Sales Support - Southern Europe Milano

Sales Support - Southern Europe
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Provides office support to internal and external sales executives and relationship managers.

Engages in sales related activities in close partnership with sales executives.

**Core Responsibilities

- Assists Southern Europe sales team in populating and auditing client and prospect databases.

- Responds to routine or lower complexity inquiries from potential and current clients based in Italy, Switzerland, France and Spain.

- Supports sales executives with a variety of administrative and client follow up requests to enable sales executives to maximize external client and prospect engagement.

- Works with the marketing team to support the Sales Manager and Sales Executives at conferences and events.

Gathers metrics for data analysis.

- Researches solutions to client needs and analyzes performance data and market data.

Collaborates and contributes to the Southern Europe business strategy preparation with research and analysis.

- Collects data and research to prepare for sales presentations for Sales Executives' and Sales Manager's client meetings.

This requires independent and pro-active thinking and a close working relationship with Sales Executives / Sales Manager, products/capital markets and marketing teams for ensuring high level of quality and consistency.

- Prepares fund mapping analysis and performance documents for all prospects utilizing Morningstar and other databases.

This includes: Overseeing research database, researching, reviewing and analyzing prospect holdings, determining comparative Vanguard and alternative fund offerings and reviewing and providing thorough analysis.

- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications

- An undergraduate degree required.

Master's degree preferred.

- One to two years of experience in financial services or management consulting.

- Understanding of asset management industry and relevant products and services preferred.

- Strong client focus and ability to build strong relationships internally and externally

- A self-motivated team player, with a collaborative mindset.

- Strong analytical skills

- In-depth knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Programming skills, e. g. , macros in Excel preferred.

- Bloomberg / Morningstar user knowledge preferred.

- Languages - Italian and English: fluent.

Required additional European language German (preferable) or French preferable.

Spanish a plus.

**Special Factors

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

**About Vanguard

We are Vanguard.

Together, we're changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn't just end in value.

It starts with values.

Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return.

We invest with purpose - and that's how we've become a global market leader.

Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve.

And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone.

This is our opportunity.

Let's make it count.

**Inclusion Statement

Vanguard's continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture.

Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: "Do the right thing. "

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve.

We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard's core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

**Future of Work

During the pandemic, we transitioned to a work from home model for the majority of our crew and we continue to interview, hire, and on-board future crew remotely.

As we have developed the path forward, we have taken a thoughtful approach that both maximizes the advantages of working remotely and the many benefits of coming together and collaborating in a shared workspace.

We believe that in-person interactions among our crew are important for preserving our unique culture and advantageous for the personal development of our crew.

When our Crew return to the office, many will work in our hybrid model.

A smaller proportion of our crew will operate in the Work from Home work model (for example, field sales crew); or in the Work from Office model (for example, portfolio managers).

The working model that your role falls into will be communicated to you in the interview process - please do ask if you are unsure.

We encourage you to make the decision regarding your job interview and offer knowing which model