Senior Business Development Specialist
Marsh McLennan
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: St. Louis • Illinois, Massachusetts, Montana, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $95,500 - $191,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Work closely with senior sales professionals and relationship managers to drive operational activities that achieve sales and growth targets across Mercer’s Wealth Solutions
- Build a strategic understanding of the market and lead day-to-day operational processes related to client retention, expansion, and new business prospecting
- Collaborate with sales and commercial leadership on all aspects of sales and business development activities
- Own key sales deliverables including new business proposals, pitch materials, and ad hoc tasks
- Interface frequently with internal and external senior-level stakeholders and assist senior colleagues specializing in preferred markets or industries during advanced deal processes
- Conduct in-depth, targeted market research using advanced market awareness and competitive insights to identify and target potential business opportunities
- Support business development projects such as product launches, marketing initiatives, go-to-market strategies, and market intelligence
- Assist with pipeline management and align stakeholders to progress sales opportunities
- Liaise with portfolio management, operational, marketing, and consulting teams to deliver high-quality sales collateral
- Champion Mercer’s investment and implementation capabilities through internal and external sales content dissemination and promotion
Requirements
- At least 3 years of investment/asset management experience, including sales support
- Strong motivation to learn and succeed in a business development-oriented role
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously
- Creative thinker with high standards for output
- High proficiency in MS Office tools such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Understanding of the institutional investment landscape and sales process
- Experience preparing business proposals for presentation
Benefits
- health and welfare benefits
- tuition assistance
- 401K savings and other retirement programs
- employee assistance programs
- professional development opportunities
- interesting work and supportive leaders
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
investment managementasset managementbusiness developmentmarket researchpipeline managementsales supportproposal preparation
Soft skills
project managementstakeholder managementcreative thinkingmotivation to learnhigh standards for output