Sagard Overview
Sagard Holdings ("Sagard") is a multi-strategy alternative asset manager with professionals located in Canada (Montreal, Toronto), the US, Europe and Asia. Since 2016, Sagard has grown exponentially. Assets under management have expanded from US$500M to more than US$27B and Sagard's team of diverse professionals has grown from 50 to more than 400 team members as of February 2025.
Sagard invests across four primary asset classes: private equity, credit, real estate, and venture capital. Sagard was founded by Power Corporation of Canada as a complement to its global investment holdings and serves as one of its key strategic priorities with strong, long-term growth objectives.
Sagard's entrepreneurial DNA is palpable across our entire team and is a platform built by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Sagard looks to generate attractive returns by matching investment opportunities with flexible capital solutions and pairing entrepreneurs with teams that have deep industry knowledge. Sagard develops long-term partnerships and empowers the growth of its investments through a unique global network of portfolio companies, limited partners, advisors, and other valued relationships.
Sagard is a UN PRI signatory and strives to measure and assess the social and economic impact it has on the people and businesses within our network, as well as on our society as a whole.
More at https://www.sagard.com/
Position overview:
To support the firm's continued growth in North America, Sagard is currently seeking to hire an experienced consultant relations professional to design a strategic plan and execute on said plan for global, major market US, and regional/boutique consultants representing the full investment capabilities of our platform. The successful candidate will collaborate extensively with and report to the Head of North American Capital Formation. Knowledge of the alternatives industry, excellent sales, marketing, project management, and organizational skills are required, together with demonstrated success in achieving and commercializing ratings across multiple alternatives products with consulting organizations across the AUA spectrum.
Your Responsibilities:
Consultant Relationship Development:
- Developing strong relationships and building commercial momentum with key consultant stakeholders (Research, Field, OCIO, and Senior Management)
- Articulating Sagard's overall investment philosophy, bringing new funds and investment opportunities, and representing the entire platform to the consulting community
- Sequencing these capabilities in a commercially realistic and effective manner is critical
- Winning new fund approvals/ratings and building the probability of commercial success within consulting firms through strong research and field consultant relationship development
- Triangulating on strategy and communicating effectively with capital formation, investment specialists, investment leaders, and all commercial stakeholders
- Leveraging Senior Leadership to gain access to the highest levels of leadership at assigned consultant firms
- Coordinate support across capital formation and investor relations teams globally
- Provide leadership and investment teams with key insights on investor trends, news, and market dynamics to inform the firm's overall strategy.
Deliver Useful Market Feedback:
- Provide leadership and investment teams with key insights on investor trends, news, and market dynamics to inform the firm's overall strategy
Culture Carrier:
- Operate as a highly professional team player and internal source of relevant industry information and feedback
- Trust, collaboration, transparency, throughput, information flow, and effective relationship development.
Experience & Qualifications:
- An undergraduate degree is required and an advanced degree such as MBA or holding the CFA designation is valued
- A minimum of 10 years of professional work experience
- At least five years (most recently) of directly relevant and successful consultant relations, fundraising/investor relations experience, either with an asset manager or consulting firm
- Direct experience with illiquid private markets investment strategies is required
- Coordinating with internal counterparts to discuss and set strategy, target consultant relationships and investment product priorities
- Experience working with institutional investors and understanding investor objectives and rating/buying criteria within disparate consulting firms
- A record of recent success in raising capital through consultants
- Experience engaging with investors in a consultative, whole portfolio-type framework
- A history of maintaining high standards of service excellence with both existing clients and prospective investors.
Our ideal candidate:
- Ability to drive a process forward through completion, and to effectively prioritize competing objectives and urgent deadlines
- Presence and self-confidence to interface with the key constituents of the firm, across the seniority spectrum
- A pattern of excellence, both personally and professionally, demonstrated by the individual's education, career track record, intellect, and professional reputation
- Excellent relationship management skills – networking, influencing, collaborating – and a proven ability to build trust – both internally and externally
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills with an ability to build strong working partnerships with colleagues
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills coupled with the ability to interact effectively with company founders and management teams
- Self-awareness, maturity, irreproachable integrity and a high degree of confidentiality.
Sagard is an equal opportunity employer, which values diversity in the workplace. We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual. If you require accommodation to participate in the hiring process, please contact the People & Culture team to make your needs known in advance.
We welcome all applications and wish to thank all candidates for their interest in applying for this position. However, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.
