Researcher – Hedge fund focus – Exec Search

Sartre Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing search firm in London seeks a highly talented Researcher to establish a research function for its hedge fund recruitment business. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of research experience in an exec search environment, with strong analytical skills and the ability to produce high-quality work. The role includes forming a centralized intelligence database and gathering market intelligence for clients, along with a supportive culture fostering employee development. Competitive salary and attractive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Highly competitive salary and bonus structure

Pension Scheme

25 days annual leave plus extra time over Christmas

Two Duvet days

Two charity days

Company Travel Loans

Ride to work scheme

Free breakfast and fruit

Subscription to Perkbox

Quarterly lunch clubs

Annual Holiday Club

Friendly and relaxed office environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of research experience in a search firm with proven capabilities.
• Ability to produce high quality work.

Responsibilities

• Create systems for obtaining information from various sources.
• Establish centralized intelligence database on market data.
• Gather intelligence for client dissemination.
• Produce research for clients and create candidate bios.

Skills

Experience in exec search environment

Excellent time management skills

Strong analytical skills

Strong written skills

Job description

Researcher – Hedge fund focus – Exec Search

• Internal Recruitment Role

Company Overview:

Sartre Group is a growing Shoreditch based search firm. We are seeking to hire a highly talentedResearchertoplay a key role increating a research function to support its hedge fund recruitment business.

The primary focus of this new function will be creating market intelligence and mapping documents for consumption by Sartre’s client base.

As a company, we believe in the development of our employees and in having a culture where employees can show up every day as their best selves. To achieve this, we have three key values that help us measure everything against:

• Honesty: being humble enough to learn from others, ask for help and sharing challenges.
• Awareness: we cannot change what we are not aware of. This value is key to be able to improve and add value to the clients we are.
• Forward thinking: to give our employees the space to think creatively in helping us to continuously adapt and evolve.

Key responsibilities:

Establishing an Infrastructure:

• Creating systems for obtaining information from internal consultants and external sources,
• Playing a key role creating centralised intelligence database relating to compensation and other key market data metrics

Ongoing services for:

• Gathering intelligence for dissemination to clients on: desk PnL’s, hiring plans and employee compensation
• Desk structures, products traded and creating bios on key personnel
• Producing research for clients and annual graduate/experience level compensation
• Generating candidates on ad hoc basis
• Dependant on the candidate, this can be client facing.
• The position will involve working with a lot of different people internally.
  • Reporting into Managing Director and exposure to senior management

Key Skills Required:

• Experience in exec search environment
• Excellent time management, communication, and organisation skills
• Strong analytical and written skills
• Ideally 3 years + research experience in a search firm with proven capabilities, producing high quality work.
• Highly competitive salary and bonus structure
• Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave with extra time off over Christmas (office shuts) plus;
  • Two Duvet days
  • Two charity days
• “My Time”
• Company Travel Loans
• Ride to work scheme.
• Free breakfast and fruit provided (office)
• Subscription to Perkbox (gives access to a wide range of benefits and discounts)
• Quarterly lunch clubs at leading London restaurants
• Annual Holiday Club for employees that hit their annual targets
• Friendly and relaxed office, reflected with chill out areas, massage chair, an office pool table, X-Box, separate eating areas and games areas