Job Description
About IMP
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IMP is a private markets specialist working across two divisions.
IMP Search is a retained executive search business placing senior distribution, capital formation, and investment professionals with private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real estate, and secondaries firms.
IMP Intelligence is our proprietary compensation benchmarking platform, built on pay data supplied directly by firms, covering base, bonus, and carry across the private markets.
We are self-funded, profitable, and small. That last point matters: this is not a graduate scheme with a rotation and a cohort. You will sit alongside the two partners, see the whole business, and your work will be visible from your first week.
The role
Graduate Marketing and Client Services Executive is a new position supporting both divisions. It exists because the firm's commercial engine (outreach, client contact, events, platform relationships) has outgrown what two partners can run between mandates.
You will own the operational side of IMP's go-to-market strategy. In practice, that breaks down into five areas.
Sales support, IMP Search
- Own the mailer end-to-end in Mailchimp: message set-up, segmentation, scheduling, and separate targeted sends
Build the target lists that give us a reason to make contact: new hires, new fund launches, team build-outs, and other market movements
Write and send outreach on behalf of the partners, offering an introductory conversation
Keep Apollo clean and correctly coded, so the pipeline data we act on is data we can trust
Client services, IMP Intelligence
- Manage all inbound queries and issues from the client portal, resolving what you can and routing what you cannot
Organise regular client check-ins and prepare the partners for them
Track client credit usage and prompt clients to use their recruitment credits before they lapse
PR and marketing support
- Organise roundtables and webinars: venue, invitation list, dietary requirements, run of show, follow-up
Support press release distribution when we take new research to the trade press
Social media support
- Work with our head of marketing on LinkedIn messaging and coordinate the team's comment schedule
Support our Substack and Reddit if we take it further
Executive support
- Manage the partners' diaries around client commitments
Who this suits
We are hiring for aptitude, not experience. You do not need a background in finance or recruitment, and we are not expecting you to know what carried interest is on day one.
You will do well here if you:
- Write clearly and can adapt your register, because a great deal of this job is email, and much of it goes out under a partner's name to senior people
Are unusually organised, and are comfortable being the person who remembers the thing everyone else forgot
Are genuinely comfortable chasing people, politely and repeatedly, until you get an answer
Like tools, and will happily work out what Mailchimp or Apollo can do rather than waiting to be shown
Have an eye for accuracy, because a mis-segmented list or a wrongly coded record is a mistake a client sees
Want to understand the business, not just complete the tasks in it
A 2:1 or equivalent in any discipline. Some exposure to a professional environment (internship, placement, part-time work) is useful but not required.
What we offer
- Direct access to the two partners: you will be managed by them, not by a layer between you and the decisions
A genuine path. xwwtmva This role is designed as a feeder into either search or the IMP Intelligence side of the business. As you build judgment, you will start joining client calls, and the scope grows from there
Real ownership early, of the mailer, of the events calendar, and of the client credit relationship