Fundraising / Strategic Capital

Goldman Sachs; City of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global investment firm in London seeks a Commercial Strategy Associate to support fundraising and client engagement initiatives. Candidates should have 2-4 years of experience, strong communication, and analytical skills. The role involves collaboration across teams to improve fundraising strategies and ensure effective client targeting. Competitive benefits including healthcare, financial wellness programs, and fitness incentives are offered.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and disability insurance

Financial wellness support

On-site fitness centers

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2-4 years of prior work experience.
• High degree of intellectual curiosity on alternatives investments and private markets.
• Ability to generate new ideas and improve existing processes.

Responsibilities

• Support global alternatives fundraising campaign management.
• Guide the creation and delivery of fund launch sales trainings.
• Drive central updates and manage communication across teams.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Team player with excellent interpersonal skills

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About Goldman Sachs:

Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with approx. $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As a primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF)

ACF is a part of the Client Solutions Group (CSG) within Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). ACF manages capital raising and strategy for alternatives investments across the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, GP stakes, and hedge funds / liquid alternatives. Within ACF, team members work within distinct product verticals and partner with investment teams, CSG, and wealth management, to drive and identify solutions for clients.

ACF Commercial Strategy

ACF Commercial Strategy is responsible for client and fundraising strategy, product prioritization, and campaign design across the alternatives investment platform. The team partners with global client leadership and ACF product leads to drive fundraising efforts across strategies, improve client targeting and tracking, and engage with client advisors and clients on our platform-wide offerings.

The Commercial Strategy Associate

Will be instrumental in supporting the execution of commercial initiatives that drive fundraising, client engagement, and cross-team collaboration. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, data-driven, multi-faceted, cross-functional environment and is eager to contribute to the ongoing evolution of commercial strategy across private markets.

Responsibilities

• Support global alternatives fundraising campaign management across all aspects from product launch to post-close analysis
• Work closely with global product specialists across ACF to identify and implement best practices across each product vertical
• Support and participate in fund targeting exercises and regular pipeline review meetings, track and analyse target lists and fundraising pipelines leveraging Salesforce and Dealcloud
• Guide and contribute to the creation and delivery of alternatives fund launch sales trainings and fund launch toolkits
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of global platform materials including a multi-year fundraising strategy calendar, platform presentations, fund one pagers, other key collateral, and ensure its accessibility for all distribution channels
• Drive central updates across businesses including writing weekly update emails, managing confluence pages, prepare materials and talking points for sales calls
• Work closely with the Americas and Asia commercial strategy teams to ensure close coordination and execution across each region
• Partner with Marketing to ensure client events and conferences are commercially impactful
• Conduct competitive analyses and keep pulse on industry and LP trends

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2-4 years of prior work experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter, with ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment and across group functions
• Team player, with excellent interpersonal skills and good judgment
• High degree of intellectual curiosity on alternatives investments and private markets
• Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and work well under pressure
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with proven experience of delivering high quality work product
• Ability to generate new ideas and consider ways to improve existing processes to create efficiencies and support growth
• Investor relations, product management or other private markets background is preferred
• Advanced facility with Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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