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Business Unit:

Blackstone Private Wealth  

Business Unit Overview:

Blackstone Private Wealth was established to answer the growing demand for Blackstone products from high-net worth investors. Partnering with many of the world’s largest private banks and wealth management firms as well as family offices, Blackstone’s Private Wealth team packages and delivers the full breadth of Blackstone’s alternative product capability to these firms and their clients and provides ongoing product and advisor support, as well as education and training around alternatives.

Job Title:

Internal Sales Desk Manager, Vice President

Job Description:

Blackstone is seeking a mid-career professional to lead the Japan Internal Sales Desk (“Internal Sales Desk Manager”) and support the continued growth of the Private Wealth platform in Japan. This is a player-coach role that combines responsibility for managing and developing the junior Internal Sales professionals as well as conducting centralized cross regional branch/ advisor engagements together with the broader Sales & Promotion and Home Office Client Coverage team.

The individual will be responsible for ensuring development of junior Internal Sales professionals, improving the quality and consistency of sales support, and helping prepare high-performing team members for future client-facing roles within the Sales & Promotion team.

The role is intended to serve as an important development step within the Japan Private Wealth sales organization. It offers an opportunity for an experienced professional to broaden their responsibilities across the Japan Private Wealth business by leading branch engagements from the internal seat, while developing deeper engagement with increasingly senior distributor stakeholders over time.

The individual will help ensure that market feedback and insights from distributor and advisor interactions are captured, shared, and translated into more focused sales activities. The individual is also expected to lead coordinated cross regional branch engagement efforts such as post-event activation and launch initiatives with direct interaction with branch managers and advisors. By combining team leadership, talent development, sales support, and branch/ advisor engagement responsibilities, the Internal Sales Desk Manager will help strengthen the long-term sales capabilities of the Japan Private Wealth business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Japan Internal Sales Desk function, including team leadership, prioritization of activities, performance standards, and day-to-day coordination with the broader Sales & Promotion as well as Home Office Client Coverage team.
• Develop and mentor junior Internal Sales professionals through structured coaching, training, and career development initiatives, helping build a strong pipeline of future sales talent.
• Partner closely with client-facing Sales & Promotion professionals to enhance sales effectiveness through advisor support, campaign execution, market intelligence, follow-up activities, and the development of scalable sales processes and best practices.
• Identify market trends, distributor feedback, and emerging opportunities, and translate those insights into actionable sales initiatives and business priorities.
• Maintain selected client-facing responsibilities and contribute directly to distributor branch and advisor engagement, training programs, and business development initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Relevant local financial product sales licenses, or the ability to obtain such licenses upon joining the firm.
• 8+ years of experience within financial services, wealth management, asset management, or related industries.
• Deep knowledge and strong interest in capital markets, portfolio construction, and alternative investments.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage sophisticated financial professionals.
• Proven ability to build relationships, manage priorities, and operate effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Experience managing or mentoring junior professionals.
• Native-level Japanese language proficiency and professional-level English communication skills.
  

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

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If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete your application, please contact Human Resources at 212-583-5000 (US), +44 (0)20 7451 4000 (EMEA) or +852 3656 8600 (APAC).

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;

• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;

• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;

• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and

• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.

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