LDI Solutions Manager

Liability Driven Investment (“LDI”) 
Solutions Manager Hire May 2024

Who we're looking for
Following a marked increase in new business opportunities we are looking for an LDI Solutions Manager with the experience and desire to shape our LDI solutions business - which is an integral part of our wider £230bn  solutions business. You will be responsible for helping to grow our LDI business in a robust and scalable manner, whilst maintaining the care, attention and client centric approach which Schroders is renowned for.
 
We are looking for someone who has the desire and ability to help us develop our offering, processes and materials, and to work with various internal and external stakeholders, so we can continue to deliver excellent client outcomes.

About Schroders 
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
We have over 6,000 people on six continents. We've been around for over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
 
The base 
We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre. 
 
The team 
The LDI Solutions team is a multi-talented team of 11 who work closely with our LDI portfolio managers and derivative structurers. We also collaborate closely with our wider solutions colleagues – which helps us deliver bespoke solutions that give our clients the best chance of achieving their investment objectives. 

We design and implement liability hedging portfolios and related strategies. Using segregated portfolios and our range of multi-client and bespoke pooled funds. Our solutions principally use physical gilts, gilt based derivatives such as repo and total return swaps, and interest rate and inflation swaps. In addition, we integrate these hedging strategies with complementary exposures including other derivative overlays (e.g. equity options, futures, currency hedges and synthetic credit exposures) and a range of credit strategies, particularly with respect to the implementation of our growing Cashflow Driven Investment business. Our clients are mostly UK defined benefit pension schemes, but they interact with us through a variety of governance models including both internal and external fiduciary managers.

We are always looking for ways to standardise and automate our day-to-day work, so we can give extra care and attention to the things that make a difference. We also take pride in creating interesting content that resonates in a clear, concise and compelling way.
 
What you'll do
•    Work closely with our clients and their advisers to understand their objectives and help deliver the outcomes they are targeting
•    Help us grow our business through involvement in new business opportunities, including: due diligence and pitching, and refining our messaging and the ways that we deliver it 
•    Capture and analyse clients’ liabilities, constructing portfolios and solutions that hedge the risks which they are exposed to
•    Coordinate and oversee investments in complementary strategies, working with specialists teams across Schroders
•    Present information at client and consultant meetings in an easy to understand and engaging manner
•    Lead on delivering specific key team initiatives and goals
•    Manage and enhance relationships, across various Schroders teams as well as with external stakeholders
•    Act as an ambassador for the team both internally and externally, in a professional and collaborative manner

What you'll be like
•    Self-motivated and enthusiastic
•    Flexible, highly curious and willing to learn
•    A structured thinker who’s also able to look at things from different angles
•    Great at unpicking a problem, from start to end, own and deliver the  solution
•    Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines
•    Great at working with other people, sharing and communicating decisions
•    Keen to improve what we do for our clients and how we do it

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need 
•    At least 5 years’ experience in similar roles at either asset managers, investment consulting firms or insurance companies
•    Experience with liability focused asset management solutions
•    An interest and understanding of defined benefit pension schemes, their liability structures and the instruments, including derivatives, used to hedge them
•    Care and diligence in completing accurate analysis and solution design, and the desire to make the way we do things more robust, scalable and efficient
•    Ready to lead prospective and current client engagement, and deliver complex concepts in a clear and concise way, both written and face-to-face
•    Desire to shape how we communicate with clients and to build and manage efficient processes to deliver information

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help
•    Experience with and understanding of complementary strategies; equity, credit and currency derivatives, credit-based solutions including CDI, or other integrated solution models
•    Prior experience coding (VBA, python etc.) to help deliver client solutions is not a requirement for the role but would be helpful  

We Recognise Potential, Whoever You Are
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic