Corporate Bond Portfolio Manager (f/m/d) 80 - 100%

ZH

Full time

Swiss Life Asset Managers has a long and successful track record of managing Fixed Income assets. You will work in an international team managing global corporate bonds for internal and external institutional clients. The team is responsible for the credit analysis, portfolio strategy & trading and the communication with internal and external clients. We are currently looking to strengthen our Investment Grade Credit team with an experienced Corporate Bond Portfolio Manager (f/m/d). There is an intensive interaction with other credit teams (high yield, leveraged loans, infrastructure debt, and money markets) as well as with other asset classes such as Rates & Emerging Markets, Equities, and FX.

Responsibilities

  • Interlink between fundamental Credit Portfolio Management and quantitative Credit research team
  • Fundamental coverage of selected industry sectors and issuers including formal internal publication
  • Market screening for investment opportunities with a strong emphasis on relative value analysis
  • Management of Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolios including trading of bonds and related derivatives in Credit, Rates and FX
  • Actively participate in shaping the credit investment strategy and formulating the Swiss Life house view

Experience

  • Bachelor's or master's degree, and CFA charter holder or equivalent post graduate degree
  • Extensive experience (5+ years) as a portfolio manager, strategist, or in a comparable function
  • Expertise in applying quantitative methods to Fixed Income market data and processes. Programming skills a must (Python, R, SQL, and similar)
  • Ability to structurally enhance investment processes at various stages (analysis, portfolio construction, implementation) based on quantitative methods
  • Capacity to develop quantitative models to rate corporate issuers and to assign internal ratings based on those models in large scale
  • Confident and convincing team-player with strong communication skills
  • Highly fluent in English; German and French are a plus

Only direct applications will be considered for this vacancy and we do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies.

Benefits

Working conditions

Working conditions Our employees are our most valuable asset. At Swiss Life Asset Managers, we place particular emphasis on compensating them fairly and in line with the market. In addition to the basic salary, compensation consists of a bonus based on the company's success and personal performance. Full-time employees are entitled to at least 25 days off per year. We celebrate service anniversaries every five years.

Remote Working from Abroad

Remote Working from Abroad With our Remote Working from Abroad offering, we enable our employees to work from Abroad for a specific number of days per year

Grow with us

Grow with us For us, all employees are talents whom we want to promote in the best possible way. With this aim in mind, we have founded our own AM Academy, through which we provide our employees with a broad range of training opportunities. We also support them with external training and development.

Family

Family At Swiss Life Asset Managers we want to meet the needs of young families. We therefore offer female employees six months' maternity leave, of which at least 16 weeks are on full pay. Male employees can take three weeks' paternity leave. We recognise the value of caring and offer a wide range of childcare and family support services.

Flexibility

Flexibility We address the individual needs of our employees and aim to create optimal framework conditions. Employees of Swiss Life Asset Managers can work with their manager to determine the right working model for them (e.g. flexible working hours, mobile office, time-out models).

Health & wellbeing

Health & wellbeing The health and wellbeing of our employees is particularly important to us. To this end, we offer a sports club in Switzerland with an attractive offer. Our canteen in the main building offers fresh and balanced meals every day. Social Care Consulting offers confidential and personal support in the event of restrictions due to operational, health, personal or financial issues.

Discounts

Discounts Working at Swiss Life Asset Managers has many advantages. We offer our employees attractive discounts in the following areas: Swiss Life investment products; mortgages and financial planning; conditions for venturers; public transport; Reka cheques and meals allowances.

Pension and social benefits

Pension and social benefits We are there for our employees – in any case. We offer above-average benefits in the event of accident and illness. We also guarantee a discount of 65% on the premium contribution for pillar 3 life insurance and pay an average of 70% employer's contributions to the pension fund (savings and risk contributions).

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Swiss Life Asset Managers

We are a leading European asset manager and institutional real estate asset manager with locations in Switzerland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the UK and Norway.

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