Associate, Private Equity

**Company Description** Company Overview**

Third Bridge was founded on the belief that human insights drive intelligent investment decisions.

To make the right investment decisions, our clients require access to the most relevant experts and their insights - we enable this through private consultations and exclusive content drawn from expert Interviews.

Our clients consist of some of the largest private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds and management consulting firms, who are serviced by a team of over 1,400 employees located across eight global offices.

Third Bridge operates in a global, multi-billion-dollar market with double-digit annual growth and has consistently received accolades for Great Places to Work and the top 100 fastest-growing companies.
**Job Description** Associate European Private Equity**

We are looking for a European Private Equity Associate to help us continue to scale our operations out of Mumbai, getting the opportunity to work with clients across Europe.

**What is Private Equity?**
In a nutshell, our private equity clients invest in companies with the intention of increasing the value of their stake down the line. The insights they get through our experts and content become the basis of their decision to invest in opportunities, or to pass on them.

**ASSOCIATE, UK & European PRIVATE EQUITY**
As an Associate you’ll have opportunities to work with the sharpest minds in private equity funds across the UK and Europe. They will rely on you for access to the most relevant experts and content, which you are responsible for identifying and recommending to them throughout their investment lifecycles. To do so you'll gather a unique set of commercial skills that will help you deliver extraordinary results for both clients and experts, and grow professionally. The projects can be complex, but the impact is meaningful - every day you will get to hear directly from your clients, experts and colleagues about the difference you have made.

**This role involves working with UK and EU-based clients, so follows UK client working hours from 1:30 pm to 10:30pm IST**

**The hats you will wear**
- ** Salesperson**: listen to your clients and tailor our offering in a way that best suits their unique needs. Use your negotiation and persuasion skills to create value for our specialists.
In practice: you will pitch our entire suite of products (content and expert calls) to investors in your book of business, and you will convince experts (from CEOs to technical experts) to speak to your clients about their industry.
- ** Business developer**: understand the drivers of profitable revenue and find your path to grow it. Work with your team to execute strategies for the accounts you are responsible for.
In practice: this could mean calling investors who have never used our services to build relationships and get business from them.
- ** Problem solver**: A client can challenge you with any company name and questions: you’ll break down an industry within minutes, suggest who they should speak with and what they should read.
In practice: you will search for relevant content and vet experts to support your clients at each stage of their research.You will not give them investment advice.

In practice: when a process gets in the way of your speed, you propose an alternate solution and speak with the right people to implement it

**Qualifications** Areas that play to your strengths**
- You must be able to deliver high quality work on a **deadline**. You will be working on lots of active workstreams simultaneously, but that doesn’t scare you - in fact it excites you, and you’re confident in your ability to **multitask** and remain **organised**. Private equity investors are under a lot of **pressure** to make decisions fast, but you stay calm and get things done. If at times your client asks you for help out of hours, or your expert is in a different time zone, you strive to support - your hours vary according to the client project you are involved in, but you prefer that to a routine job. There is **no typical week**as a Third Bridge Associate.
- The Founder’s Mentality completely resonates with you, as this approach is part of our DNA.You’re an **independent thinker**who feels energised by the freedom Associates have to come up with the best solutions for their clients, because you’re endlessly **curious** and often question the way things are done. As long as you are **eager to learn**, we’ll provide you with the resources and coaching you need as you bring value to your clients and experts.
- Your attitude is to **roll up your sleeves** and you enjoy being in the thick of the **action**. It matters a great deal to you to understand how your performance ranks against your own potential and against others, so you continuously **seek** **feedback** to make sure you can be at the top of your game. One of your clients preferring a competitor over you is not an acceptable state of affairs for you - you’re *