GLG Jobs - Client Service Associate, Austin, TX, United States

Client Service Associate

Austin, TX, United States

GLG is seeking new and recent graduates to join our Client Service Associate Program in Austin, Texas, who have a strong interest in excelling at best-in-class client service in a performance-driven, merit-based, and team-oriented environment.

Our Client Service Associates are the engine of GLG. After completing an initial training period, Client Service Associates spend the first six to nine months as Junior Associates focused on recruiting new experts into GLG’s global membership and learning the client service skills they need to be effective in the role. Junior Associates are promoted to Senior Associates after achieving specific quantitative and qualitative goals. Senior Associates work directly with our clients – professionals at the world’s top corporations, investment firms, management consultancies, and non-profits – to help them learn and make better decisions every day. Client Service Associates do so by facilitating custom learning solutions such as phone consultations, one-on-one meetings, surveys, reports, and consulting engagements with leading experts and executives. Top Client Service Associates can rapidly progress into managerial roles throughout the company as well as leading commercial roles on GLG’s largest client relationships in as short as 18 months.

Key Junior Associate responsibilities include:

Recruiting new experts to join our global membership through targeted and timely outreach by phone, email, and other methods
Interacting with GLG’s experts on a daily basis to understand their capabilities and knowledge on specific client requests
Supporting more senior team members in all aspects of client engagement
Learning our compliance policies and procedures to protect the integrity of client engagements

After achieving the goals of a Junior Associate within six to nine months, key Senior Associate responsibilities include:

Executing custom learning projects for clients
Engaging with clients daily by phone to understand and serve their learning needs and provide exceptional service
Continuing to recruit new experts to join our membership through targeted and timely outreach by phone, email, and other methods
Maintaining accountability and responsibility for client projects and the overall client experience
Collaborating with our Business Development team to grow revenue and ensure retention of existing accounts

As a Client Service Associate, you will learn to:

Excel in a fast-paced, metrics-driven, entrepreneurial, and challenging environment
Communicate with clients to assess and scope their learning needs
Develop strong, transferable business skills – including client service excellence, written and oral communication, client and account management, time management, negotiating, problem-solving, project management, and the ability to achieve commercial targets
Understand and deploy a broad range of custom learning products to creatively support clients
Collaborate with colleagues on and across teams to build and shape a business
Mentor newer professionals

GLG seeks to attract employees from diverse personal, academic and professional backgrounds. We look for individuals who are passionate about our mission to transform how professionals learn and who embody GLG’s values: learning and curiosity, responsibility, courage, judgment, fresh perspective, service, and integrity.

Ideal candidates also have:

Strong interest in developing the skills to excel at client service in a high-volume environment
Superior communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
Ability to work responsibly, both independently and collaboratively as needs warrant, in an ever-changing, and fast-paced environment
Appreciation for the role data and metrics play in growing a business successfully
Impeccable attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills
Receptive to close coaching and feedback
Insatiable desire to learn about new topics
Proficiency in any of the following languages a plus: Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and/or Japanese.
Bachelor’s degree
Recent graduates with 0-2 years relevant experience

About GLG / Gerson Lehrman Group

GLG is the world’s leading platform for on-demand professional learning. Businesses rely on GLG to learn from 600,000+ member-experts; clients look to address complex strategic challenges and make better business decisions within a rigorous compliance framework. Headquartered in New York City, GLG’s 1,500+ employees work from offices in 12 countries. Visit www.GLG.it.

We believe strongly in our mission - and values-driven culture. Our core values drive our success. They are: learning & curiosity, responsibility, courage, judgment, fresh perspective, service, and integrity.

To learn more, visit www.GLG.it.

Notes: GLG does not allow employees to trade public equities or debt..

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