About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
At Northern Trust, our Wealth Strategist position is a key business development sales role to support our growth. Wealth Strategists are responsible for cultivating new relationships with individuals, families, non-profit institutions, and other entities. This is a client development sales executive role.
As a senior member of the Northern Trust team, you will oversee new client development, solutions sales strategy, and execution of our goals-driven approach to wealth management planning. With the support of our local team of specialists and national resources, you will identify prospective clients, share Northern Trust capabilities in conversations and meetings, and follow through to convert prospects to clients. You will also manage the transition of ongoing client contact and account management to the appropriate teams within Northern Trust to encourage the enhancement and expansion of existing relationships. As a local brand ambassador in the community, you will actively engage as a leader for local civic and philanthropic organizations.
What You’ll Do:
You’ll bring your entrepreneurial spirit, motivation to close new business, collaboration and communication skills together to create and implement a business development strategy and approach for your targeted new client base.
You’ll work with ultra high net worth(UHNW) individuals, families and businesses as you cultivate new investment management relationships in the UHNW client space. You’ll share and support our goals-driven wealth management approach to both prospective and current clients to develop new business. And you’ll do that year after year with persistence and patience.
You’ll take a long term consultative approach with clients (and their representatives including attorneys) on the benefits of estate planning services, utilizing your knowledge of wealth transfer and tax planning strategies. And you’ll check-in regularly with your clients and act as their liaison to the rest of Northern Trust as their needs evolve.
You’ll cultivate internal and external personal and professional networks to identify new client relationships, and showcase the full capabilities and services of Northern Trust to members of the community, clients (new and existing), and professional advisors.
You understand this is an all-encompassing endeavor – and have a plan to look for opportunities and connections in your communities, networks, and philanthropic organizations.
You won’t be alone – you’ll have and be expected to work with a full team of respected experts to provide support along the way as you work to understand the needs of potential clients and showcase how Northern Trust can help them achieve their goals and objectives.
What will make you successful in the role:
You live and breathe business development and have 10 or more years of sales and relationship management experience, preferably working with wealth management clients.
You have(or have a plan to build) a strong network of Centers of Influence (COIs) for ultra-high net worth individuals and families to include attorneys, estate planning professionals, and CPAs.
You have knowledge of fiduciary capabilities and services (e.g., personal trusts, living trusts, wills, investment management, custody, financial consulting, estate and tax planning), including fee structures and documentation. Keeping up-to-date with in-depth knowledge is key to long term success and credibility with your clients.
You are able to profile a client’s financial landscape and needs to determine how best to advise and deliver solutions across the full span of Northern Trust capabilities. You’re willing to spend the time understanding both the client and what Northern Trust can offer to bring success to the client.
Series 7 and 63 licenses are required. Additional professional designations such as CFP, CFTA, CFA, CIMA are strongly preferred.
You know how to use your strong analytical and sales skills to connect individual client asset situations to our specific capabilities and services.
Your strong communication skills will ensure you can understand clients’ needs and respond with the appropriate solutions.
You value the input of others and look forward to working collaboratively across all of Northern Trust to grow the business. No lone wolfs here!
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
Skills Required
- 10 or more years of sales and relationship management experience, preferably with wealth management clients.
- Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.
- Experience working with ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals, families, and businesses.
- Knowledge of fiduciary capabilities and services (personal trusts, living trusts, wills, custody, investment management, estate and tax planning).
- Ability to build and maintain a network of Centers of Influence (attorneys, estate planners, CPAs).
- Strong analytical, sales, communication, and collaborative skills.
- Willingness to engage in community and philanthropic organizations as a local brand ambassador.
- Professional designations such as CFP, CFTA, CFA, CIMA.
Northern Trust Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northern Trust and has not been reviewed or approved by Northern Trust.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as a standout, with a 401(k) plus an additional employer-funded pension described as a differentiator. This combination is repeatedly framed as a meaningful offset within total rewards, especially for long-term financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are depicted as generous, spanning paid time off, holidays, and dedicated paid volunteer time. The breadth of leave options is highlighted as a consistent strength that supports work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is characterized as comprehensive, typically including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support through an assistance program. The offering is portrayed as robust and family-supportive, with multiple plan options in some descriptions.
Northern Trust Insights
What We Do
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across six core business units: Wealth Management Asset Management Asset Servicing Technology Corporate Functions Enterprise Operations Join a Team That’s Achieving Greater At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you. Delivering value and adhering to our enduring principles What are enduring principles? Since our founding, they have guided our strategy and success. Thanks to the dedication of our partners, Northern Trust continues to thrive by adhering to three enduring principles: service, expertise and integrity . What does this mean? Service Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service to our clients, our partners and our communities. We set new standards and go above and beyond in our commitment to delivering greater results. Expertise Expertise is at the core of who we are. We focus sharply on what we do well. From expanding our capabilities, to hiring talented professionals to developing innovative solutions, our expertise is why we continue to be a trusted advisor for generations of families and institutions. Integrity Operating with uncompromising ethics is central to Northern Trust’s heritage. As a result, our clients, partners and communities know they can rely on us. For more than 130 years, our integrity has been our guide – and that will never change.
Why Work With Us
At Northern Trust, we go further because we go together. We embrace flexibility, encourage balance, and prioritize inclusion at all levels, working together to keep you connected. We are committed to our employees—all 24,000 of them. Whether this is a first step or a bold new leap in your career, we’re here to help you move forward.
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