Asset & Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs Asset Management Retirement Team, Vice President, Defined Contribution Consultant Relations - Midwest Based

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $2 trillion in assets under supervision, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors, and individuals.

This role resides in the Retirement Solutions business within the Client Solutions Group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM). Retirement Solutions includes our Defined Contribution business, our Retirement Intermediary and Insurance business and a dedicated large market retirement distribution effort. Within Defined Contribution, our primary offerings span investment products across the asset class spectrum (DCIO), advisory/OCIO services and digital advice/managed accounts.

YOUR IMPACT

We are seeking a highly motivated, relationship-driven individual for a role in the Retirement Team, and in close collaboration with our Global Consultant Relations team and our Institutional Sales Team in the U.S.

In this role, you will help drive both public and private markets fundraising, stable value fund raising, and positioning our Retirement Planning and Advice solution (managed accounts) with the U.S. DC Consultant channel, while also supporting the day-to-day needs of the Institutional Client Business to win new clients and retain existing ones.

HOW YOU WILL FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL

• Build and develop relationships with DC consultants to further commercial objectives
• Partner with senior relationship managers working with sophisticated DC consultants and plan sponsors
• Participate in Retirement related projects and product initiatives, and assist in evolving the market positioning for select DCIO strategies, CIT launches, stable value evolution, and managed accounts with leading DC consultants
• Organize research meetings, due diligence reviews, and presentations between dedicated DC investment consultants and GS
• Research, track and summarize progress with investment consultants, including: RFI/RFP inclusion, sales opportunities, ratings (informal and formal), and DC market trends
• Develop a close partnership with internal sales teams to commercialize our DC Retirement business strategy

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of work experience in either: consultant relations, institutional (pension) sales, client relations, investment/fund consulting, or as a product specialist
• Very strong interpersonal skills and commercially minded: this role requires the ability to build excellent working relationships with many internal and external parties
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work well within a fast-paced, global team
• Organized with strong attention to detail
• Ability to project manage and execute on objectives
• Salesforce proficiency preferred