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Gateley Global is one of the UK's most active inward investor advisors. We help businesses expand internationally. We work in partnership with our clients to help them achieve their international growth ambitions

We are a 100% owned subsidiary of Gateley Group, one of the UK's pre-eminent professional services firms. Gateley Legal has been the UK's most active merger and acquisition (M&A) legal adviser for the past 5 years running. We work in collaboration with our Gateley colleagues to meet our clients' needs.

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.

The Team

Gateley Global brings together a team of experts that help international business to expand into new global markets.

With experience of helping hundreds of businesses to expand internationally and an extensive network of international contacts, we specialise in managing the risk that comes with inward investment projects and international expansion.

We help organisations invest in overseas markets by identifying four key things:

We'll advise you on the right country for your expansion, right down to the specific location within a territory. We can help you set up the right corporate and governance structures and the right bank accounts to access funding. We can assist with personnel matters too, assessing candidates for senior management roles and providing interim non-executive director support.

The Role

The Graduate Consultant role will assist with attracting, growing and retaining foreign companies establishing in the UK and UK companies establishing abroad. The Graduate Consultant will assist with winning clients through marketing and business development, on-boarding clients and moving them through our sales pipeline. The Graduate Consultant will assist to provide billable services generated from market entry support and bespoke projects as the client requires to assist their growth. The Graduate Consultant will also work with our Gateley colleagues to provide clients services as required and drive cross-sell. For existing clients, the Graduate Consultant will assist to provide after care to uncover further opportunities for Gateley Globaland Gateley.

In addition to client work, the Graduate Consultant will assist with preparing tenders for large scale project delivery, such as Government programs. Where Gateley Globalis successful in winning tenders, the Graduate Consultant will be active in delivering those programs through assisting with the program management or to deliver a specific service within the project or the provision of billable services.

While the key responsibilities listed in this description must happen for the Graduate Consultant to deliver their targets, there is scope for the right person to develop this role and make it their own.

Key Skills & Experience

As a Graduate Consultant for International Investment Services you will be responsible for:

• Promotion of Gateley Globaland Gateley services
• Client on-boarding
• Providing direct billable services to clients to support their growth and internationalisation
• Assist to create bespoke propositions to clients based on need to support their growth and internationalisation
• Working with Gateley colleagues to provide clients services as required and drive cross sell
• Assist with account management of existing clients to provide best in class service and to uncover further opportunities for Gateley Globaland Gateley
• Networking with Commercial and Professional Service Providers, and local and national governments and regional development bodies, for the purpose of supporting clients' needs and driving referrals to Gateley Globaland Gateley
• Assist with preparing tenders for projects leveraging individual and IIS areas of expertise
• Where Gateley Globalhas won a project/program working with the wider Gateley Globalteam and delivery partners to assist with the successfully delivery of the project/program
• Use skills and expertise to deliver specific parts of the project/program individually/as a team
• Where appropriate, deliver project/program services on a billable basis within Gateley Globalor working on the client side through a secondment or delivery contract
• Ensure efficient and effective use and capture of information to develop reports for management
• Produce required reports/pipeline updates to measure KPIs

Required attributes and skills:

• Business analysis/acumen skills and experience working with business clients
• An understanding of the key drivers of domestic/international business expansion
• A cooperative and pro-active team player that is also comfortable working on individual tasks
• Experience as part of a project/program management team
• Agile and flexible approach to work to support customers, management, and stakeholders
• A desire to develop business development and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to think creatively to solve problems
• Excellent time management and communication skills
• Confident using MS Teams (and other video conferencing software), MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel and IT management tools

Desired attributes and skills:

• 1 - 2 years professional experience working with business clients or within a financial, professional or legal services firm
• Experience in supporting businesses in location management and market entry and/or inward investment and economic development experience
• Relationships with complimentary professional service providers, and local government and regional development bodies
• Education: Legal, business or marketing degree or other related field
• Professional Qualifications (or aspiring towards attaining professional qualifications)
• Experience living and working in a foreign (non-UK) country preferred (not essential)
• Participation in a graduate program at a financial, professional or legal services firm highly sort after

Diversity, inclusion and well being

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.

We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.