Distribution Support Specialist - Associate

The JPMAME Distribution Support team (“JPMAME DS”) supports a controlled flow of information related to Alternatives (AIFs, capabilities, strategies), SICAV Part II Funds, non-registered UCITS, and non-registered ELTIFs for marketing activities involving EMEA prospects, including support for JPMAME AIFs and selected third-party AIFs where JPMAME is mandated. 

 

Job Responsibilities

• Ensuring the safe selling of JPMAME products in EMEA, following local restrictions listed in the Conduct of Business Memoranda (CBMs)
• Performing marketing activity reviews and pre-clearance of marketing materials
• Validating reverse solicitations from clients and prospects
• Providing guidance on Cross Border and Private Placement rules
• Ensuring marketing and offering materials comply with applicable laws, rules, and regulations across relevant jurisdictions
• Supporting data room set-ups and approving data room access requests
• Providing guidance on pre-marketing vs. marketing requirements for new strategies and/or new fund launches

Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Experience in asset management distribution support, marketing governance, product support, onboarding support, or a comparable control-oriented operational role
• Strong attention to detail and comfort reviewing/approving marketing materials and access requests (e.g., data rooms)
• Working knowledge of UCITS and/or AIF structures and the practical implications for cross-border marketing
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; confident engaging with internal stakeholders across functions.
• Proficiency with standard office tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint) and comfort working with trackers/workflows.
• Direct experience supporting marketing material pre-clearance and/or CBM-driven restrictions in EMEA
• Familiarity with private placement regimes and reverse solicitation validation processes
• Experience supporting fund launch activities from a distribution governance perspective
• Ownership and accountability; follows through on commitments
• Risk awareness and sound judgement; escalates early and appropriately
• Stakeholder management and collaboration across functions and geographies
• Continuous improvement mindset; identifies ways to simplify, standardise, and strengthen controls
• Operate within the firm’s risk and control framework, maintaining appropriate records/evidence to support review and auditability of marketing governance activities
• Apply consistent review and approval practices for marketing materials, marketing activities, and data room access requests in line with applicable requirements