Portfolio Manager, Mutual Funds Team - Global Fixed Income Team, Vice President

About the position About this role BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock’s mission is to create a better financial future for our clients. We have a responsibility to be the voice of the investor, and we represent each client fairly and equally. Constant communication with a diverse team of partners strengthens us and delivers better results for our clients. Continuous innovation helps us bring the best of BlackRock to our clients. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from rigorous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs. The Global Fixed Income Group (GFI) at BlackRock handles more than $1.2 trillion in fixed income assets across index, active, and liability driven strategies. The platform offers fixed income investors one of the industry's broadest arrays of investment choices across index, model-based and fundamental investment styles. Group overview: This team focuses on broad macro positioning and the management of the day-to-day across unconstrained multi-sector fixed income portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Support the CIOs and senior portfolio managers in running portfolios, contributing to investment decision-making, portfolio construction, and risk management
• Ensure portfolio implementation across multiple strategies, ensuring efficient trade execution, liquidity management, and alignment with investment views
• Drive consistency of portfolio exposures relative to mandates, house views, and risk budgets, proactively identifying and resolving drift or unintended positioning
• Manage daily portfolio responsibilities including performance monitoring, risk oversight, rebalancing, cash optimization, and attribution analysis
• Ensure all portfolios adhere to investment guidelines, client mandates, regulatory requirements, and internal risk parameters
• Being a student of the market and contributing to trade ideas and PM team discussions
• Help develop automation, analytical tools, and scalable processes to improve efficiency and operational robustness across portfolios
• Lead and mentor junior portfolio managers and analysts, fostering a culture of accountability, rigor, and continuous improvement

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in portfolio management, trading, or investment related functions
• Undergraduate degree and demonstrated professional experience with proven passion for investing
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving ability in dynamic market environments
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to collaborate effectively across investment, trading, risk, and technology teams
• Experience portfolio construction (risk, trading, compliance, cash)
• A general understanding of fixed income markets including rates, credit, spread products, and derivatives
• High attention to detail with strong process discipline and operational risk awareness

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing or mentoring a team strongly preferred
• Proficiency in Aladdin (and the use of Aladdin tools)
• Strong technical skill set is a plus (including experience with AI, data analysis, automation, workflow enhancement, Python / SQL)

Benefits

• employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits
• strong retirement plan
• tuition reimbursement
• comprehensive healthcare
• support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about

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