Sales and Marketing Leadership Development Program

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC•Boston, MA

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments, and RiverSource, we're committed to helping early-career professionals learn, grow, and make an impact from day one. Throughout the program, you'll gain hands-on experience, work alongside experienced colleagues, and contribute fresh perspectives to meaningful projects across our business. Guided by our core values of putting clients first, acting with integrity, striving for excellence, and respecting individuals and our communities, you'll develop both professionally and personally. Through mentoring, networking, senior leader engagement, and community initiatives, you'll build valuable skills, expand your network and discover what's possible across a global financial organization. As a participant in the Sales and Marketing Leadership Development Program, you'll gain hands-on experience across multiple business areas through four six-month rotations. Working alongside sales, marketing, product, and client relationship teams, you'll contribute to projects that support business growth, strengthen client engagement, and enhance the delivery of investment solutions. Depending on your rotation, responsibilities may include developing marketing materials, supporting go-to-market campaigns, conducting market and competitor analysis, assisting with data reporting and modelling, and providing sales support. You'll also help maintain client and prospect information, prepare business insights for meetings, support institutional client relationships, and collaborate with colleagues across the organization to deliver a high level of service.

Requirements

Current Senior at a 4-year university pursing a bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Economics, or related field
Graduation date of December 2026 or May/June 2027
Commitment to complete the full 24-month Leadership Development Program, starting June 2027
Commitment to obtain Series 7 (or SIE and Series 7 top-off exam) and Series 66 (or 63 & 65 combined) within a defined period
Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).

Nice To Haves

High degree of self-motivation with strong integrity and ethics
Proven organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities
Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
Ability to work and communicate collaboratively with all levels of the organization including team members, managers, and senior leaders
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

Developing and maintaining marketing collateral that effectively communicates our brand, investment capabilities, and products to financial advisors and institutional investors
Supporting go-to-market marketing campaigns that effectively reach our target audience through digital, event and in-person activations
Partnering with the product team to conduct competitive marketplace analysis
Assisting colleagues with data modeling and reporting
Providing general multi-channel sales support
Supporting the sales team with prospect and opportunity analysis, and meeting preparation
Collaborating with consultant relations and relationship management teams to provide support to our institutional clients and consultant relationships
Working with sales and relationship management teams to update prospect and client profiles in the account management system
Creating target client and prospect lists for focus strategies with consultant ratings
Providing continuous inbound marketing support, sales assistance and follow-up to brokers/producers and wholesalers to maintain a high level of service to priority broker/dealers
Maintaining management software and inputs to literature orders