Business Development Specialist

Position:Business Development Specialist

Location: Denver, CO

Job :615

# of Openings:1

• The Business Development Specialist will serve as a critical partner to the external sales team and distribution leadership, driving advisor engagement, building pipelines, and ensuring consistent messaging around our private market solutions. This individual will combine proactive outbound activity with inbound responsiveness, acting as the first line of education and support for RIAs, broker-dealers, and other wealth management intermediaries.

• Partner with assigned External Wholesaler(s) to achieve territory sales goals and increase assets under management (AUM).
• Conduct proactive outbound calls, emails, and digital outreach to financial advisors to schedule meetings, webinars, and events.
• Build and maintain a strong sales pipeline by qualifying prospects and tracking opportunities in CRM (Hub Spot/Salesforce).
• Support new advisor onboarding by walking prospects through platform access, fund mechanics, and subscription process.

• Deliver product messaging and educational content around co-investments, evergreen fund structures, and private markets access.
• Handle inbound advisor inquiries with timely, accurate, and consultative responses.
• Coordinate territory marketing campaigns, webinars, and conference participation.
• Ensure consistent follow-up after events, roadshows, and key account presentations.

• Maintain clean, detailed activity and pipeline data within CRM.
• Generate weekly reports for external wholesalers and sales leadership (meetings set, pipeline movement, conversion ratios).
• Coordinate with marketing to deploy campaigns and align messaging across channels.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in financial services sales, internal wholesaling, or client service role.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume outbound activity and sustain consistent follow-up.
• Strong knowledge of investment products; ability to learn and articulate private markets and alternatives quickly.
• Excellent communication skills (phone, email, webinar) with professional presence and confidence.
• High level of organization, CRM proficiency, and process orientation.

• FINRA Series 7 & 66 (or willingness to obtain within first 6 months).
• Experience working with RIAs, broker-dealers, or wealth management distribution.
• Familiarity with Hub Spot CRM, Salesforce, or equivalent.
• Track record of exceeding activity-based and sales-based goals.

Meketa Investment Group is an employee-owned full-service investment consulting and advisory firm. We work with some of the nation’s largest and most sophisticated institutional investors including public and private plan sponsors. We have a staff of over 250 employees among our six U.S. office locations and London.
Meketa recognizes that our workforce is a reflection of our company, and we operate in an inclusive environment that accepts and promotes diversity. We believe our employees can best serve our clients in an atmosphere where individuals are treated fairly, where professional growth is developed and encouraged, and where a healthy balance between work and home life is respected and preserved.

To support employees, Meketa offers a competitive compensation structure, a wide range of benefits from core insurance benefits to time-based benefits, as well as flexible schedules and support for continuing education.

Meketa is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Aff

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