About the Team

Join our dynamic Southeast Asia Private Markets team of 9 professionals based in Singapore. You'll report to the Senior Manager, Client Solutions, Private Markets, and work across functions, teams, and geographies to serve leading PE/VC clients across the region.

Job Summary

We're seeking a Senior/ Associate to help us drive ambitious growth by delighting our private market clients across Southeast Asia. In this role, you'll have direct exposure to leading private equity and venture capital investors across APAC while connecting them with world-class experts across industries—an unparalleled opportunity to build your network and deepen your understanding of investment decision-making.

Specific Responsibilities Include:

• Execute time-sensitive projects to support GLG's clients in making informed investment decisions. Analyze client requests, build and qualify primary populations of topic experts, and deliver insights that directly impact investment theses.
• Develop relationships with GLG's most respected thought leaders across sectors. Recruit new senior executives and leading consultants into the GLG Councils through research, networking, and direct outreach.
• Organize and host client event programming, including small group conversations between GLG Network Members and clients, and coordinate private meetings at client offices.
• Grow GLG client relationships by engaging directly with leading investment professionals across APAC through in-person meetings, project execution, and ongoing interactions.
• Collaborate closely with overseas account teams to implement account plans to drive revenue growth and client satisfaction.

Requirement 

• Business-level fluency (written and oral) in English and Mandarin (additional language capabilities are highly valued) as this role will work with clients and counterparts from Greater China
• Client-first mentality and flexibility to accommodate urgent requests and global schedules
• Confident, proactive communication style with comfort building relationships via phone, video, and in-person—this role requires extensive outreach and relationship-building
• 2-5 years of work experience in client-facing roles in relevant industries such as banking, business services, consultancies, financial services, or startup environments
• Bachelor's degree or higher

Preferred

• Curious about financial markets, including emerging trends and investment opportunities
• Passionate about problem-solving in a client service environment
• Able to write, speak, and present succinctly to deliver investment theses and ideas
• Strong in multitasking and prioritization skills with exceptional attention to detail and accuracy

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with both fixed and variable components
• Opportunity to build a powerful professional network early in your career through direct access to leading private market investors across Asia-Pacific and world-class experts across industries, from renowned academics to Fortune 500 executives
• Comprehensive professional development combining real project experience, senior leadership exposure, and structured learning opportunities
• Work arrangement: 4 days in office, 1 day work from home

Gerson Lehrman Group is seeking a Senior Associate 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. We are looking for a driven individual who thrives on performance-based rewards and is eager to contribute to our high performing team.

The Senior 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 Council Members:

Position Responsibilities:

• Facilitating educational interactions between GLG Council Members and our clients, enable our clients to make more informed and confident decisions. The Manager 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, 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 Senior 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 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 Senior 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.
• Further Collaborating with GLG’s Events, Strategic Projects and Survey teams to pitch and execute a wide range of products.

Position Requirements:

• The ideal candidate is a high-achiever driven by tangible rewards and a desire to excel within our culture of high performance
• Bachelor’s degree, or above
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English, and in Mandarin is a plus as this role will liaise with counterparts from Greater China
• 2 to 4 years of work experience in client-facing, partnerships, account management roles in relevant industries such as business/information services, market research, consultancies, and recruitment services, etc., plus significant ongoing curiosity about trends and personalities in the project-related sector
• Familiar with pain points and research solutions for life science or healthcare sectors would be a positive
• Prior experience with direct client communication and some level of ownership of client relationships
• Committed to delivering results and a growth mindset
• Demonstrated performance and business judgment, in some or all of the following areas:
• Sales, negotiation, or networking with high-end professionals; and/or
• Business development, corporate development, product development,
• Product and project management
• Ability to identify best match/solution of requests/questions and to handle increasing responsibility over time
• Successful track record working in a team environment
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise activities effectively, while ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

Gerson Lehrman Group is seeking an Associate 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. We are looking for a driven individual who thrives on performance-based rewards and is eager to contribute to our high performing team.

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 Council Members:

Position Responsibilities:

• Facilitating educational interactions between GLG Council Members and our clients, enable our clients to make more informed and confident decisions. The Manager 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, 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 Senior 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 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 Senior 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.
• Further Collaborating with GLG’s Events, Strategic Projects and Survey teams to pitch and execute a wide range of products.

Position Requirements:

• The ideal candidate is a high-achiever driven by tangible rewards and a desire to excel within our culture of high performance
• Bachelor’s degree, or above
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English, and in Mandarin is a plus as this role will liaise with counterparts from Greater China
• 0 to 2 years of work experience in client-facing, partnerships, account management roles in relevant industries such as business/information services, market research, consultancies, and recruitment services, etc., plus significant ongoing curiosity about trends and personalities in the project-related sector
• Familiar with pain points and research solutions for life science or healthcare sectors would be a positive
• Prior experience with direct client communication and some level of ownership of client relationships
• Committed to delivering results and a growth mindset
• Demonstrated performance and business judgment, in some or all of the following areas:
• Sales, negotiation, or networking with high-end professionals; and/or
• Business development, corporate development, product development,
• Product and project management
• Ability to identify best match/solution of requests/questions and to handle increasing responsibility over time
• Successful track record working in a team environment
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise activities effectively, while ensuring a high level of accuracy and attention to detail