Associate, Credit & Public Equity Clients (April 7 Start Date)

Company Description

Start Dates Available: January, June or September 2025

About Third Bridge

Third Bridge provides expert research services to the biggest private equity funds, consulting firms, credit, and public equity funds across all regions. Our insights from people help them make fast, high-quality investment decisions.

Founded in 2007, we’ve grown to over 1,300 employees across nine offices worldwide, delivering around-the-clock support to more than 1,000 leading investment funds and consulting firms.

Our commitment to fostering growth, driving collaboration, and rewarding bold action makes Third Bridge the ideal launching pad for commercially driven individuals to thrive in the business world.

Job Description

This role is in our Funds business, specifically working with our Public Equities & Credit clients.

Public Equities & Credit is a fast-growing, fast-paced, performance driven environment. As an Associate, you’ll 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 you’ll hone your skills targeting, sourcing and screening relevant industry specialists, you’ll start directly managing your own book of business. You’ll 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, it’s 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.

Would you like to learn more about our early careers Associate position? Take our free virtual job simulation and learn what it is like to work in this role.

Responsibilities

• Understand Public Equity & Credits 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 4-5 months you’ll be driving the long-term 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 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 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. You’ll 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 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 high-end customer experience throughout.

Account Growth: Understanding the Public Equity & Credit client workflow and their long-term 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