Research Associate, Content Library

Third Bridge is a leading global research firm established in 2007, with a team of over 1,500 employees worldwide dedicated to fueling decisions with expert insights . We accelerate and enhance decision-making for investors and business leaders by unearthing unique expert insights across multiple sectors, geographies, and topics. For nearly 20 years, we’ve helped clients access knowledge on demand from experts, in-person and through our Library covering over 65,000 companies. Library is our Content Creation business. We produce research that allows institutional investors to make better and faster investment decisions. We conduct in depth Interviews with senior executives and industry specialists to unearth critical insights and generate unfiltered transcripts. Our 175-strong industry aligned team covers over 18,000 public and private companies, applying data-driven factor models to identify where capital is most likely to be deployed. In order for us to deliver on our ambitious growth targets, we would like to recruit an Associate to assist our growing team in Hong Kong and India in identifying and engaging with the most relevant industry professionals to take part in upcoming interview discussions. Responsibilities: In this role your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to: Performing research on industries and businesses in the Pan-Asia region, with a focus on India, Southeast Asia and Australia, in order to source and identify the most relevant individuals (C-level executives and practitioners working at the heart of their industries) to take part in moderated interviews Engaging these individuals to invite them to participate in our research, while assessing and ensuring that their insights are relevant and their fees are within budget Building a professional network and monitoring the relevant markets/companies in the assigned sector areas according to Library content coverage strategies Working in tight deadlines and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders across different global offices Additional Information about the role: The format is a 1-hour industry interview between our Sector analyst and 1 industry expert. The Sector Analyst is responsible to generate the projects and design the question list. The Associate will collaborate with one of our Sector Analysts (Third Bridge employee, like an internal client) on the projects to source the industry experts. Once the Sector Analyst assigns a project, the Associate will do some desktop research, and will be responsible for sourcing the Industry Expert we want to connect and invite for an industry interview. You need to find the most relevant individuals using LinkedIn, company websites, job boards, our own database and a lot more. Once you've found someone with the right background, you are then responsible for making contact with them. Most often, that comes in the form of a cold call. You will introduce Third Bridge and what we do, screen the individual’s background, assess whether they have the right experience/knowledge related to the project/topic and if they are the right fit for the topic, convince them to participate in our industry interviews. Something to consider about this role is that it is very outreach heavy, fast paced and metric oriented environment. In the first year the goal is to schedule industry interviews with 14-16 industry experts per month. What’s in it for you? Dive into our comprehensive training program and as you progress from a new hire to a seasoned Associate, within which you will: Learn about financial markets and the factors that shape them Sit at the crux of key market catalysts, helping our analysts and top-tier institutional investor clients make sense of recent market events; Learn to leverage our proprietary tools and public databases to find thought leaders and key industry executives for each topic Learn how to project manage and develop relationships with both internal and external stakeholders Learn…