Business Development Specialist

**Business Development Specialist* - Investments**:
**What can you expect**:
In this interesting position, you will be working as a Project Manager for our liquid side of Investments as part of our Sales Support Team. In addition to your passion for investments. You find it easy to prepare customized proposals, presentations and reports and work with our team to achieve the extraordinary? Then we are looking forward to meeting you

**What is in it for you**:

- A secure, permanent employment relationship
- An international corporate environment in which diversity, sustainability and social commitment are a priority
- Individual development opportunities + paid trainings for CFA
- Competitive Salary and a bouquet of different benefits and deferred compensation opportunities
- Flexible working hours with home office option

**We will rely on you to**:

- Creating high-quality proposals and due diligence questionnaires
- Preparing materials in support of client and prospective client meetings
- Assembling marketing materials by compiling, consolidating, formatting and summarizing information, graphs, and presentations
- Coordinating with internal teams to execute quarterly updates across a broad array of data that is used to populate presentations, proposals, RFPs, and internal reporting
- Maintenance of Business Development content on common drive structure
- Conducting research relating to global prospects and potential timelines for engagement
- Updating job knowledge by participating in Business Development meetings and other educational opportunities as determined by department leadership

**What you need to have**:

- A relevant university degree (i.e Business Administration, Economics, Finance and Mathematics)
- Between 2-6 years of experience in financial services industry
- Experience in Investments is preferred
- Fluency in German and English, both written and spoken
- Advanced MS Office skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- CFA Charter holders welcome

**What makes you stand out**:

- Strong interest in Investments
- Ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, and deliverables simultaneously
- Creative thinker with high standards of output
- Strong work ethic along with strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Proactive and outcome orientated with the ability to work well as part of a team and develop positive working relationships across the organization
- Ability to work in a fast pace environment
- Ability to deliver a consistently high level of service and performance
- Self-initiative, motivation and ability to improve operations
- Strong organizational and time management skills

**If you are interested**:
**About Mercer**:
Mercer provides insights, advice and technology-driven solutions to help build brighter futures for our clients, colleagues and communities. Together, we’re redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. Mercer’s more than 25,000 employees are based in 43 countries, and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a business of Marsh McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people, with 76,000 colleagues and annualized revenue approaching $17 billion. Through its market-leading businesses, including Marsh, Guy Carpenter and Oliver Wyman, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment

Mercer has been providing investment services to clients for 45 years and is one of the fastest growing investment solutions entities globally with ca. $319bn of assets under our implementation.
- We embrace a culture that celebrates and promotes the many backgrounds, heritages and perspectives of our colleagues and clients regardless of their gender expression or identity, marital or civil partnership status, ethnic origin, nationality, age, background, disability, sexual orientation or beliefs. We are proud of our inclusive culture where everyone feels empowered to bring their whole selves to work and thrive. Learn more about our foundational values, mission and vision for the future by reviewing our _Greater Good Policy_.