Business Development Assistant

Teneo; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Business Development Assistant to support their Financial Advisory team. The role involves providing critical insights for client proposals and managing marketing activities in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate possesses strong organizational and effective communication skills, and a keen interest in business development.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates commercial acumen and curiosity about financial markets.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to drive business development activities proactively.

Responsibilities

• Support account teams with insights for proposals.
• Assist in the administration of the New Business Committee.
• Coordinate marketing activities and client events.

Skills

Commercial Acumen

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Strong English Skills

PowerPoint Skills

Excel Skills

Education

Any Graduation

MBA/PG Diploma in Business Management

Tools

CRM

Job description

Any Graduation, MBA/PG Diploma in Business Mgmt

Nationality

Any Nationality

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo s global Financial Advisory (FA) business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, identify certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and or investment goals.

The Clients and Industries team

Within FA the Clients and Industries team is a small, friendly group of 5 people who are responsible for driving and coordinating a broad range of business development activities for our client-facing Financial Advisory teams across the globe. The objectives of the team are to support FAs c.450 fee-earning staff to continually refine their competitive edge by:

• Identifying and triaging opportunities on a timely basis supported by high quality credit analysis and situational research
• Providing hands-on support and critical friend test-and-challenge during the preparation of pitches and proposals
• Promoting knowledge management and connectivity within the entire Teneo network to continually improve the quality and depth of our market-facing sector insight programmes
• Managing the workflow between our client-facing teams and our outsourced research partner
• Managing our research subscriptions relationships and budget
• Liaising with Teneos central marketing and design teams in New York to facilitate the finalisation and dissemination of FA publications and announcements
• Planning the teams flagship marketing events
• Providing administration support for the New Business Committee
• Undertaking a range of other ad hoc activities related to work winning and business development

Members of the C and I team operate seamlessly with fee earning staff in a fully integrated way and work day-to-day alongside a wide range of our client-facing professionals across different areas of our business to ensure our programmes are running effectively and with maximum impact. Being part of this team offers early exposure to senior staff and the whole gamut of Teneo s FA practice globally within a fast-paced, client-oriented and highly collaborative environment.

Role and Responsibilities

As part of the continued growth of the Financial Advisory business, the Clients and Industries team is looking to recruit a Business Development Assistant. This role will report directly to the Director who leads the Clients and Industries team, providing assistance to her across the following areas:

• Support account teams by providing relationship holders with relevant insight and credentials from all parts of our global firm to support specific pursuits and proposals
• Support the day-to-day running and administration of our New Business Committee
• Liaise with our central marketing team around the maintenance and ongoing development of our website and CRM systems
• Support the Senior Business Support Manager and senior client facing staff with the planning and execution of client events
• Help to supervise the day-to-day management of the workflow to and from our offshore research service provider
• Assist with budgeting for research and data subscriptions, manage contracts and access to the FA teams subscriptions
• Assist with annual budgeting for FAs UK marketing function, helping to assess and balance our investment priorities
• Work closely and collaboratively with sector teams, channel teams and other Clients and Industries team members to develop materials which can articulate interesting, compelling views on current market themes
• Help to produce materials for client discussion documents and insight pieces

Desired Candidate Profile

Candidates should demonstrate a high level of commercial acumen and a genuine intellectual curiosity about the business world and financial markets; an interest in business development within a fast-growing organisation; strong organisational skills including effective time management and the ability to work on several projects simultaneously; strong PowerPoint and Excel skills; a willingness to coordinate and drive a range of business development activities in a proactive, timely manner; the ability to think independently; strong written English skills with clarity, succinctness, and accuracy; and a flexible, can-do attitude capable of pivoting rapidly to new priorities at short notice.

Company Industry

• Consulting
• Management Consulting
• Advisory Services

Department / Functional Area

• Business Development

Keywords

• CRM
• Credit Analysis
• Corporate Governance
• Management Consulting
• Workflow
• Finance
• Performance Improvement
• C
• Business Development Assistant

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Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DEI. The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40 plus offices around the world.