Private Market Secondary Investment Specialist

At Mercer we work with clients in 140 markets around the world, helping them continue to advance the health, wealth, and performance of their most vital asset — their people.

Mercer Alternatives is a global specialist for alternative investments, including private markets, offering customized and pooled investment solutions as well as advisory services, for institutional investors around the world.

In order to support the growth of our private markets business we are expanding our investment team focused on transactions and are looking for a

Private Market Secondary Investment Specialist

Your main responsibilities:

• Source private markets secondary opportunities by fostering relationships mainly with intermediaries but also with fund managers and investors
• Perform secondary investment analyses of private markets funds and assets applying our proprietary secondary pricing models
• Negotiate commercial secondary terms with sellers
• Prepare private markets secondary investment memos and present investment proposals to our respective Investment Committee
• Upon Investment Committee approval, follow through the legal and tax due diligence process up to the onboarding of new secondary investments on behalf of our secondary accounts and accounts with secondary exposure
• Monitor existing secondary investments on a qualitative and quantitative basis
• Conduct private markets secondary related research and ad-hoc analyses that may go beyond the secondary market and are intended to serve our investment as well as business development teams
• Support private markets secondary related business development and client relationship projects and represent Mercer Alternatives' secondary platform at conferences and events

Your profile:

• Top academic credentials (master's degree), additional qualifications (CFA, CAIA) are a plus
• Two+ years of professional work experience in asset management, corporate finance or a related field (ideally in the private equity and/or secondary investment area),
• Strong analytical skills and ability to condense complex information and reflect in a straight forward format
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Self-motivated team player able to work independently
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English (German or other languages are a plus)

Why join our team:

• We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
• We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
• Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.

Sounds interesting?
Then we look forward to receiving your application through our online system

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Samantha Schlappinger, Talent Acquisition Consultant:

More information about Mercer and Mercer Alternatives:

Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), is a global leader in helping clients realize their investment objectives, shape the future of work and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. With annual revenue of $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit , or follow on LinkedIn and X.

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