Fixed Income Asia Institutional Portfolio Manager

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**

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**
- Integrate into portfolio management teams with a strong level of credibility and respect
- Serve as 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
- Deliver broad marketplace insights into the Fixed Income Investment organization, including relevant trends, important developments, and competitive insights and positioning
- Serve as the primary external and internal cross-organization representative of respective investment teams, providing depth and clarity on investment philosophy, process, portfolio strategy, and overall asset class insights
- Contribute investment insights and viewpoints as part of investment team strategy discussions
- Lead investment team preparation for optimizing client engagements
- Develop and support clear investment value proposition for respective strategies and partner across organization to ensure consistent understanding and marketplace delivery
- 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 and promote strategic initiatives, contribute to business planning and support overall organization-wide priorities
- Partner with investment and distribution teams to guide development of new investment strategies and capabilities
- Contribute to the development of thought leadership on important market and strategy-level topics
- 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 credibility with sophisticated institutional asset owners, consultants and gatekeepers
- Robust capability to deliver in-depth transparency for investment process, strategy viewpoints & portfolio positioning, with a refined ability to contextualize strategy-level perspectives within a global macroeconomic framework
- Broad knowledge of global and regional fixed income markets, global macroeconomic environments, and important institutional investment management trends
- Strong written, verbal, and client-facing investment communication skills, with the capability to effectively tailor engagements to constituencies spanning a range of investment knowledge and experience
- Demonstrated history of proactively and effectively engaging with organizational stakeholders to develop collaborative partnerships and contribute to successfully executing strategic priorities
- Desire and capability to travel extensively throughout Asia and Australia/New Zealand as well as to other MFS investment offices in London and Boston
- Local Asia region language skills positively viewed

**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.