Asset Management - Customized Bond Portfolio - Municipal Portfolio Manager - Vice President

JPMorgan Chase; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase’s GFICC Municipal Bond Portfolio Management team seeks a Portfolio Manager to lead investment decisions and oversee ~SMA accounts. The role emphasizes active portfolio construction, credit oversight, and collaboration with research to identify market trends across municipal credits.

You will present market views, engage with clients, and help streamline portfolio processes while maintaining high standards of accuracy and responsiveness.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of buy-side portfolio management experience.
• Experience using Bloomberg.
• Adaptable, innovative, team player, and results-oriented with proactive solutions.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Playing an active role in investment and portfolio construction decisions for existing and new accounts.
• Collaborating with Credit Research to identify market trends and assess relative value across securities.
• Working with multiple teams to improve portfolio management processes and efficiency.
• Preparing and presenting market commentary and views to stakeholders.
• Meeting with internal and external clients and prospects.

Skills

Buy-side PM experience

Bloomberg

Communication skills

Team player

Detail-oriented

Problem solving

Tools

Bloomberg

SMA/Investortools

Job description

The Global Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities team (GFICC) at J.P. Morgan Asset Management is one of the world's deepest and best-resourced fixed income managers, with expertise across all major fixed income sectors, including niche markets. Every investment decision in our fixed income solutions is underpinned by the proprietary research of a globally integrated team of sector specialists, using a shared research language that combines fundamental, quantitative valuation and technical inputs. The GFICC team manages a broad range of strategies, including broad market, long duration, stable value, intermediate high yield, emerging market debt, short and ultra-short duration, global bonds, structured products, mortgages, and tax-aware strategies.

As a Portfolio Manager on the Customized Bond Portfolio (CBP) team within Global Fixed Income Currency & Commodities (GFICC), you will help manage our municipal bond strategies. CBP manages ~200bn billion in fixed income assets across ~100,000 separately managed accounts. The Municipal Bond Portfolio Management team invests and oversees ~35,000 separately managed accounts with $100bn in AUM, focused on Investment Grade municipal credit on both the active and laddered side, where rigorous credit oversight is integral to the selection process.

Job Responsibilities

• Playing an active role in the investment and portfolio construction decisions for existing and new accounts
• Collaborating with our Credit Research teams to identify market trends, analyze individual credits and assess relative value across securities
• Working with a wide range of teams to improve portfolio management processes and enhance efficiency
• Preparing and presenting market commentary and views, and responding to inquiries from stakeholders
• Meeting with internal and external clients and prospects

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Minimum 5 years of buy side industry portfolio management experience
• Experience using Bloomberg
• Adaptable, innovative, team player, and results-oriented, with an ability to bring proactive solutions to the broader PM team
• Excellent responsiveness and problem solving skills with a high attention to detail
• Must possess exceptional communication skills both written and oral and be able to communicate their thoughts to external clients and internal partners

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Separate Managed Account (SMA) and Investortools Perform system experience a huge plus
• Automation: Demonstrated ability to design repeatable reporting pipelines (API/export) using coding language of choice
• Systems fluency: Proficient with portfolio/risk and trading systems (e.g., OMS/EMS, risk, performance/attribution)