Global Macro Portfolio Manager (Associate–VP)

GIC Private Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

GIC Private Limited in Singapore seeks an experienced Portfolio Manager for Discretionary Global Macro within the External Managers Department. The role focuses on building and running a portfolio, forming views, sizing positions, structuring mandates, and owning outcomes."

You will interact with senior macro managers globally, explore cross-asset opportunities across multi-asset, fixed income, and platform structures, and contribute to the fund’s strategic risk and return profile.

Qualifications

• Portfolio manager, sub-PM, or analyst supporting a discretionary Macro portfolio
• Rates, FX, or cross-asset Fixed Income trader or Macro strategist on the sell side
• Commercial instinct: you think in terms of expected return, risk taken and capital at stake
• Credibility with sophisticated counterparties; you can hold a substantive conversation with senior investment leaders
• Collaborative ambition; comfortable building relationships internally and externally, and a strong team player in a small, high-trust team

Responsibilities

• Form independent macro views and translate them into portfolio positioning, manager selection, sizing, and risk allocation across the book
• Lead the thinking on correlation, factor exposure, capacity, liquidity and drawdown management at the portfolio level, and push for innovation in how the portfolio is built
• Originate opportunities, run qualitative and quantitative diligence end-to-end, and build the commercial case for investment
• Design and negotiate bespoke mandates, fee structures, liquidity terms, risk parameters and co-investment or platform structures; shaping how the exposure is expressed, not just whether to buy it
• Continuously re-underwrite the thesis, act decisively when it breaks, and make timely add, trim, or exit recommendations
• Take your recommendations to the Investment Committee and defend them
• Surface differentiated insight to the team and to GIC at large

Job description

GIC Private Limited in Singapore seeks an experienced Portfolio Manager for Discretionary Global Macro within the External Managers Department. The role focuses on building and running a portfolio, forming views, sizing positions, structuring mandates, and owning outcomes."

You will interact with senior macro managers globally, explore cross-asset opportunities across multi-asset, fixed income, and platform structures, and contribute to the fund’s strategic risk and return profile.