Gerson Lehrman Group is seeking an Associate to support clients of the Corporate Team in Singapore. The role will support and manage research inquiries coming from our corporate client firms based in Southeast Asia.
The Associate in the Corporate team is responsible for driving Gerson Lehrman Group’s underlying business processes, fulfilling timely client research requests, identifying, and pitching simple to complex research methodologies suitable for the client’s requirements, and facilitating interactions between GLG’s clients and Council Members:
Specific Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
- Facilitating educational interactions between GLG Network Members and our clients, enable our clients to make more informed and confident decisions. The Associate is tasked with building client relationships, understanding their business model and identifying the best fit GLG solutions for the client. GLG solutions consist of telephone consultations but also may consist of surveys, in person meetings, written reports, in-depth engagements and placements. Clients would be primarily leading professionals from corporates of different sizes across APAC
- Interaction with GLG’s experts to understand their capabilities and knowledge on specific client requests
- Working towards growing GLG client relationships - The Associate will be working towards gaining responsibility of developing relationships with GLG clients, who are primarily leading professionals from corporates of different sizes across APAC through calls, in-person meetings and quality of project execution.
- This relationship development will come with accountability to ownership to grow a book of business comprised of several client accounts, with a focus on establishing and building rapport with users and increasing utilisation of GLG’s offerings
- Team-wide collaboration - The Associate is expected to work closely with our Sales and Business Development team and other research professionals to grow revenue and ensure retention of existing accounts.
- Further Collaborating with GLG’s Events, Strategic Projects and Survey teams to pitch and execute a wide range of products.
We seek bright, positive, and flexible people who also:
- Act with the highest integrity and professionalism in all their endeavors.
- Demonstrate the ability and initiative to handle increasing responsibility over time.
- Think creatively and focus on opportunities for growth.
- Result-Driven: self-motivated in front of given tasks and demonstrate high integrity and professionalism in their endeavours
- Detail-Oriented: Possess strong time management and task prioritization skills with meticulous attention to detail especially under high pressure
- Communicative: Build effective relationships and convey ideas clearly to diverse stakeholders, including clients, network members and internal partners
- Proactive: Take initiative to handle challenges and solve problems and always curious to learn and improve
GLG does not allow employees to trade stocks or any other security that may present a conflict of interest or appearance of conflict of interest. GLG also requires that all employees sign a non-compete agreement with our firm. We conduct background checks on all prospective new hires.
About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG is the world’s insight network. Our clients rely on GLG’s global team to connect with powerful insight across fields from our network of approximately 1 million experts (and the hundreds of new experts we recruit every day).
We serve thousands of the world’s best businesses, from Fortune 500 corporations to leading technology companies to professional services firms and financial institutions. We connect our clients to the world’s largest and most varied source of first-hand expertise, including executives, scientists, academics, former public-sector leaders, and the foremost subject matter specialists.
GLG’s industry-leading compliance framework allows clients to learn in a structured, auditable, and transparent way, consistent with their own internal compliance obligations and the highest professional ethical standards. Our compliance standards are a major competitive differentiator and key component of the company’s culture.
To learn more, visit www.GLGinsights.com.
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
