Head of General Partners - London, United Kingdom - Preqin

Preqin

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Overview:

Job overview
This is a key strategic hire for Preqin.

The General Partners Business Unit is responsible for a large proportion of the customer base covering fund managers across all alternative asset classes and placement agents with significant opportunity for growth and expansion.

As Head of General Partners Business Unit you will be responsible for all aspects of the General Partners customer segment at Preqin including but not limited to revenue, data quality, product development and customer retention.

This is a significant opportunity for someone who loves working in a fast-paced environment, with a proven track record in building or leading a successful high growth business and being collaborative and customer focused.

About Preqin
Preqin is an award-winning, independent, research company providing data and intelligence to the financial industry. Investment professionals use Preqin's products to obtain key information for business-critical decision-making. Preqin's clients include fund managers, investors, financial advisors, legal firms, placement agents, and investment consultants amongst others.

Primarily a data company; Preqin is also a fast-moving fintech with a strong growth record and a world-wide staff base.

Owned by our founder, directors, and employee shareholders, we care passionately about our customers, brand and the employees that make it all happen.

Responsibilities:

In this role you will:

As the head of the Business Unit (BU), you will be responsible for the BU vision, strategy, business plans, growth, execution, innovation and budget to ensure strong and sustainable growth of the BU.
Lead a team encompassing Product Management, Product Development, Data Research and Data Operations. You will also work closely with crossfunctional teams that support your BU i.e. Technology, Sales, Marketing and Data Science to ensure strong customer engagement and full alignment across all aspects of the BU vision and strategy.
Work collaboratively across functions, BUs and with customers to identify white space opportunities and elevate the product quality, coverage, capabilities and outreach to a new level.
Instill and drive a culture of customer centricity and ensure all team members fully understand the importance of data quality to our customers.
Report into the Chief Commercial Officer and work closely with the Executive Committee to discuss financial performance, data KPIs and execution of business plans.

Qualifications:

You are a good fit if:

Previous experience working for a top tier strategy consultancy or leading investment bank required
Ideally, experience working at a fund manager or with previous exposure to fund manager capital formation and/or investment processes
A solid understanding of a B2B SaaS revenue model
Successful track record partnering with and influencing executivelevel stakeholders
Ambitious, entrepreneurial, pragmatic, commercial, highly analytical, clear communicator, comfortable with ambiguity
Complete ownership of entire workstreams and very strong attention to detail
Good knowledge and a vision of the use cases of General Partners engaged in alternative assets with regards their data and operational needs
Ability to lead a crossfunctional team as well as influencing other areas of the business with a collaborative approach
Proven ability to develop strategy and execute plans to fulfil strategy
Clear communicator, from talking with customers, team members, the Executive Committee, and companywide presentations
Be results driven and can build strong trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers to deliver the results

Other:

Company Benefits:

The opportunity to work within and develop your career in a very wellregarded international organisation in a fastgrowing sector.
Subsidised Private Medical Insurance via BUPA, after successful completion of 3 months should you wish to.
Interestfree season ticket loans on completion of probation.
A pension plan under autoenrolment which currently requires a minimum employee contribution of 5% of annual salary. This is matched by an employer contribution of 4%. You can opt to contribute more should you wish to. After your 1year service with the company the employer contribution will be enhanced to match your contribution up to a maximum of 10% of your pensionable earnings. This means that if you are contributing the minimum contribution of 5%, after your 1year service, Preqin will automatically uplift the company contribution to 5% of annual salary.
Cycle to work scheme.
Study support of up to £900 per annum for relevant business qualifications and enhanced support of up to $2,500 for CAIA.
Excellent office in London close to Victoria station and the proximity to many shops and restaurants and London's West End.
Companysponsored sports teams.
Winter and summer office parties and a comp