AWM, GS Ayco Workplace Advisory Solutions, Relationship Manager - Vice President, NewPort Beach, CA

Job Description YOUR IMPACT Are you motivated to help grow institutional relationships within a firm dedicated to holistic financial counseling? Do you believe in the impact that a corporate-sponsored financial planning benefit can have on financial wellness?

Goldman Sachs

Ayco’s Corporate Relationship Management team is focused on ensuring our clients and partners receive the best service our firm has to offer through our strategic guidance, dedication to quality and commitment to improving the financial health of employees across the country.

OUR IMPACT Wealth Management Across Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs helps empower clients and customers around the world reach their financial goals. Our advisor-led wealth management businesses provide financial planning, investment management, banking and comprehensive advice to a wide range of clients, including ultra-high net worth and high net worth individuals, as well as family offices, foundations and endowments, and corporations and their employees.

Our consumer business provides digital solutions for consumers to better spend, borrow, invest, and save.

Across Wealth

Management, our growth is driven by a relentless focus on our people, our clients and leading-edge technology, data and design.

Goldman Sachs Ayco GS Ayco partners with Fortune 1000 companies to design and implement tailored financial planning programs for their workforce—leveraging the 50-year heritage of Ayco and the comprehensive resources of Goldman Sachs to meet the evolving needs of their employees. Ayco believes companies best serve their stakeholders and the greater economy when their employees’ financial lives are clear, understood and in their control.

Ayco advisors and technical specialists help clients achieve their personal financial goals through education and guided implementation across seven key financial disciplines, including employee benefit planning.

How You Will Fulfill Your Potential

  • Lead the strategic growth and maintenance of our existing client base within a designated regional territory
  • Successfully cultivate and strengthen key strategic relationships with senior HR counterparts at partner corporations
  • Identify revenue growth opportunities within current corporate relationships in the region and own successful execution
  • Articulate the firm's direction and strategic vision, leveraging subject matter experts to educate corporate clients on our diverse service offerings
  • Increase awareness and utilization of Goldman Sachs Ayco services among employees and executives within partner corporations
  • Collaborate on designing and implementing services by matching product offerings with needs to corporate partners
  • Partner with corporate client stakeholders to establish success metrics and develop effective engagement strategies
  • Discuss current utilization and outcomes metrics; analyze progress against pre-defined success factors
  • Serve as the escalation point for corporate contacts on any service issues and as the internal escalation point on any concerns regarding the relationship
  • Orchestrate internal firm resources and facilitate communication to enhance overall client relationship
Skills & Experience We’re Looking For
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Minimum 7+ years of experience with employee benefits/compensation, marketing/sales, relationship management and/or financial industry preferred is preferred
  • Strong organization and multitasking skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Detail oriented, self-motivated, and strong organization skills
  • Team oriented with ability to work across multiple businesses
  • Ability to work effectively within cross functional teams, exchanging ideas, and developing and managing timelines
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft products, including Work, Excel, Windows, PowerPoint
  • Potential travel required
About Goldman Sachs At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world. We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benef
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