Fixed Income Institutional Portfolio Manager

MFS; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm in London seeks an experienced Global Fixed Income Institutional Portfolio Manager. This role involves integrating into portfolio management teams, representing clients, and delivering marketplace insights. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in institutional asset management and strong investment communication skills. The position supports hybrid work, ensuring a balance between remote and onsite collaboration, making it suitable for applicants seeking a flexible work environment.

Benefits

Competitive benefits programs

Family-friendly policies

Work-life balance support

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience with institutional asset owners and consultants.
• Strong capability to communicate investment strategies.
• Knowledge of global and regional fixed income markets.
• Excellent investment communication skills tailored for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Integrate into portfolio management teams with credibility.
• Represent client needs within investment teams.
• Deliver marketplace insights and investment trends.
• Lead preparation for client engagements.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Investment Knowledge

Client Engagement

Multi-language Skills

Job description

At MFS you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

THE ROLE

The Global Fixed Income Institutional Portfolio Manager (IPM) is an integral member of the MFS Fixed Income investment organization. The role is positioned within portfolio management teams focused on Global Multi-Sector Global Credit Global Sovereign and European-focused public fixed income investment strategies. The IPM represents these teams in direct engagements with clients, prospects, consultants & gatekeepers and other marketplace stakeholders worldwide providing transparency of investment philosophy, process and portfolio strategy. The IPM also serves as an investment leader for internal MFS colleagues to shape investment narratives, share market insights, communicate portfolio strategy and serve as a subject matter expert in assisting the execution of strategic initiatives. Importantly the IPM also delivers marketplace insights to investment teams and contributes to ongoing enhancement of investment process and overall alignment to client objectives and expectations. The position is in MFS London investment office and will report to the MFS Head of Institutional Fixed Income.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Integrate into portfolio management teams with a strong level of credibility and respect
• Represent the voice of the client within investment teams and across the Fixed Income investment organization ensuring team awareness of client objectives sharing client feedback and promoting alignment to highest quality investment standards
• Serve as the primary external marketplace and MFS cross‑organizational representative of respective investment teams providing clarity & depth of investment philosophy, process, portfolio strategy and overall global macroeconomic & asset class insights
• Lead investment team preparation for optimizing client engagements
• Deliver relevant marketplace insights into the Fixed Income investment organization including important trends, developments and competitive positioning
• Contribute investment insights and viewpoints as part of portfolio team strategy discussions
• Partner with product and RFP teams to develop and support oversight of investment collateral and to contribute to facilitating client deliverables
• Collaborate across distribution teams to catalyze & promote strategic initiatives and organizational priorities
• Partner organisationally to support development of expanded investment capabilities and strategies
• Support a unified team‑oriented IPM organization focused on the development, execution and sharing of best practices

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Ideally 7 years of experience communicating, collaborating and developing strategic relationships with sophisticated institutional asset owners, consultants and gatekeepers
• Robust capability to deliver in‑depth transparency for investment process, strategy, viewpoints and portfolio positioning with a refined and flexible ability to contextualize within a global macroeconomic framework
• Multi‑dimensional knowledge of global and regional fixed income markets including delineated rates and credit understanding
• Broad written, verbal and client‑facing investment communication skills with the capability to effectively tailor engagement across a range of investment knowledge and understanding
• Demonstrated history of proactively and effectively engaging across multiple teams of organisational stakeholders in collaborative partnership
• Desire and capability to travel extensively with a particular focus on Europe and the Americas
• Pan‑European language skills very positively viewed

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At MFS we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly we encourage you to apply – you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.

What we offer :

At MFS we view our employees as family and like you we want our family happy and healthy. That’s why we provide competitive benefits programs and family‑friendly policies which support the work‑life balance needs of our employees.

MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote / onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability please contact MFS at or email for assistance.

MFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws. Employees and applicants of MFS will not be subject to harassment on the basis of their status. Additionally, retaliation including intimidation, threats or coercion because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State or local EEO law is prohibited. Please see the Know Your Rights : Workplace Discrimination is Illegal document linked for your reference.

Employment Type: Full‑Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1

Required Experience: Manager

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