Our Firm
American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm's 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing
institutional-quality,
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends-more than $1.8 billion - to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute's work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
For more information, please visit americancentury.com.
The
Junior
Proposal Writer
Responsibilities
- Respond to RFPs, RFIs, and DDQs across Sales Distribution channels and product spectrum using content database (RocketDocs).
- Build relationships with all areas of the firm Investment Management, Legal, Finance, Compliance, Operations, Human Resources, Client (Sales), and Product to build and maintain articulate, accurate, and relevant firm and product responses.
Requirements
- Experience writing and editing proposals (investment management industry preferred, experience writing institutional asset management RFPs desired)
- Strong process and project management skills able to balance multiple projects within timelines, while producing quality work
- Excellent attention to detail, grammar, spelling and proofreading skills.
- Builds positive relationships with internal and external business partners and exhibits professional maturity and judgment.
- Works independently as well as within a team.
- Understands investment management theories and practices (preferred), and able to articulate them clearly.
- Analytical ability to synthesize information and summarize issues.
- Knowledge of (or aptitude for quickly learning) American Century's investment management capabilities (and growing areas of focus ETFs, Sustainable Investing, UCITs, etc.)
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office products, primarily Word and Excel
- Experience with RocketDocs or similar content management system preferred.
- BA/BS in related field (English, Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Journalism, Communications).
- Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.
Additional Requirements
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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