About this role
Gerson Lehrman Group is seeking to support clients of the Corporate Team in Singapore. The role will support and manage research inquiries coming from our corporate client firms based in Southeast Asia.
The Associate in the Corporate team is responsible for driving Gerson Lehrman Group’s underlying business processes, fulfilling timely client research requests, identifying, and pitching simple to complex research methodologies suitable for the client’s requirements, and facilitating interactions between GLG’s clients and Experts:
Specific Responsibilities Include (but are not limited to):
- Facilitating educational interactions between GLG Experts and our clients, enable our clients to make more informed and confident decisions. The Associate is tasked with building client relationships, understanding their business model and identifying the best fit GLG solutions for the client. GLG solutions consist of telephone consultations but also may consist of surveys, in person meetings, written reports, strategic expert-led projects, and other in-depth engagements. Clients would be primarily leading professionals from corporates of different sizes across APAC
- Interaction with GLG’s experts to understand their capabilities and knowledge on specific client requests
- Working towards growing GLG client relationships - The Associate will be working towards gaining responsibility of developing relationships with GLG clients, who are primarily leading professionals from corporates of different sizes across APAC through calls, in-person meetings, survey, written reports, strategic expert-led projects and quality of project execution.
- This relationship development will come with accountability to ownership to grow a book of business comprised of several client accounts, with a focus on establishing and building rapport with users and increasing utilisation of GLG’s offerings
- Team-wide collaboration - The Associate is expected to work closely with our Sales and Business Development team and other research professionals to grow revenue and ensure retention of existing accounts.
- Learning and upholding our compliance policies and procedures to protect the integrity of client engagements.
- Further Collaborating with GLG’s Events, Research teams to pitch and execute a wide range of products.
Candidate Requirements
We are looking to attract top-performing young professionals who possess intellectual curiosity and commercial drive.
- Experience: 1–5 years of professional experience in consulting, market research, headhunting, or high-growth startup environments. Prior experience serving clients in the life sciences, healthcare, biotechnology or related sectors is highly valued.
- Client-facing project management experience : Experience managing projects or client engagements end-to-end, including understanding client requirements, coordinating internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring timely delivery.
- Commercial ownership : The ability to work towards quarterly performance targets, with an emphasis on driving client engagement, business growth and commercial outcomes.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher from a top-tier academic institution.
- Communication & Drive: Exceptional oral and written communication skills, with the confidence and professional maturity to engage senior executives and investment leaders over the phone, via video, and in person.
- Market Curiosity: A genuine curiosity about current affairs, global developments, economic trends, and key issues shaping the business landscape.
- Problem-Solving & Agility: A passion for client service, commercial problem-solving, and the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment with meticulous attention to detail.
We seek bright, positive, and flexible people who also:
- Act with the highest integrity and professionalism in all their endeavors.
- Demonstrate the ability and initiative to handle increasing responsibility over time.
- Think creatively and focus on opportunities for growth.
- Result-Driven: self-motivated in front of given tasks and demonstrate high integrity and professionalism in their endeavours
- Detail-Oriented: Possess strong time management and task prioritization skills with meticulous attention to detail especially under high pressure
- Communicative: Build effective relationships and convey ideas clearly to diverse stakeholders, including clients, experts and internal partners
- Proactive: Take initiative to handle challenges and solve problems and always curious to learn and improve
GLG does not allow employees to trade stocks or any other security that may present a conflict of interest or appearance of conflict of interest. GLG also requires that all employees sign a non-compete agreement with our firm. We conduct background checks on all prospective new hires.
About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG is the world’s leading platform for trusted human expertise. We connect global decision-makers—from hedge fund managers and private equity partners to strategy leaders at Fortune 500s—with the specific, authoritative voices required to answer their most critical questions.
At GLG, you are an extension of our clients' core teams. You will work at the intersection of industries and global markets, navigating high-stakes challenges across the full spectrum of their strategic initiatives. Operating within the industry’s most trusted research environment, you’ll help our clients capture the nuanced perspectives that drive smarter, faster business outcomes.
We are a global team of pragmatic problem-solvers who mirror the intensity of the markets we serve. If you are driven by intellectual curiosity and a bias toward action, join us in reinventing the industry we invented.
Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc. (“GLG”) is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, race, religion, color, marital status, disability, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by federal, state, or local law.