Associate, Global Investor Relations & Capital Raising Role, Private Credit, Dubai

Our client, an investor relations and principal investment firm with headquarters in the UAE, is seeking high-calibre talent to join its private credit team. This individual will work closely with the team to support capital raising from institutional investors across the GCC region and identifying new, global principal investment opportunities

The role requires a basic understanding of alternative investment products, especially private equity, private credit and real estate coupled with the ability to successfully perform all activities required to support the capital raising effort across a wide swathe of sophisticated regional investors including SWFs, financial institutions, investment firms and family offices

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and supporting the entire sales process by providing CRM support
• Assisting and maintaining our CRM to effectively store client data, track client and MPW activity, priority of the pipeline, probability and time horizon of expected ticket sizes
• Responsible for inputting and maintaining investor data and activity in the CRM
• Creating and running reports and analytics through the CRM, working with large data sets to ensure all reports to colleagues and investors are accurate and sent in a timely manner
• Interfacing with senior management in the coordination, briefing and follow up of internal and external prospect meetings
• Contributing to the development of standard marketing materials and presentations

Requirements:

• 2 - 5 years experience in the alternative investments space (private equity, private credit, real estate, hedge funds)
• High level of organizational skills, running multiple projects concurrently
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, proactive, entrepreneurial, team-first environment while maintaining focus on fiduciary responsibilities to clients
• Must be willing to work flexible work hours in order to communicate with global offices, global partners and colleagues constantly in motion
• Experience in DealCloud or CRM systems