Werkstudent, Private Market Clients (2025 Start Dates) (m/f/d)

Company Description

About Third Bridge
Third Bridge is a market-leading investment research firm. We provide integrated solutions for the world’s top investors and business leaders to help them make smarter and faster decisions. No other company in the world provides the same holistic investment offering: our superpower is the combination of human insights and unique investor-led content with a global expert network. We serve over 1,000 investment firms, offering clients 24/7 coverage through our team of 1,300+ employees located across eight offices.

Job Description

Werkstudent, Client Services

As a working student you’ll have opportunities to work with the sharpest minds in private equity funds. They will rely on you to identify and connect them with specialists who offer crucial insights. To do so you'll gather a unique set of commercial skills that will help you deliver extraordinary results and grow professionally. Your focus will be on identifying and engaging with industry experts—the specialists who provide the key knowledge our clients rely on for important decisions. While you won’t interact directly with clients as a working student, you'll need to understand their project needs to ensure you’re connecting them with the right expertise.

This role will help you develop crucial soft skills such as:

• Prioritisation and time management through working in a fast-paced, client-driven environment

• Confidence and communication skills as you learn to reach out to senior industry executives and key opinion leaders and engage with them over the phone

Your impact:

• The projects can be complex, but the impact is meaningful - every day you will get to hear directly from your clients, experts and colleagues about the difference you have made.

• You will be working on our fastest growing accounts to drive success for a rapidly expanding organization.

You will be responsible for:

• Expert Sourcing: Use our internal database and external directories to identify specialists who match the client’s project requirements.

• Expert Outreach and Introduction to Third Bridge: Proactively reach out to potential experts via phone and email, often through cold calls, to engage them for specific projects.

• Project Understanding: Analyse client briefs and uncover key issues relevant to specific companies or industries to help you find the right expert profile for each project.

• Team Collaboration: Partnering with senior team members across our global organisation to support on key project deliverables, working as part of a dynamic team environment.

• Expert Engagement: Build relationships with experts, explain the project context, and coordinate their participation through interviews or meetings.

• Coordination & Follow-Up: Manage all expert-related logistics, ensuring seamless communication and timely scheduling for each project.

Qualifications

• You are currently studying towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and are available to work part-time for at least 3 months.

• Business fluent in English and German (written and oral - Level C1 and above).

• Able to work on-site at our office in Munich on your working days (relocation and housing not provided)

• Prior experience evidencing an interest in business is a plus

Areas that play to your strengths:

• You must be able to deliver high quality work on a deadline. You will be working on lots of active workstreams simultaneously, but that doesn’t scare you - in fact it excites you, and you’re confident in your ability to multitask and remain organised. Our clients are under a lot of pressure to make decisions fast, but you stay calm and get things done. If at times your client asks you for help out of hours, or your expert is in a different time zone, you strive to support - your hours vary according to the client project you are involved in, but you prefer that to a routine job. There is no typical week as a Third Bridge Associate.
• The Founder’s Mentality completely resonates with you, as this approach is part of our DNA. You’re an independent thinker who feels energised by the freedom Associates have to come up with the best solutions for their clients, because you’re endlessly curious and often question the way things are done. As long as you are eager to learn, we’ll provide you with the resources and coaching you need as you bring value to your clients and experts.
• You’re a clear communicator who can create the right narrative to share your ideas with a wide range of people, such as introducing our products and services to new clients and experts. You find that conversations often lead to strong relationships with people because you easily connect. You always look for the most efficient way to get things done, rather than the path of least resistance - for example you pick up the phone to get an answer to your questions straight away, rather than send an email and wait for a reply. Cold calling doesn’t phase you - what matters to you is to get results, and fast. 
• Your attitude is to roll up your sleeves and you enjoy being in the thick of the action. It matters a great deal to you to understand how your performance ranks against your own potential and against others, so you continuously seek feedback to make sure you can be at the top of your game. One of your clients preferring a competitor over you is not an acceptable state of affairs for you - you’re relentless in getting the data points you need to adjust your approach until you are their number one. With the soft skills gained on the job (hard skills are getting displaced by machines), you aspire to a future as a high EQ business leader.

Additional Information

What our people love about being working at Third Bridge:

• Being surrounded by people they not only enjoy working with, but who also challenge and support them
• Partnering first hand with the leading investors and consultants in the world and being privy to their thought process with all the learning this leads to 
• Building their career in business on a foundation of problem-solving, communication and commercial skills
• Living by “great minds think differently” in a diverse and inclusive team.

Thrive at Third Bridge!
We ensure every team member is able to bring their best self to work as well as in their lives outside - take a look at our benefits:

• Salary: Hourly compensation of €15, for a maximum of 20 hours weekly during term time.

• Vacation: 20 days pro rated for time in role

• Company Equipment: Apple Macbook plus €20 employee reimbursement for mobile phone usage

• Social: weekly optional social gatherings, daily breakfast and snacks, social events

• ESG: CSR, Environment and Diversity & Inclusion (including Women at Third Bridge, Pride and Blkbridge)