Associate, Public Equity

**Company Description**
Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300+ employees located across nine offices.

This role is part of our **Community Team**, within the Public Equities & Credit vertical.

Community is a fast-growing, fast-paced, performance driven environment. As an Associate, you’ll be the person driving relationships by enabling our clients to connect to the industry experts that will help them. During your initial training period, you’ll hone your skills targeting, sourcing and screening relevant industry specialists, including C-Level executives at Fortune 500 companies. After this period, you’ll advance to directly managing your own book of business comprised of major Public Equity and Credit investment funds. You’ll spend much of your time on the phone, both with your clients, to unpack what they need from an expert, and with industry specialists, to find the perfect match. Ultimately, it’s about uncovering what our clients need, digging deep to help them solve their most pressing problems, and connecting them to key thought leaders from every corner of the market.

**Responsibilities**
- Understand Public Equity & Credit clients’ 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 and through professional correspondences, to understand whether they are the right fit.
- Negotiate compensation rates, pitch the Community consultation format, and persuade experts to connect with our clients on short notice, often scheduling calls as soon as possible, whilst operating within our industry-leading compliance framework.
- After 4-5 months you’ll be driving the long-term performance of your own book of business as you develop your own professional skills, deepen your understanding of your clients’ investment strategies, and continuously reinforce how our content can best help their research needs..

**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 classroom-based and on-the-job learning that will teach you the fundamentals of our business, how our clients think, how to sell our value proposition to secure experts’ membership into our network, and how to explore a multitude of industry sectors in order to provide excellent service to our clients.

You will also learn how to identify leading industry experts, as well as developing your communication skills to engage with these senior professionals and Key Opinion Leaders over the phone.

Typically, but not exclusively, after 4 to 6 months in your Third Bridge journey you will have mastered Specialist Management, and you will then progress to our Client Engagement Learning Programme to take on client relationship building and project management responsibilities. You’ll learn how to engage with Public Equity & Credit investor 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 further specialize in your career, pursuing either a;
- Client Development Track, where you will continue to hone your commercial & 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 & Credits clients and industry experts by delivering an industry-leading customer experience while maintaining a high-level of professionalism throughout.

**_ Account Growth: _**Develop understanding of the Public Equities & Credit clients’ workflow and their long-term investment strategies, enabling you to be proactive and grow overall account performance.

**_ Commercial Acumen:_** Cultivate an understanding and ability to navigate corporate structures, sector value chains, and key stakeholders. Learn to identify fundamental 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:_** Develop your persuasion and negotiation skills as you learn how to effectively pitch to senior i