2025 Graduate Programme: Distribution

Division Description:
Insight’s Distribution Division has five main functions:

• Consultant relations: Based in the UK and US, the team focuses on building and managing relationships with global and regional investment consultants, and updates them on new investment ideas as pension schemes continue to seek strategies to manage their evolving liability and liquidity needs.
• Business Development: Engages with institutional prospects including pension funds, local authorities, insurance and sovereign wealth funds and ensures prospects are aware of Insight’s full range of capabilities. The team is based across the UK, Europe, US, Australia and APAC region, and includes specialists focused on particular client segments such as insurance and local authorities.
• Marketing: The Marketing Team, based in London, New York and Pune, collaborate with business areas in two key areas:
- Communications: These teams deliver information to client, consultant and prospect audiences through digital marketing (website, intranet, social, email), investment content (literature, white papers, investment commentary and awards submissions), event management, media relations and internal communications.
- Institutional pipeline management: These teams cover the provision of RFP responses, the production of presentations and the supply of investment data for marketing output and organises data supply to consultant databases.
• Product development: This team works collaboratively across the business to identify and deliver new products using Insight’s product development process and manages updates to Insight’s existing product range.
• Business planning: The team coordinates sales plans and all internal reporting on behalf of
Distribution. It is the business owner for our CRM application, Salesforce, coordinates the business acceptance process and ensures commercial arrangements with Distributors including BNY are operating effectively. The team also delivers market intelligence and competitor research to help generate new ideas to capitalise on emerging investment trends.

Role Overview:
Our Distribution programme is a two-year rotational programme and is a unique opportunity for a graduate looking to begin their career in the investment management industry, with an interest in client facing roles.

We will structure your rotations within the division to give you the opportunity to experience and understand our business so you will:
• Be more effective when you enter a permanent role on completion of the programme
• Build networks and relationships across the organisation
• Gain technical understanding and working knowledge across our business
• Take professional qualifications to support and complement business knowledge
• Establish the foundations in becoming Insight’s future leaders

As part of the programme you may rotate through these areas:
• Consultant Relations
• Business Development
• Marketing
• Product Development
• Business Planning

As part of the Graduate programme, you will be sponsored to undertake the Investment Management Certificate (IMC) qualification. In addition we will support pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) through learning materials, fee reimbursement, and study days for those that wish to pursue.

Each graduate will be paired with a mentor for the duration of the two years, to support you through the programme.

Experience Required:
• Minimum 2.1. (or equivalent) Bachelor’s/Master’s degree or equivalent at an accredited university
• Individuals who are energised by working with other people
• Individuals who are motivated to work in a client facing environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proven record of working collaboratively
• Curiosity about economics, finance or investment finance
• Has extensive experience of using MS Office – including Excel to an intermediate level
• Outstanding communication skills, ability to articulate ideas clearly
• Ability to operate in a changing environment and challenge the status quo, innovative
• Proven record of taking the initiative to act, self-starter
• Inquisitive, strong desire to learn and grow professionally

If you’re interested in joining an exciting, innovative financial services company, please complete your online application by Friday 1st November 2024.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and our final round assessment centre will be held virtually in early December 2023. We therefore strongly encourage you to apply early.

Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other factors protected by federal, state and/or local laws. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at graduates@InsightInvestment.com