Wallace Associates Inc. Review: Qualities of the Creative Entrepreneur
Wallace Associates Inc. understands the role of the entrepreneur as an innovative force in the economic and social sense. Many of the changes in the manufacturing and retailing industry have been products of entrepreneurs who dared to challenge conventional thinking and introduced productive and efficient approaches to doing things. Fastfoods chains, malls and BPO’s are just some of the innovations entrepreneurs came up with in the contemporary setting, not to mention many other products and services that have served to make modern life what it is today.
Here are a few:- Resourcefulness – One does not need to be wealthy or well-connected in order to become resourceful. The ability to find opportunities in every situation is a talent that arises from being curious about life and things, in general. Understanding how people, things and situations interact with each other in a dynamic way allows the entrepreneur to picture novel ways of improving work efficiency and reducing costs and resources. It takes a mind that can see the forest as well as the trees for what they really are and what they can become – a simple forest as well as a sanctuary for animals and for people who seek beauty, solace and rest.
- Inventiveness – Imagination lays a vital role in the entrepreneur’s life. No limits are placed upon the possibilities available to the mind that can see with the eyes of a child. Walt Disney brought about a revolution in the animation and entertainment industry with his penchant for playfulness and adventure. We can almost say that entrepreneurs are only into the act because they enjoy doing things more than their desire to make money. Work without play can be disastrous; a lot of play in work can bring about huge rewards.
- Courage – All of the above would not be attractive to the entrepreneur or the would-be-entrepreneur if one did not have the courage to face all dangers and criticisms besetting those who wish to follow their innocent and sincere passions and ambitions to make a difference in the boring world that they see and live in. Thomas Edison was probably motivated more by his morbid desire to succeed at every new daunting challenge he faced than the rewards he hoped to gain. How else will you describe a person who persevered by doing a thousand tries just so he could do it right after that?
WALLACE ASSOCIATES: RESEARCH DIRECTOR, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
MASSACHUSETTS
The Company
Our client is relied on as an industry leader for providing timely information and advice on how business strategy drives technology adoption. Their research is unique in its focus on technology only in the context of the business issue or process it supports. The company’s wide array of clients receives crucial support in the most critical business initiatives, including supply chain transformation; new product introduction, customer profitability, compliance and governance, and IT benefit realization. Long recognized for their visionary insights, this company has a distinguished record of highly relevant and effective client services based upon the principles of integrity, objectivity and independence.
Wallace Associates Inc Singapore Executive Management Recruitment
The Job
The Research Director will become a thought leader in enterprise architecture and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) through developing and executing a research agenda that is compelling to CIO’s and IT Executives in Fortune 500 Companies. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced, personable, research-oriented individual seeking to join a renowned firm.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing and delivering reports and presentations involving best practices and strategies to guide user decision-making.
- Driving research on enterprise architecture specifically targeted towards the trends and direction of SOA.
- Interact on an ongoing basis with clients and prospects.
- Work on business and technology issues with all company levels, including VP’s, CIO’s and CEO’s.
What it Takes
- Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)
- 10+ years of experience in a related field
- Past experience working towards metrics or quota targets, with a proven track-record of success
- Thorough understanding of best practices, business strategies, goals and metrics, and the ability to link them to the company’s IT strategy
- Ability to represent and defend analysis in client interactions
- Concise and persuasive writing and presentation skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills in dealing with both colleagues and clients
Most important attributes of our candidate:
- Strong understanding of industry best practices and business strategies
- Strong writing and presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills when dealing with clients and prospects
Why apply?
If you are a qualified professional who seeks the benefits of working with an outstanding organization, and you want to be part of a team of professionals who are industry leaders in developing information and advice on how business strategy drives technology adoption, you should consider this job.
This is a company that helps its clients to define competitive technology solutions by offering integrated, industry-specific areas of coverage, analyst interaction and leading-edge research. You can be a catalyst for change to the customers you serve.
Please email your resume along with a cover letter to positions@wallaceassoc.com
Wallace Associates Inc. Singapore Executive Management Recruitment: PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT – IT/TELECOM
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT – IT/TELECOM
NORTHEAST US
The Company
Our client is an established well respected international consulting firm which provides the most comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries available from any source. As one of the world’s leading economic information and consulting firms, it covers over 200 countries and spans more than 170 industries.
Wallace Associates Inc Singapore Executive Management Recruitment
The Job
- Prepare proposals and presentations for sales purposes
- Identify and develop business opportunities with IT and Telecom organizations
- Assist practice managing director in developing new products and services to expand the market
- Manage client accounts
- Develop models, forecasts, analytical reports and presentations that examines market sizing and company sales
- Work closely with various groups, including the company’s sales team, clients, and prospects
What it takes
The selected candidate will have:
- Bachelor’s Degree in economics; 7+ years of working in the IT/Telecom industry, 7+ years of consulting - experience; previous experience in economic and demographic analysis
- Familiarity with a range of industry-specific analytic techniques, including econometrics, forecasting, modeling, and statistics
- Knowledge of IT/Telecom software to create effective proposals and sales presentations
- Strong office and statistical software skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced Degree preferred
Most important
This is what really matters to us in a candidate:
- Ability to build strong client and prospect relationships
- Ability to make a strong connection between economic/demographic drivers and the strategic requirements of consumer-oriented companies
- Thorough understanding of the analysis and needs of the IT/Telecom industry
Why apply
What we are about:
The company understands that their employees are their most valuable asset and that the quality of the company services depends on their employees’ knowledge, skill, and teamwork. This is a highly visible position in fastest growing division of the The company is committed to providing a work environment that encourages its employees to grow in capabilities, responsibility, and impact. This company is an equal opportunity employer.
Please email your resume along with a cover letter to positions@wallaceassoc.com
Wallace Associates Inc. Singapore Executive Management Recruitment: DIRECTOR OF SALES
San Francisco, CA or New York, NY
The Company
Our client helps the world’s media, information, and technology providers grow revenue, deliver superior solutions, optimize their clients’ performance, and thrive in a fast-changing global digital market. Our client advances the business of information as a company “that works” — for each other, their clients, their stakeholders, and their community.
The Job
Our client is looking for a proven top-producer, entrepreneurial-minded, highly motivated, results-driven candidate to drive new business within the company’s syndicated subscription services and manage a small sales team to deliver total sales results for the company. The company is looking for a strong player/coach who’s up for a challenge.
This key talent will drive sales of the company’s payment services by establishing and nurturing partnerships with various POS developers (ISVs).
The primary responsibility of this role is to engage with strategy, corporate development, and market intelligence executives in the information industry for the purpose of generating new sales for our Marketing Intelligence Service and develop leads for our custom research and consultancy services. You will manage the team that delivers renewals and sells new memberships and you will oversee sales production for the firm.
You will be responsible for developing a strong pipeline, representing the service, and closing new business in a predominately hunter role while providing forecast oversight for the firm and ensuring successful monthly performance overall. You are a hands-on individual contributor and team leader.
Key Responsibilities
- Meet/exceed assigned new business targets within a defined territory comprising large non-client organizations in the information industry and assigned accounts. Oversee sales production
- Generate sales through professional networking cold-call techniques, following up leads, and business development efforts
- Proactively prospect and build new business with effective pipe management
- Serve as a team leader for a field sales team member and two client services specialists focused on generating new business and client retention
- Develop forecasts for finance, ensure forecast accuracy, and deliver sales targets and meet or exceed them individually and for the team
- Develop sales plans for budget years and establish quotas and compensation plans
- Hire, mentor, develop, retain, and coach individual contributors
What It Takes
The selected candidate will have:
- Must have sales management experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 10+ years’ experience with business development selling to the information, software, or media industry preferred
- Solution selling orientation with the ability to quickly build credibility with executive-level audiences
- Powerful business development skills to repeatedly gain new clients
- Ability to speak the business language of C-Suite, Heads of Strategy, and CMOs
- Successful sales manager who has rolled up to a sales VP or has run a subset team and territory in a larger sales organization and is now looking for the next level up in a career move to run sales for an organization.
- Demonstrated history with running and growing larger territories
- Experience with Salesforce.com and hands-on use of it to develop and deliver necessary pipeline and forecast reports and sales performance
- Strong business-to-business (B2B) sales experience
- A strong sales record and familiarity with selling information and intelligence services or solutions to the information industry
- Solution-based sales experience with an emphasis on service-oriented products and new business activity
- Skills and confidence to call “high” and “across” organizations and to be part of growing the sales function as product execution ramps in the firm
- Polished, professional, good communicator, accountable, follows through with colleagues, and can present and discuss business issues in a cogent and concise way
- Comfortable in a fast-moving agile environment, can work across time zones, and communicate with individuals across many countries
- Business development experience (such as licensing) is a plus
Why Apply
What the company is about:
Our client we believes that information and knowledge are fuel for the human spirit. They foster understanding, discovery, enjoyment, learning, and commerce around the globe. Our client believes in a world where people always have access to the information they need, advancing their lives so they can advance the lives of others.
Our client offers flexible work hours to help their employees maintain a schedule that works for them.
Please contact our search firm:
positions@wallaceassoc.com
SENIOR ANALYST: P and C AND LIFE INSURANCE
Wallace Associates Inc. Singapore Executive Management Recruitment
The Company
Our client is an independent research and advisory firm focused on business, technology, and regulatory issues and their impact on the financial services industry. With expertise in banking, payments, wealth management, capital markets, and insurance, the firm’s analysts deliver comprehensive, actionable advice to key market participants in financial services. Headquartered in Boston with a presence in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London, and Milan, this organization works with its clients as a partner, advisor, and catalyst, challenging their basic assumptions and ensuring they remain at the forefront of industry trends
The Job
As a Senior Analyst within our insurance practice, you will strive to become a thought leader and a trusted advisor to insurance carriers and distributors, other financial institutions, and technology vendors. You will focus on providing actionable recommendations to our customers by producing research papers, interacting with clients, and leading consulting engagements.
Senior Analysts are expected to excel in the followings areas:
- Producing high-quality research papers on a monthly basis;
- Providing ongoing support to the financial institutions and technology vendors that subscribe to our research practice;
- Supporting the sales team in expanding our client base for our research and consulting practices;
- Securing speaking engagements on a regular basis at industry and client conferences and events; and
- Becoming a source of reference for the trade and top-tier press in their domain of expertise.
The selected candidate will have:
- At least 6-10 years experience in P&C and/or Life insurance at an insurer, leading technology vendor, industry analyst firm, or management consultancy
- Proficiency in technology and business strategies
- Proven written and oral communication skills
- An ability to formulate original analyses and actionable recommendations
- Proven quantitative analysis skills.
- Candidates must be fluent in English.
- Fluency in another language, such as French, German, Spanish, Mandarin or Japanese is a plus.
- A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required. An MBA is a plus.
Our client believes their success depends on the human and professional qualities of its employees. They seek well-rounded, personable individuals that can work independently with minimal supervision and also excel in a team-oriented environment. The company welcomes inquiring minds and provocative thinkers who, in addition to closely following their own sector, keep current with domestic and global social, economic and political trends and issues.
This organization has high expectations for the individuals they attract, and is committed to offering these individuals a professional and rewarding environment. Compensation consists of a base salary along with a bonus, which is based on performance.
Applicants should contact our search firm:
positions@wallaceassoc.com
WALLACE ASSOCIATES - SENIOR ANALYST: WEALTH MANAGEMENT
The Company
Our client is an independent research and advisory firm focused on business, technology, and regulatory issues and their impact on the financial services industry. With expertise in banking, payments, wealth management, capital markets, and insurance, the firm’s analysts deliver comprehensive, actionable advice to key market participants in financial services. Headquartered in Boston with a presence in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London, and Milan, this organization works with its clients as a partner, advisor, and catalyst, challenging their basic assumptions and ensuring they remain at the forefront of industry trends
The Job
As a Senior Analyst within our Wealth Management practice, you will strive to become a thought leader and a trusted advisor to financial institutions and technology vendors. You will focus on providing actionable recommendations to our customers by producing research papers, interacting with clients, and leading consulting engagements.
Senior Analysts are expected to excel in the followings areas:
- Producing high-quality research papers on a monthly basis;
- Providing ongoing support to the financial institutions and technology vendors that subscribe to our research practice;
- Supporting the sales team in expanding our client base for our research and consulting practices;
- Securing speaking engagements on a regular basis at industry and client conferences and events; and
- Becoming a source of reference for the trade and top-tier press in their domain of expertise.
The selected candidate will have:
The ideal candidate brings a solid industry expertise (10+ years experience at a introducing broker/dealer firm or a service provider to this wealth management industry segment, e.g., correspondent clearing firm, asset management firm, management consulting firm, or leading technology vendor); proficiency in technology and business strategies; proven written and oral communication skills; an ability to formulate original analyses and actionable recommendations; and proven quantitative analysis skills.
Candidates must be fluent in English. Fluency in another language, such as Chinese, Japanese, French, German, or Spanish is a plus. A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is required. An MBA is a plus.
Why Apply
Our client believes their success depends on the human and professional qualities of its employees. They seek well-rounded, personable individuals that can work independently with minimal supervision and also excel in a team-oriented environment. The company welcomes inquiring minds and provocative thinkers who, in addition to closely following their own sector, keep current with domestic and global social, economic and political trends and issues.
This organization has high expectations for the individuals they attract, and is committed to offering these individuals a professional and rewarding environment. Compensation consists of a base salary along with a bonus, which is based on performance.
Applicants should contact our search firm:
positions@wallaceassoc.com
Technical Support Specialist Job at Wallace Associates
Waltham, MA
The Company
Our client is the world leader in solving critical documentation issues for enterprise-level organizations and governments, enabling them to operate more efficiently and profitably. The company offers a full suite of software, training, and professional services based off their international content standard for creation, management, and deployment of mission-critical content.
The Job
This position will require a high degree of independence working in a dynamic but small environment providing primary support-specialists technical support contact for customer base and within the company.
The Technical Support Specialist duties will include:
- Provide technical support to clients using IM software.
- Software installation and troubleshooting for end-users.
- Ensure proper documentation and solutions of all tickets/incidents.
- Assist with updates and support of e-learning programs.
- Database and list management.
- Assist with software testing and quality assurance and control.
- Learning Management System administration and updates.
The selected candidate will have:
- Strong knowledge of MS Word including Styles and Templates.
- Telephone technical support including remote support tools.
- Solid working knowledge of Windows Operating Systems.
- HTML and web site development a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Professional demeanor and likes interaction with people.
- Ability to solve problems and adapt to ever-changing priorities
Our client is an industry leader who helps enterprise-level organizations and governments operate more efficiently and profitably. Our client offers a challenging opportunity, and an excellent compensation and benefits package in a business casual environment. Our client is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D.
Applicants should contact our search firm:
Wallace Associates
positions@wallaceassoc.com
Wallace Associates Inc Singapore Executive Management Recruitment
