Insights Associate, Discovery Team (Private Equity)

Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300+ employees located across eight offices.

Discovery is a newly created division within the Third Bridge Group to build the world's most extensive content library for PE/VC-backed companies across the US and Europe. Our content library will allow investors in private markets to identify, track and research investment opportunities. 

You will be joining an exciting new team with an ambitious mandate where you will get start-up experience within an established business & brand.

Reporting to the Manager, you will be responsible for tracking, analysing, and profiling companies by interviewing Industry Experts on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

• Analyse Private Equity-owned businesses through their financials & public newsflow
• Review our Forum & Maps content library to draw unique industry and company insights
• Identify and conduct 1-1 interviews with industry specialists to draw sector/industry and company knowledge
• Develop a company TearSheet from your interviews  
• Form sector/industry knowledge specialization by Geography and apply knowledge to reviewing the quality of TearSheets in your sector/industry
• Advertise specialists’ knowledge and condense industry information into a digestible and interactive Value Chain Map
• Lead and participate in customer feedback sessions
• Support Sales and Account Management team through product demonstrations
• Evolve the product through collaboration with our Forum, Connections, and Maps teams

A successful candidate will

• Be passionate about building a new product and excited by the unknown
• Have demonstrable experience in researching and summarising content 
• Be able to confidently and professionally interact with Senior industry executives
• Have meaningful experience in having telephone conversations with a large number of individuals and lead these conversations with ease
• Have a strong entrepreneurial drive and desire to develop the Private Equity content product suite
• Be a results-driven team contributor who is able to effectively manage their time while maintaining a positive and “can-do” attitude
• Be able to thrive in hybrid remote and in-office environments

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree
• 1-3 years of experience, preferably in the financial services industry 
• Education or work experience directly related to commercial due diligence process would be a plus (examples - Investment Banking, Consulting and Business Journalism)
• Excellent interpersonal and strong communication skills with proven experience in communicating effectively and building relationships quickly over the phone

• Salary: A competitive base salary of $65,000 plus access to an annual bonus scheme of 10%
• Vacation: 15 days (which increases to 20 days after 2 years of service) plus US Holidays
• Learning: personal development allowance of $1,150 per year
• Sponsored learning: reimbursement of up to $2,000 of expenses associated with the CFA
• Health and wellbeing: a variety of insurance plans, including health coverage by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield - Medical Insurance, Dental insurance and Vision plan, plus a personal HSA (Health Saving Account) and Medical FSA (Flexible Spending Account). And also a variety of health and wellbeing events to focus on mental health.
• Future and family: 401K matching up to 5% of your base salary, life insurance, a longterm disability policy dependent care FSA and pet insurance
• Flexibility: work from anywhere for one month per year, 2 annual volunteer days, 2 personal days when life throws you a curveball and 'Summer Fridays'
• Rewards: get points through our colleague-to-colleague recognition programme to spend on hotels, gift cards, donations to charity and more
• Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events
• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)
• Frontline Innovation: your chance to share your ideas for improvement through Hackathons and other events