phone.

Typically but not exclusively after 4 to 6 months in your Third Bridge journey you will have mastered Specialist Management you will then progress to our Client Engagement Learning Programme to take on client relationship building and project management responsibilities. Youll learn how to engage with investor and management consulting clients drive business results and lead project delivery teams.

The next step in your Third Bridge career could be:

Your promotion to a Senior Associate is based on achievement against performance goals. At this point you will have the opportunity to choose your career track: either;

• Manager Track where you start our Emerging Leaders program to develop your leadership skills and have the opportunity to apply for a Client Services Manager role.
• Client Development Track where you will continue to hone your client engagement skills and unlock greater bonus earning potential.

In your first year you will sharpen your skills in...

Relationship Building: increase your network and build relationships with Public Equity & Credit clients and industry experts by delivering a highend customer experience throughout.

Account Growth: Understanding the Public Equity & Credit client workflow and their longterm investment strategies enabling you to be proactive and grow overall account performance. 

Commercial Acumen: understand and navigate corporate structures sector value chains and key stakeholders. Learn to identify key drivers and dynamics to understand your clients knowledge gaps and engage with industry experts. Gain an introduction to the world of investment and how decision makers in this field think.

Sales effectiveness to develop your Persuasion and Negotiation: learn how to effectively pitch to senior industry executives persuade them to engage with clients and negotiate terms. Youll also learn how to persuade your clients to speak with the experts you know would be a great fit to support their research.

Time Management: execute on multiple projects at a given time manage competing priorities and changing client requests. Prioritisation and context switching are key in order to handle the fastpaced environment we operate in.

Stakeholder Management: sharpen your interpersonal skills as you collaborate with others to share knowledge and develop sourcing strategies when executing on client requests.

Qualifications :

What we look for:

The work is fastpaced you will be working on multiple requests each day with tight timelines and high standards so youll need to organize your time well have great attention to detail and adhere to our compliance framework.

Youll be responsible for building relationships with our Public Equity clients as well as a wide variety of industry experts across different industries and seniority levels so you need to have great communications skills (both written and verbal) and be able to adapt your communication style effectively.

Your projects will span a wide variety of industries and geographies which you will need to understand at a high level. Its important that you enjoy learning are able to quickly understand key information and use this to find the right experts for each project.

An interest in financial markets and the environment that our Public Equity & Credit clients operate in. Keeping up with their direction of research which may require continual and frequent projects. 

Our services are in high demand and we all work to targets so we need people who are excited by a handson high performing and resultsoriented role and who are driven to exceed expectations for our clients.

Teamwork is essential youll be collaborating with colleagues locally and internationally when executing on projects.

With a culture centered around feedback and open communication we look for people who are open to continuous professional development.

A degree with strong academic credentials and/or extensive experience in a clientfacing role.

Additional Information :

The starting Associate pay places you in the top 30 of graduate salaries across industries and it is complemented with an uncapped bonus commensurate with target achievement. You can expect clear performance goals and to be recognized for your contributions. After 2 years of strong results you could transition from being an individual contributor to managing your own team and P&L a huge career milestone. Depending on your aspirations you could also progress to a role in Sales Product or opportunities across our organization.
We ensure every team member is able to bring their best self to work as well as in their lives outside take a look at our benefits:

• Salary: competitive base salary with access to our bonus scheme plus and increase on you base salary on your 12 month anniversary
• Vacation: 15 days (which increases to 20 days after 2 years of service) 
• Learning: personal development allowance of 7250 per year which can be used for any learning programmes you feel would be beneficial for you
• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance Modern Health to focus on mental health. Supplementary housing allowance
• Future and family: pension scheme and vitality private medical insurance
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year 2 annual volunteer days 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and Summer Fridays
• Rewards: get points through our colleaguetocolleague recognition programme to spend on hotels gift cards donations to charity and more 
• Social: weekly optional social gatherings daily breakfast and snacks social events

The successful candidate must by the start of the employment have permission to work in the country they are applying.

We know that to be truly innovative we need to have a diverse team around us. That is why Third Bridge is committed to creating an inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you are not 100 sure if you are right for the role please apply anyway and we will be happy to consider your application. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime