About the Role
This role offers a ground floor opportunity to engage with leaders of private equity funds, family offices, private equity backed companies, and privately-held corporations. You will work with an established Director to support the management of a pipeline of acquisition strategies, collaborate with your deal team, and gain significant exposure to high-profile clients and business leaders.
Responsibilities
- Identify attractive companies through primary strategic research.
- Communicate professionally with business owners & key executives over the phone and through other outreach, using a consultative business sales approach.
- Map the investible universe, prioritize the most relevant targets, and devise coverage strategies.
- Write professional correspondence (letters and emails) to key executives.
- Manage a proprietary database of researched companies, logging all activity accurately in our CRM.
- Develop marketing materials to pitch various clients and strategies.
Requirements
- High-energy, entrepreneurial and intrinsically motivated.
- Able to research, prospect, source and build new executive relationships with minimal oversight.
- Able to relate to diverse businesspeople.
- A polished communicator, both verbal and written.
- Willing to roll up their sleeves and provide hands-on support to Associates in pursuing new deals.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
- 1-3 years of sales, prospecting or origination experience.
- Experience making a high volume of outbound calls and emails daily.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Strong attention to detail.
- A self-starter who is also able to contribute effectively within a team environment.
Skills
- Sales
- Prospecting
- Origination
- Data and information sales
- Recruitment
- Expert networks
- Business development
- Professional services
- Client-facing roles
- Outbound calls
- Outbound emails
- Interpersonal skills
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Microsoft Office
- Attention to detail
Location
- City of London, UK
Work Type
- ON-SITE
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1-3 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary plus bonuses on your team's closed transactions.
Benefits
- Opportunity to get involved in the private equity industry early in your career.
- Work towards becoming an established deal maker.
- Culture that inspires learning.
- Encourages autonomous work.
- Fosters team collaboration.
- Rewards hard work and results.
- Sustainable work/life balance.
- Opportunity for a long-term career path.
About the Company
- Founded in 1998, Harvey & Company is a buyside acquisition search and principal investment firm.
- We have advised the buyer on every one of our 1,000+ transactions.
- We proactively reach out directly to business owners and companies that align with specific investment and acquisition strategies.
- Our core team is comprised of 100+ professionals dedicated to specific sectors within industrial manufacturing and services, distribution, healthcare, business and financial services, technology, consumer, and energy.
- Having recently hired our Director, William Harriss, to build out our London presence, we are now expanding the team around them.
- This role is one of the first hires and is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of the foundation of our European origination efforts.
Equal Opportunity
- Harvey & Company LLC is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to maintaining an inclusive work environment.
- All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected under the Equality Act 2010.
- Harvey & Company LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable adjustments to individuals with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable adjustment because of a disability for any part of the recruitment process, please contact sbennett@harveyllc.com for assistance.
