Sales / Business Development (German speaking), Associate
At a glance
Entry-level Business Development role at Blackrock. BU3-Budapest-GTC White House · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Call German financial advisers with structured talking points to open relevant sales conversations
- Uncover advisers’ needs, spot commercial potential, and route qualified opportunities to senior sellers
- Build early adviser relationships through steady phone and email follow-up
- Record conversations, follow-ups, and next actions in internal CRM systems
- Learn investment solutions and use portfolio analytics and digital sales tools in daily outreach
What you bring
- Fluent German and working English are required for adviser and team communication
- One to three years in sales, business development, client service, financial services, recruitment, consulting, or related work
- A demonstrated ability to create sales opportunities and sound persuasive and credible by phone
- Interest in financial markets, with a BA or BSc degree or equivalent experience preferred
Who this fits
This junior role suits a driven self-starter who can stay focused under pressure, recover from setbacks, and work effectively with senior sales colleagues. You’ll be based in Budapest and must work from the office at least four days each week, with one home-working day available. The role suits someone willing to build knowledge of investment solutions and adopt data, portfolio analytics, and digital sales processes.
From the employer
About this role
Business Unit Overview
EMEA Wealth Advisory is a key client business within BlackRock, responsible for the distribution of BlackRock's investment capabilities, technology, and products across Europe. The business delivers active, index, multi-asset, and private markets solutions, alongside industry-leading portfolio analytics and wealth technology through Aladdin Wealth Technology.
The Scaled Advisory Engagement Team sits within EMEA Wealth Advisory and is responsible for delivering an innovative, technology-enabled sales approach to the independent wealth management and financial adviser market.
Leveraging AI, data-driven insights, and portfolio analysis tools such as Portfolio 360, the team drives scalable, high-quality client engagement and commercial growth.
Job purpose:
As an Associate in the Scaled Advisory Engagement Team, you will play an important role in supporting BlackRock's growth across the German advisory market. Acting as a first point of contact for financial advisers and wealth professionals, you will engage prospective clients, identify commercial opportunities, and help expand BlackRock's market presence through proactive outreach and relationship building.
This role offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise across business development, financial markets, sales, relationship management, and client engagement. You will leverage data, technology, and market insights to connect with advisers, understand their business needs, and create meaningful opportunities for the broader sales team.
This is an excellent entry point into financial services sales, providing structured training, hands-on experience, and clear opportunities for career development within BlackRock.
Key responsibilities:
- Reach out to financial advisors via phone using structured scripts and tools, with the goal of starting meaningful conversations.
- Ask the right questions to understand advisor needs and identify potential business opportunities to pass on to senior team members.
- Develop initial relationships with advisors through regular follow-ups and consistent communication across phone and email.
- Continuously build knowledge of financial markets, investment solutions, and sales techniques through structured training.
- Use internal CRM tools to keep track of conversations, follow-ups and next steps.
- Collaborate closely with senior sales colleagues to ensure a smooth handover of qualified opportunities.
Skills & qualifications
- Fluent in German and proficiency in English is required to effectively communicate with independent advisors and teams.
- 1-3 years of professional experience in sales, business development, client service, sales support, financial services, recruitment, consulting, or a related field.
- Interest in financial markets required; prior knowledge is a plus, training provided
- BA/BSc degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- High sales acumen and the desire and ability to generate sales opportunities. Must be confident, persuasive, and credible over the phone.
- Ability to learn, adopt, and champion portfolio analytics tools and digital sales processes.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to maintain focus, motivation, and high performance under pressure, adapting quickly to setbacks or changing priorities.
- Demonstrates being a “Student of the Market” with ability to learn various investment solutions.
- Ability to work in team environment while being a driven self-starter.
Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.
Our benefits
To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.
Our hybrid work model
BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.
Guidance on AI use for candidates
At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.
About BlackRock
At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.
This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.
To learn more about BlackRock, please visit Careers.BlackRock.com. We also encourage you to get to know us on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, X, and TikTok.
BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.
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