Private Wealth, Global Strategic Partnerships, Associate in London

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager. It seeks to create positive economic impact and long‐term value for its investors, the companies it invests in, and the communities where it operates by deploying extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Blackstone's assets under management exceed $1 trillion and focus on global real‐estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds.

Blackstone Private Wealth was established to meet the growing demand from high‐net‐worth investors for Blackstone products. Partnering with many of the world's largest private banks and wealth‐management firms, the Private Wealth team packages and delivers the full breadth of Blackstone's alternative product capability to these firms and their clients, providing ongoing product and advisor support, education and training around alternatives.

Based in London, the successful candidate will work in the Global Strategic Partnerships team on all aspects of home‐office client relations and capital raising across the Private Wealth EMEA private‐banking and wealth‐management investor base for Blackstone's closed‐ended and open‐ended funds.

• Proactively support the team in building and maintaining home‐office relationships with private banks and wealth‐management platforms across EMEA.
• Assist in day‐to‐day management of ~20-30 accounts; coordinate follow‐ups from meetings and directly respond to investor requests during pipeline planning, due diligence and ad‐hoc questions.
• Lead the end‐to‐end diligence process both internally and externally.
• Develop and maintain prospective investor lists for specific products; work with wider team to keep content current.
• Participate in various fund‐related initiatives and sales‐strategy planning.
• Collaborate with all functional areas within Blackstone Private Wealth, including Investor Services, Marketing and Product Development, to complete projects and support product initiatives.
• Interface with BX institutional fundraising groups on new fund launches and learn about existing product suite.
• Assist the team with ad‐hoc research projects on new markets and prospect accounts.

• Ideal candidate will have 3‐5 years of professional experience.
• Prior work experience in private equity or alternatives, asset management, investor relations and/or investment banking is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to build and maintain positive and cooperative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, financial and problem‐solving skills.
• Superior organizational and time‐management skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy on work deliverables.
• Desire to work in a team environment, across multiple geographies while also being able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to write effectively and strong communication, presentation and client‐service skills.
• Energetic, self‐motivated, team‐oriented individual who thrives on challenges in a fast‐paced, dynamic environment—often under pressure to meet demanding deadlines.
• Ability to speak at least one other European language (French, German or Italian) is strongly preferred but not required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin or any other category protected by law. The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties or responsibilities may be required of this position. Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.