About the Opportunity

Title                 Associate Director, Dutch Sales

Department    Sales

Location         Amsterdam / Brusells / Paris / London

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together - and supporting each other - all over the world. So, join our team and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers globally. As a privately held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 locations and with $783.6 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.

About your role

The Sales Associate Director is responsible for generating new business from clients in the Netherlands through high quality relationships and an effective client centric solutions approach as well as securing retention of acquired clients and assets through effective on-going management of the client relationship.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Set, own, and execute a robust business strategy for Dutch market and day-to-day focus on the tactical execution of the strategy

• Handle client relationships: build on the existing groundwork with banks, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies, corporates as well as develop opportunities in the broader market

• Initiate contact and develop meaningful relationships with institutions that currently do not know Fidelity first-hand

• Generate a steady pipeline of opportunities across Fidelity’s investment solutions (segregated and pooled), i.e. equity, fixed income and alternatives

• Achieve a balanced conversion to funded business by effectively matching client requirements with Fidelity’s investment competence / business priorities

• Continue overall ownership of client relationships post initial investment

• Conduct regular investment/market reviews with appropriate support/inputs from investment management

• Work closely with the Head of Sales Benelux and colleagues to support and develop opportunities from within their client base

About you

• A highly effective business development and relationship management professional rooted in the Dutch market

• Passionate about the chance to build on Fidelity's reputation and the breadth and quality of its investment products and services

• A 'self-starter' but also a team player able to build close working relations with colleagues in Continental Europe

• A mature, entrepreneurial individual, comfortable with operating in a small but highly professional team

• Excellent analytical and conceptual mind, with pragmatic decisiveness

• Can-do attitude with the ability to set priorities

• Highly developed investment skills with strong competence in sustainable investing

• Ability to effectively operate with key partners at all levels, both internal and external

• Higher education degree is required, additional finance education (e.g. CFA, CAIA) is an asset

• Language skills: Fluent in Dutch and English is a requirement

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.