European Equity Long/Short Portfolio Manager
Location: London
The Role
A leading global investment platform is seeking an experienced European Equity Long/Short Portfolio Manager to build and manage a market-neutral investment strategy from London.
The Portfolio Manager will be responsible for generating differentiated alpha across European equities through deep fundamental research, disciplined portfolio construction and rigorous risk management. The mandate is designed for an investor with a repeatable process, a strong understanding of both long and short investing, and a proven ability to deliver idiosyncratic returns.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage a market-neutral European equity long/short portfolio.
- Generate high-conviction long and short ideas through fundamental, industry and company-specific research.
- Develop a repeatable investment process centred on differentiated insights, identifiable catalysts and disciplined risk-reward analysis.
- Construct the portfolio to maximise stock-specific alpha while controlling market, sector, factor and liquidity exposures.
- Maintain clear position-sizing, stop-loss and drawdown-management frameworks.
- Monitor portfolio attribution, factor exposures, crowding and changing market conditions.
- Partner closely with risk management, trading, data science and technology teams.
- Communicate investment theses, portfolio positioning and risk clearly to senior investment leadership.
- Recruit and manage analysts where appropriate.
- Continuously refine the investment process through post-trade analysis and performance review.
Candidate Profile
- Established track record in European equity long/short investing.
- Experience managing a market-neutral or low-net portfolio.
- Demonstrable ability to generate alpha from both long and short positions.
- Strong fundamental research, financial modelling and valuation skills.
- Deep understanding of European companies, sectors and market structure.
- Disciplined approach to portfolio construction and risk management.
- Clear and repeatable investment philosophy.
- Strong understanding of factor neutrality, liquidity, crowding and portfolio concentration.
- Ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
Preferred Background
- Experience at a leading hedge fund, multi-manager platform or institutional investment firm.
- Portable and verifiable investment track record.
- Experience building and developing an analyst team.
- Sector-specialist or generalist experience across European equities.
- Familiarity with alternative data, quantitative risk tools and technology-enabled research.
Compensation
- The role offers a highly competitive compensation structure, meaningful capital allocation and access to institutional-quality research, data, trading and risk infrastructure.
