Senior Vice President - Impact Private Equity

AXA UK; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading investment consultancy firm as a senior Private Markets Manager Research analyst. You'll conduct in-depth analysis of private equity and venture capital, drive the research process, and play a pivotal role in supporting junior members of the team. The role offers a competitive salary, extensive career development opportunities, and a wide range of benefits including holidays, pension contributions, and health coverage.

Benefits

Minimum of 25 days holiday

Defined contribution pension scheme

Life insurance covering 4-10x salary

Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Three fully paid volunteering days per year

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Discounted gym membership

Season ticket loan

Qualifications

• A background in private equity or venture capital fund manager research.
• 8+ years of investment experience.
• Experience working directly with clients.

Responsibilities

• Conducting in-depth fund manager due diligence.
• Presenting fund manager recommendations to stakeholders.
• Monitoring fund manager skill against objectives post-selection.

Skills

Analytical skills

Qualitative and quantitative investment evaluation

Communication skills

Project management

Self-starter approach

Education

Professional qualification (e.g., CFA, CAIA)

Tools

Excel

Preqin

Bloomberg

Pitchbook

Job description

Introduction

Discover a world of endless possibilities at Gallagher Benefit Services, where you'll have the power to shape the future of workplaces across industries. As a member of our team, you become the driving force behind positive change, helping clients build environments where employees thrive. Embrace the opportunity to impact lives, unlock potential, and create a legacy of remarkable transformation.

We believe that every candidate brings something special to the table, including you! So, even if you feel that you’re close but not an exact match, we encourage you to apply.

Overview

As an independent, award-winning and B Corp-Certified investment consultancy, we provide a full range of outcome-oriented advice, research and technology to some of the largest pension funds, wealth managers and other institutional investors across the UK and Europe.

Since our humble beginnings, we’ve challenged norms and pushed boundaries to deliver on our mission of helping to make 100 million people financially secure – for the benefit of people and planet.

Our team is home to some of the brightest minds in finance who thrive on seeking innovative solutions to our clients’ complex challenges. And we’re united by our firm’s values: strive for better, empower others, and be generous.

We’re proud to now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Gallagher, a global leader in insurance, risk management, and consulting with a deep commitment to pensions, benefits and investment consulting. Together we create a truly global investment consulting firm with world-class service and the ability to drive outstanding outcomes for our clients. The focus, values and purpose that our clients have come to expect remain unchanged.

Sound like your kind of place? We’d love you to consider joining our team!

Our independent Manager Research team is responsible for researching and selecting best-in-class asset managers from across the globe for our clients to invest in. The team is also responsible for identifying new and emerging themes, monitoring selected managers and delivering bespoke client projects.

How you'll make an impact

The Private Markets research function within the Manager Research team is unconflicted in its whole of market approach and is responsible for researching, selecting and monitoring private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate asset managers across a diversified range of global, emerging and regional private markets strategies. We are looking for you to join our Private Markets Manager Research team, where you’ll be responsible for:

• Conducting in-depth fund manager due diligence through a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, with a primary focus on impact investing in private equity and venture capital.
• Playing a key role in the continued build-out of the implementation options on the impact platform for our clients
• Presenting and articulating fund manager recommendations to the Investment Strategy Committee, clients, prospects and internal stakeholders (such as the Investment Consultant team).
• Closely monitoring the evolution of fund manager skill against their objectives post-selection.
• Actively contributing to the continual improvement of Redington’s Manager Research process particularly on our evolving Dynamic Research practice.
• Working on bespoke client requests for manager selection exercises, new market evaluations, deep dive diligence, portfolio reviews and recommendations.

As a senior member of the team, you would also be instrumental in supporting the ongoing development of more junior team members.

About You

This role is for you if you have:

• A background in private equity or venture capital fund manager research and/private equity investment, be that as an investor or as an investment manager. Alternatively, you currently work as a practioner and are looking to move into a manager research role.
• An analytical mindset – ability to cut through the marketing spin and understand where a manager’s edge truly lies.
• A ‘self-starter’ approach - taking the initiative and having the confidence to express a view.
• Qualitative and quantitative investment evaluation skills
• A strong sense of process and ability to project-manage
• The ability to listen to, absorb, evaluate and communicate complex ideas clearly, verbally and in writing.
• Experience working directly with clients.
• 8+ years of investment experience.

It would be great if you also have:

• A Professional qualification: eg CFA, CAIA.
• Experience working with institutional asset owners.
• Experience using industry tools such as Preqin, Bloomberg and Pitchbook
• Strong, Excel-based analytical capabilities
• Strong presentation skills

Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [e-mail] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.