Senior Research Associate - Investor Engagement

Private Equity International; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services intelligence company is looking for a Senior Research Associate to join their dynamic team in London. This role involves engaging with institutional investors across the U.S. and South America to gather insights into their private market plans. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and capabilities to build long-term relationships. The role offers opportunities for growth within a diverse and inclusive environment, contributing directly to the firm's success in investment intelligence.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in a research environment or financial services.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct stakeholder interactions with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable representing the team at industry events.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with private markets investment professionals.
• Produce high-quality profiles and content focused on future investment strategies.
• Achieve key success metrics for outreach effectiveness.

Skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Self-motivation

Ability to work autonomously

Ability to build long-term relationships

Inquisitive nature

Job description

About The Role

We at PEI Group are looking for aSenior Research Associate, Investor Engagement to join our welcoming, diverse and growing team in New York. The successful candidate will be tasked with speaking to institutional investors, across the U.S. and South America to understand their private markets investment plans.

The role is results-driven, and the successful candidate will be tasked with interacting with the market and extracting digestible pieces of content for PEI’s client base. The role demands high levels of self-motivation, the ability to lead by example, first-rate organisational skills, excellent verbal and written communication and an ability to confidently interact with senior investment executives in person and online.

Responsibilities

Market interactions

• Building and maintaining relationshipsQuanwith private markets investment professionals through regular phone, email and in person communications.
• Implementing effective strategies to gather a greater volume of highly valuable insights from the global investment community.

Content creation

• Populating PEI’s structured database with information sourced from investors.
• Producing high-quality profiles and investor-intentions written content focused on LPs’ future investment strategies.

Key relationships

• The Senior Research Associate, Investor Engagement role requires maintaining a trusted network of investors that can be re‑engaged over time.
• The successful candidate will also need to build relationships with editorial, sales, events and marketing staff members who are also tasked with working with institutional investors.

Key success measures

• The successful candidate will be responsible for achieving key success measures in relation to the quality and quantity of outreach.
• These measures will include number of outbound calls/emails made and number/quality of successful interactions where proprietary information is sourced.

About You

Requirements

The role would suit individuals who have:

• 1-2 years of professional experience gained in a research environment or in a similar financial services organisation.
• Demonstrated abilityાવીwork autonomously, conducting stakeholder interactions with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability or willingness to learn the dynamics of the private markets industry to have informed conversations with its participants.
• An inquisitive nature and a proactive, methodological, and enthusiastic approach to work.

The role would suit individuals who are:

• Relationship-driven and motivated by building long‑term partnerships
• Team‑oriented with the ability to take an agile work approach and be adaptable to change.
• Keen to be part of a business with high growth expectations.
• Confident to talk to senior private marketovel executives about their investment plans on the phone and in person.
• Comfortable representing the Research & Analytics department at PEייפ's private market conferences, and other external industry events.

About Us

Who we are

PEI Group is a subscriber-focused business intelligence company. With our multi-talented global team of over 490 people, spread across EMEA, USA & Asia, our purpose is to inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. We identify specific high growth, high value investment sectors and themes where deep insight, strong market relationships and active capital flows are critical for success.

What we do

PEI Group provides industry-leading journalism, data, and market insight to subscribing clients via a wide portfolio of specialist brands supported by our robust and scalable digital publishing, analytics, and database platform. We also track the firms and individuals who shape markets and bring client-communities together to enable knowledge sharing, profile building and relationship development through professional networks and events. Wherever our markets are active – in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London and elsewhere – PEI is hard at work examining crucial market forces and shifting investment themes, identifying active investors and their capital allocations, and scanning ahead for regulatory changes, new compliance requirements and other risk factors.

Equal Opportunity Employer and Flexible Working

At PEI we value diverse talent and welcome applications from everyone – regardless of background. We are an equal opportunity employer and our inclusive culture at PEI is reflected in every stage of the recruitment journey. Please inform us at initial stages of the recruitment process if you require any reasonable adjustments and we can accommodate this.

_soft PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.