Strategic Partners - ICS (Sustainability), Associate

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Business Description

Blackstone Strategic Partners is a global capital solutions provider, with $82B of investor capital under management. We offer a range of liquidity opportunities to both limited and general partners, including secondaries, GP Stakes and co-investments across private markets. Founded in 2000, we are one of the world’s largest and most established secondaries platforms.

Title

Strategic Partners – Institutional Client Solutions, Associate

Job Description

Strategic Partners is seeking an Associate to join the Strategic Partners Institutional Client Solutions (“ICS”) team. This individual will be a member of the Strategic Partners team and will help manage existing investor relations and portfolio management, with a particular emphasis on Sustainability. The individual will work closely across the Strategic Partners team and Blackstone organization and play an integral role in the capital raising, business development, and investment process. The successful candidate will have strong organizational and analytic skills and exposure to sustainability metrics and KPIs.

Responsibilities will include:

• Assisting in managing investor relations for existing funds
• Working on marketing material creation, updates and distribution
• Responding to investor due diligence requests, with a focus on Sustainability-related questions
• Conducting research on industry trends, with a focus on Sustainability topics such as climate risk and labor standards
• Creating Sustainability reporting for internal and external stakeholders
• Monitoring material portfolio company exposures with a lens on Sustainability metrics
• Maintaining records on Sustainability related marketing claims and KPIs
• Collecting and analyzing Sustainability data, including performing Sustainability diligence on Strategic Partners investments
• Organizing and executing co-investment syndication activities
• Organizing meeting prep (including background research, prospect sensitivities, program intelligence)
• Helping to design new business proposals to meet business and investor objectives
• Conducting research around business development trends or themes by geography and/or client type
• Providing project support to Strategic Partners’ investment and client teams
  
  

Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will ideally have worked in private equity fundraising, investor communications or financial services for 2 years and have experience in institutional sales, investment banking or asset management. Candidates should also have astute commercial sense, excellent communication skills, effective presentation abilities, and possess strong analytical skills. Exposure to Sustainability metrics and KPIs, and familiarity with Sustainability-related reporting standards, requirements and frameworks, including SASB, TCFD and PRI, and a passion for understanding how Sustainability considerations drive value is required.

Strategic Partners seeks candidates who are highly motivated and creative individuals who have demonstrated achievement in prior endeavors and have the ability to work both independently and as a member of a team. We are looking for candidates who add innovative perspectives to our business. A successful candidate will be:

• Client-focused and committed to developing creative solutions
• A driven individual with a strong sense of professional integrity
• Self-motivated and focused on delivering results
• Strong experience across Microsoft Office applications (including Excel, Word and Powerpoint)
• Resourcefulness and thoroughness in conducting financial analytics, research and data compilation
• Excellent project management with the ability to multi-task, and adapt to changing priorities
• Intellectually curious with strategic thinking skills (big picture, long term implications)
• Self-starter and solutions oriented
• Collaborative with ability to create excellent working relationships
• Focused on achieving excellence
  
  

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$145,000 - $160,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.
  
  

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis. Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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