At Franklin Templeton, we’re driving our industry forward by developing new and innovative ways to help our clients achieve their investment goals. Our dynamic and diversified firm spans asset management, wealth management, and fintech, offering many ways to help investors make progress toward their goals. Our talented teams working around the globe bring expertise that’s both broad and unique. From our welcoming, inclusive, and flexible culture to our global and diverse business, we offer opportunities not only to help you reach your potential but also to contribute to our clients’ achievements.

Come join us in delivering better outcomes for our clients around the world!

What are the ongoing responsibilities of this position?

• Establish and manage assigned relationships, priorities and improvements with key partners and stakeholders across the firm, including the various SIMs, local and global marketing, portfolio management teams, technology, operations, digital and compliance.

• Help drive template unification for core suite materials across SIMs and regions.

• Monitor materials produced for the Core Selling System that is going to be maintained and ensure it’s delivered in a quality and timely manner by the team.

• Ability to access and discuss current state of deliverables to determine what makes good business sense to retain, discontinue and pause. Having the discipline to make metrics-based decisions in conjunction with leader.

• Become the relationship point for assigned SIMs, regional marketing team, FTS (Operations) and FTT(Technology) for what gets delivered against the investment core suite of materials.

• Help implement story refreshes across regions and materials

• Work with compliance to route and distribute content for all required channels and update SIM content on websites and digital assets

• Participate in pre-quarter-end production planning sessions.

• Assist in product launches

• Help support SIMs with campaigns in regions (non-product)

• Route SIM content for webpages and implement across regions in partnership with the digital team.

• Ability to push-back in a constructive manner on materials developed by the SIMs that would not be used. 

• Work on non- core suite product materials (sales ideas, flyers, snapshots, manually created materials).  Ensure that they remain relevant and continue to add value.

• Act as a strong partner to each SIM to help market their developing investment capabilities.

What qualifications, skills and experience would help someone to be successful?

• Five to ten years in sales, product, marketing or other pertinent industry experience, preferable with a focus on investment management

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and attention to detail

• Proficiency in business desktop applications, primarily Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

• Strong understanding of investment products and industry

• Curiosity and drive to continue to learn and push boundaries in a respectful manner

• Experienced in stakeholder management and building long-term relationships and trust, ideally across multiple geographies and functions

• Capable of understanding clients’ needs / solutions that are being proposed, and how to bring the narrative and solution to life in various formats (web, ppt)

• Able to adhere to schedules, handle multi-tasking, manage project flow with a meticulous mind under deadline pressure

• Proactive and independent team player who enjoys taking initiatives in large variety of tasks and projects

• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, with ability to effectively communicate with senior professionals

• Comfortable and willing to work within a global organization across functions, channels, and multiple time zones upon request

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business Administration or related field. An MBA or relevant postgraduate degree is a plus

Franklin Templeton offers employees a competitive and valuable range of total rewards—monetary and non-monetary—designed to support the whole person and to recognize their time, talents, and results. Along with base compensation, other compensation is offered such as a discretionary bonus, 401k plan, health insurance, and other perks. There are several factors taken into consideration in making compensation decisions including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. At Franklin Templeton, we apply a total reward philosophy where all aspects of compensation