Trainee – Junior Sales

We are looking for someone who is passionate about financial markets, eager to build a career in institutional sales and business development and motivated to learn from experienced professionals in a highly entrepreneurial environment. 

You will join the Business Development team, which is responsible for promoting and marketing investment products to institutional clients (c.20 people). More specifically, you will support the Business Development team in servicing the Swiss German institutional clients invested mainly in Insurance Linked Securities, Leveraged Loans and Infrastructure Loans. You will leverage your financial products knowledge, language and social skills to assist the team in maintaining key client relationships and building new business with prospects. In addition, you will cooperate daily with colleagues in Paris, where SCOR Investment Partners is headquartered. You will be based in Zurich and report to the Co-Head of Sales.

• Support the local senior sales team, in cooperation with the Client Service team in Paris, specifically:

  • Prepare investment reports, periodic and ad-hoc

  • Help with questionnaires from clients and consultants

  • Organize meetings and events, internal and with clients

  • Answer phone calls and e-mails and deputize senior sales managers in their absence

• Help feed the CRM tool, where all client activities are logged

• Business analyses:

  • Business development activity (using the CRM tool)

  • Competitor analyses (multiple sources)

  • Investment cases (multiple sources)

Required experience & competencies

• Good understanding of financial markets, institutional investing and major asset classes, including fixed income, private debt, infrastructure and alternative investments.

• Focus on understanding and meeting client needs. Strong interest in business development, client relationship management and sales activities.

• Keen to learn and eager to continuously develop financial, commercial and relationship management skills.

• Basic understanding of institutional portfolio construction and Strategic Asset Allocation (SAA) concepts is desirable.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships internally and externally.

• Team player with a high level of curiosity, energy and commitment.

• Proficient in MS Office applications.

• Language skills: German, English and French.

Required Education 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Economics, Finance, Business Administration or a related field is preferred. However, a university degree is not mandatory if the candidate can demonstrate relevant professional experience within banking, asset management or financial services.

• Candidates with practical experience and a strong understanding of financial markets and institutional clients are encouraged to apply.

• Previous internship or professional experience in banking, asset management, financial services, consulting or institutional sales is highly desirable.

• Experience with client acquisition, prospecting or commercial activities would be considered a strong plus.
   

Why Join Us?
SCOR supports your career and helps you develop your skills by encouraging mobility, blended learning through the SCOR University and offering a dynamic, innovative working environment in beautiful, light-filled offices overlooking Lake Zurich.
Our compensation includes attractive benefits (such as participation to public transportation and delicious meals) and we promote a healthy work life balance through numerous initiatives and a hybrid working model.
As a socially responsible employer, our teams participate each year in projects around civic engagement, wellbeing and diversity in the workplace, environmental protection, and many others.

SCOR promotes diversity and equal treatment in all aspects of employment, from recruitment to evaluation, compensation and talent management. The Group is proud to employ people who care about each other, their community and society as a whole. We do everything we can to encourage these attitudes in our employees and to empower them to make a difference.

We look forward to your application!

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.