Start date & duration: September 2025 for 12 months
Looking for a placement with commercial frontline responsibility and the opportunity to work on live client projects? Do you seek to have immediate personal impact? If so, our Client Service Placement program is the right choice for you.
Consider the Client Service Placement program if:
- You thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
- You possess a client-first mindset.
- You excel under pressure and enjoy working to tight deadlines.
- You are gritty, resilient and ready to roll up your sleeves and make things happen.
A day in the life of a Client Service Placement
On placement in the Client Service team, you’ll be the link between our clients and the expert knowledge they seek. Throughout your workday, you’ll work on multiple projects from investors, strategists and dealmakers at top-tier client organizations seeking expert insights to inform their decision-making. This is a communications-intense frontline role requiring you to multitask across parallel workstreams.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Recruiting experts: you will spend a significant part of your day speaking on the phone with experts who are uniquely relevant matches for your clients’ projects, often under tight deadlines.
- Understanding the project and market context and the legal and regulatory environment in which your clients and experts operate.
- Taking ownership of every aspect of your projects, from initiating and managing client-expert communications to meticulously scheduling calls to ensure seamless collaboration between them.
Ensuring success for our Client Service Placements means:
- Giving you an introduction to thebusiness world without being pigeonholed into any one industry or profession.
- Helping you develop transferable commercial and client management skills spanning professional communications, negotiation, persuasion, project and time management.
- Providing you with a mentor, dedicated time with senior leadership, and the opportunity to deliver a business-related project to our co-founder and Region Head.
- A rotation into a different team within our Client Service at the six-month point to increase your learning and development.
- Opportunity to receive a full-time employment offer to return post-graduation. Learn more about our commercial career paths here.
- A unique training curriculum and intense on-the-job coaching, helping you develop highly transferable commercial and managerial skills.
- An inspiring, high-energy, merit-based environment with ambitious peers.
Requirements
- Currently studying towards a bachelor’s or master’s degree and due to graduate in 2027
- Track record of strong academic performance (minimum 2:1 in the UK for example)
- Extracurricular achievement throughout school and university
- Experience evidencing an interest in business is a plus
- Outstanding communication skills
- Fluent (C2 level) English. Fluency in an additional European language is highly beneficial.
Compensation and benefits
- Compensation is £25,000 per annum plus monthly commission based on performance
- 25 annual vacation days, UK bank holidays, and business closure over the Christmas break
- Comprehensive private health insurance coverage and dental insurance
- Opportunity to receive a full-time employment offer to return post-graduation. Learn more about our commercial career paths here.
- Centrally-located office in the City of London with state-of-the-art amenities; option to WFH each Friday.