Sales Intern - 2022
Company Description
Over the last twenty years, MarketAxess has completely revolutionized the fixed-income market by creating a single platform using proprietary technology that connects the world’s most influential financial institutions. Today, more than 1,800 institutional investors and broker-dealer firms rely on us to bring them accurate market data to assist with their trading decisions, connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing and technology services to optimize trading environments.
Job Description
Within the financial markets, the name MarketAxess is synonymous with delivering innovative technology to the global fixed income electronic trading markets. If you are interested in marketing our capabilities to the world’s most prominent institutional investors and the largest broker-dealers, please read more about our Sales Intern Program below.
Program Overview
The Sales Internship program is geared towards rising seniors who, upon graduation, are interested in sales and business development roles in a fast growing company in the financial technology space.
The Sales Internship program will allow you to rotate through client and dealer sales in order to gain broad product exposure over the course of approximately 8 – 10 weeks. Through the rotations, you will begin to learn how MarketAxess brings together the key players in the fixed income markets, giving them increased access to pre trade data, improved price transparency and trading efficiency. You will also gain exposure to our largest institutional investors (including the world’s top 100 investment and asset management firms, mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, and others) and our dealer partners (a broad global network of 90 firms including Barclays, Citigroup Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and many others).
You will:
- Strategize alongside our sales team as they create and deliver client messaging
- Create and run reports on platform data, allowing you to analyze performance and build presentations
- Create a network and build knowledge that affords you access to our sales team and their client base. Potential opportunities to attend external meetings.
What does the Intern Experience include?
- An overview of MarketAxess; our role in the financial markets; and formal classroom training
- Rotations through our various client focused and product areas - investment grade, high yield, emerging markets, municipal bonds, and rates
- To assist in client onboarding, relationship management, and the build out of new initiatives
- Exposure to our international capabilities: Collaborate with your colleagues across regions and offices while working on a group project. Our group project will give you exposure to our largest upcoming initiatives and allow you to contribute to building our business.
- External meetings and events with our existing sales team, including weekly update meetings, client calls, client entertainment and semi-annual strategy and goal setting meetings.
- Exposure to senior management across the organization through weekly breakout sessions and roundtable discussions
- You will be paired with both Senior and Junior mentors who will guide you through your program and provide unique industry insight.
What You Bring to the Table
- All majors considered although a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or Professional Sales is preferred, graduating in Spring 2023
- Passion for client interaction and business development
- Strong results orientation
- Strong MS Office skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Additional Information
What’s In It For You?
In addition to working on cutting edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:
- Healthcare and wellness options
- Training and tuition assistance
- Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare
MarketAxess Corporation and its affiliates provide equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal and state law.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.