Global Fixed Income Institutional Portfolio Manager (IPM)

Job Description

Fixed Income Institutional Portfolio Manager | MFS Investment Management

The Tone:
This is a full-time, hybrid role at MFS Investment Management, located in London, United Kingdom. MFS cultivates a culture that supports employees in their work, where teams collaborate to achieve better outcomes by valuing the strongest ideas. The company prioritizes its people, showing care and compassion for both its community and colleagues. What MFS does matters profoundly to its professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who depend on them for secure and prosperous futures.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid – London, United Kingdom

• Team: Positioned within portfolio management teams focused on Global Multi-Sector, Global Credit, Global Sovereign, and European-focused public fixed income investment strategies, reporting to the MFS Head of Institutional Fixed Income.
• Mission: This person represents investment teams in direct engagements with clients and stakeholders globally, serves as an investment leader for internal colleagues, and delivers marketplace insights to enhance investment processes and align with client objectives.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Represent: Serve as the primary external marketplace and MFS cross-organizational representative of respective investment teams, providing clarity and depth on investment philosophy, process, portfolio strategy, and global macroeconomic insights.
• Integrate: Integrate into portfolio management teams with strong credibility, representing the voice of the client and ensuring team awareness of client objectives and promoting high-quality investment standards.
• Inform: Deliver relevant marketplace insights into the Fixed Income investment organization, including important trends, developments, and competitive positioning, while contributing investment insights as part of portfolio team strategy discussions.
• Partner: Collaborate across distribution, product, and RFP teams to catalyze strategic initiatives, support the development of expanded investment capabilities and strategies, and assist in facilitating client deliverables and collateral oversight.
• Lead: Lead investment team preparation for optimizing client engagements.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior-level professional with expertise in fixed income investment within institutional asset management.
• Experience: Ideally 7+ years of experience communicating, collaborating, and developing strategic relationships with sophisticated institutional asset owners, consultants, and gatekeepers.
• Skills: Multi-dimensional knowledge of global and regional fixed income markets, including delineated rates and credit understanding; robust capability to deliver in-depth transparency for investment process, strategy viewpoints, and portfolio positioning within a global macroeconomic framework; broad written, verbal, and client-facing investment communication skills with the ability to tailor engagement across diverse levels of investment knowledge.
• Bonus: Desire and capability to travel extensively, with a particular focus on Europe and the Americas; Pan-European language skills.