About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the world’s leading asset managers with approx. $3 trillion in assets under supervision. As a 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.
Alternatives Capital Formation (ACF) is a part of the Client Solutions Group (CSG) within Asset & Wealth Management (AWM). ACF manages capital raising and strategy for alternatives investments across the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, growth equity, sustainability, secondaries, GP stakes, and hedge funds / liquid alternatives. Within ACF, team members work within distinct product verticals and partner with investment teams, CSG, and wealth management, to drive and identify solutions for clients.
ACF Commercial Strategy is responsible for client and fundraising strategy, product prioritization, and campaign design across the alternatives investment platform. The team partners with global client leadership and ACF product leads to drive fundraising efforts across strategies, improve client targeting and tracking, and engage with client advisors and clients on our platform-wide offerings.
The Commercial Strategy Associate will be instrumental in supporting the execution of commercial initiatives that drive fundraising, client engagement, and cross-team collaboration. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, data-driven, multi-faceted, cross-functional environment and is eager to contribute to the ongoing evolution of commercial strategy across private markets.
Responsibilities:
1. Support global alternatives fundraising campaign management across all aspects from product launch to post-close analysis
2. Work closely with global product specialists across ACF to identify and implement best practices across each product vertical
3. Support and participate in fund targeting exercises and regular pipeline review meetings, track and analyse target lists and fundraising pipelines leveraging Salesforce and Dealcloud
4. Guide and contribute to the creation and delivery of alternatives fund launch sales trainings and fund launch toolkits
5. Assist in the creation and maintenance of global platform materials including a multi-year fundraising strategy calendar, platform presentations, fund one pagers, other key collateral, and ensure its accessibility for all distribution channels
6. Drive central updates across businesses including writing weekly update emails, managing confluence pages, prepare materials and talking points for sales calls
7. Work closely with the Americas and Asia commercial strategy teams to ensure close coordination and execution across each region
8. Partner with Marketing to ensure client events and conferences are commercially impactful
9. Conduct competitive analyses and keep pulse on industry and LP trends
Qualifications:
10. Minimum of 2-4 years of prior work experience
11. Strong written and verbal communication skills
12. Self-starter, with ability to work both independently and in a team-oriented environment and across group functions
13. Team player, with excellent interpersonal skills and good judgment
14. High degree of intellectual curiosity on alternatives investments and private markets
15. Flexibility to handle multiple tasks and work well under pressure
16. Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills
17. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with proven experience of delivering high quality work product
18. Ability to generate new ideas and consider ways to improve existing processes to create efficiencies and support growth
19. Investor relations, product management or other private markets background is preferred
20. Advanced facility with Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot