Global Business Development Product Analyst Program

AllianceBernstein's (AB) Global Business Development Product Analyst Program is hiring individuals with 1-3 years of experience. The expected length of the program is 2-3 years.

During the program, Product Analysts will provide internal investment product support for the firm's Equity, Fixed Income, and Multi-Asset businesses. This will involve working closely with AB's business development, portfolio management, and sales teams to help drive new business and support the existing client base. Product Analysts will be responsible for maintaining deep product-related knowledge to assist in the development of marketing and client servicing materials, product development initiatives, responding to client requests on portfolio strategy or market-related events, and providing product support for client-facing teams.

The program will include onboarding covering a variety of topics and systems. Product Analysts will continue to participate in ongoing team training sessions throughout the length of the program.

Any relevant certifications and designations you wish to pursue, such as regulatory licenses and the CFA, will be sponsored by the firm. During the program you will also be matched with mentors who will help with your assimilation into the firm. On a semi-annual basis, you will present what you learned and contributed to the broader Global Business Development Team. During the latter part of the program, you will have the potential opportunity to work abroad for a month in either AB's Nashville, London, or Hong Kong office depending on department needs.

Job Description

Specific responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Prepare and maintain marketing presentation materials: gather market data, portfolio characteristics, performance data, etc. to support product messaging across investment products
• Respond to ad hoc inquiries and requests for investment product views, portfolio attributes, and current positioning across products, as well as our firm's asset class views and outlooks
• Analyze and report on the competitive positioning of our investment products; help support our product development and commercial efforts
• Contribute to monthly portfolio performance commentaries and market outlooks. This involves an understanding of market events and investment products
• Attend relevant investment strategy meetings to stay current on investment strategies
• Actively seek ways to leverage technology for process improvements, presentation standardization, and automation

Job Qualifications & Key Attributes

The ideal candidate should have:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 1-3 years of experience in the financial services industry
• Knowledge of and intellectually curious about capital markets
• Must be very comfortable pulling and analyzing data from multiple systems and using data to drive sales and positioning ideas
• Comfort working with many technology platforms, including a deep familiarity with Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with systems such as Morningstar Direct and Bloomberg a plus
• A team player with highly developed interpersonal skills, including collaboration, negotiation and consensus building. Highly motivated self-starter
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, adhering to tight deadlines and maintaining strategic relationships with internal partners
• Excellent communication skills, Strong writing skills, highly detail-oriented and organized
• Plans to pursue a CFA or MBA a plus
• Creativity and a marketing "sense" is a distinct plus

Client Group Overview

The Client Group has a presence in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is composed of four main areas:

• Sales & Client Services works with financial intermediaries and institutions to offer diversified investment solutions that help clients build and preserve their wealth
• Business Development is a conduit to the firm's investment teams and supports our clients and internal business partners through investment-platform and product content, messaging, competitive analysis and education
• Product Strategy & Development designs, develops and manages the firm's global lineup of investment services and considers clients' evolving needs to identify new opportunities
• Marketing promotes the firm and its services by creating, packaging and distributing content and messaging to engage diverse audiences through digital platforms and initiatives, strategic campaigns, and events

About AllianceBernstein

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment-management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, financial intermediaries and private-wealth clients in major global markets. Our client base includes some of the world's leading institutions as well as private-wealth clients and retail investors. We maintain research, portfolio-management, wealth-management and client-service offices around the world, reflecting our global capabilities and the needs of our clients. Partnering closely with clients, our research and portfolio management teams collaborate across asset classes, regions, sectors, and investment strategies to spark new thinking and deliver superior outcomes. We foster an inclusive environment that offers opportunities for team members to continually learn, develop their skills and take on new challenges to progress in their careers.

We invest in our people and in the communities in which we operate, and we celebrate our diversity to showcase what makes us unique. We offer our talent the opportunity to grow professionally while working on cutting-edge ideas and outcomes in a global culture that operates as a tight-knit community.

If you're ready to innovate and grow your career, join us.

Nashville, Tennessee