Advisor Consultant Full-Time - Summer 2025 - Lord Abbett.com

About Lord Abbett:

Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we’ve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.

From the very beginning, we’ve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.

We’re looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.

 
Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?

Job Overview:

The Advisor Consultant role is for early career professionals who are eager to kick-start their careers and gain a broad range of skills necessary for continued success. You’ll begin with a comprehensive training program where you’ll gain invaluable experiences focused on client relationship management, consultative sales, and practice management. You’ll then join our Advisor Consultant desk helping to grow our business and to serve our existing clients within a particular region. As an Advisor Consultant, you’ll receive performance reviews and actionable feedback. Advisor Consultants are responsible for proactively engaging Financial Advisors within a defined geographic territory in an effort to enrich existing relationships, identify cross-selling opportunities, and originate new producers. Advisor Consultants help represent Lord Abbett to our client base and thus go through a rigorous and industry-leading training program which covers investment markets, investment products and presentation skills in addition to sponsorship for Series 7, 66, and SIE licenses. Advisor Consultants work in partnership with an assigned Regional Manager in an ongoing effort to elevate the investment conversation by thoughtfully positioning our products.

The Advisor Consultant role serves as the primary development pipeline for future Regional Managers (RM) across the West, Midwest, South, Southeast, and Northeast regions. Upon promotion, Regional Managers transition into the region they’ll oversee allowing them to enrich existing relationships, identify cross-selling opportunities and originate new producers.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• • Demonstrate a deep understanding of mutual funds, separately managed accounts, and retirement products
  • Understand current market conditions and the potential impact on our investment products
  • Proactively contact financial advisors to communicate actionable sales ideas and business-building opportunities
  • Partner with Regional Managers to manage and grow an assigned territory
  • Engage with Marketing to execute outbound phone call campaigns

• 0-3 years relevant experience in the financial services industry
• Ability to obtain the Series 7, 66, and SIE licenses within the designated time frame
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills 
• The aptitude to learn and adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment
• Real ambition to pursue a client-facing career, with a strong interest in relationship management and sales
• Ability to develop client relationships and strategic partnerships

Lord Abbett is a privately held, global asset management firm founded in 1929. From the day we first opened for business, our approach to investing for and serving our clients has been rooted in our core beliefs: Our clients always come first, our firm maintains a singular focus on the management of money, and our perspective is shaped by our independent thinking. These beliefs and our experience have empowered us to serve generations of clients, navigate changing markets, and earn the privilege of managing assets across a full range of global investment offerings. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

·         Principles-Led: We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust. 

·         Performance-Oriented: We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration. 

·         Purpose-Driven: We embrace our mission, securing a sustainable future for our clients, our people, and our world. 

We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $95,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance. 

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

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Without prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider (“Search Firms”) for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.

Please note Lord Abbett is not offering sponsorship for this role.