Director, Infrastructure Credit - Alternative Investments in London

Country: United Kingdom

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Santander Alternative Investments (SAI) is the Group's €10bn alternatives platform supported by over €4.4bn in co-investment from Santander Group. This includes private credit, real assets, infrastructure, private equity, and GP stakes. SAI forms part of Santander Asset Management (SAM), a €255bn global asset manager operating across 10 countries across Europe and Latin America and with more than 50 years of experience. SAM combines the best of complementary worlds, technology and expertise, to provide optimal solutions for clients.

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The Difference You Make

As a Director within the Targeted Enhanced-Yield Infra Debt Fund, you will play a pivotal role in the sourcing, execution, and management of global infrastructure and energy private credit high-yield investments. This is a senior investment role with broad responsibility across origination, underwriting, structuring, execution, portfolio management and fund activity.

You will be expected to independently source and analyse investment opportunities, including originating directly with borrowers and leveraging relationships with sponsors, advisors, banks, asset managers and other market participants across Europe and the US. You will structure and negotiate transactions, conduct comprehensive financial, ESG, technical and legal reviews, and take responsibility for preparing well-reasoned investment materials and presenting proposals to the fund's Investment Committee.

Working closely with senior management, you will help implement the fund's investment strategy, ensuring disciplined risk management and sustainable long-term value creation. Alongside execution responsibilities, you will contribute to ongoing portfolio monitoring, produce clear and timely investor reporting, support fundraising activity, and build strong relationships with sponsors, advisors, counterparties and institutional clients.

This role requires an accomplished senior infrastructure credit investor with a demonstrated track record of sourcing, leading, structuring, executing and managing high-yield / junior infrastructure credit transactions. The successful candidate will bring strong autonomy and judgement, broad sector and geographic exposure, including experience in US transactions, and the credibility to command confidence in both internal and external forums.

To succeed in this role, you will:

• Evaluate investment opportunities in the infrastructure and energy high-yield private credit markets, leveraging relationships with companies, sponsors, advisors, banks, and asset managers across geographies.
• Originate directly with borrowers and through broader market channels to build a differentiated pipeline of investment opportunities across Europe and the US.
• Undertake the preliminary structuring and perform detailed credit, business model, and risk analyses of transactions, taking primary responsibility for drafting and preparing screening materials, investment committee memoranda, and related documentation.
• Conduct comprehensive due diligence processes, including financial modelling, legal reviews, ESG assessments, and analysis of technical, regulatory, commercial and market risks, ensuring robust and well-documented investment recommendations.
• Perform detailed cash flow modelling and cash extraction analysis to evaluate debt service capacity, downside scenarios, covenant resilience and overall investment sustainability.
• Drive the execution of approved transactions, leading negotiations of term sheets, financing agreements, and ancillary legal documentation, while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Implement and monitor Investment Committee decisions across the daily activities of the fund, ensuring timely and accurate execution.
• Actively contribute to the ongoing monitoring of portfolio assets, including performance analysis, covenant compliance, ESG reporting, valuation input, and financial performance tracking.
• Be actively involved in fund and asset performance reporting to investors, including preparation of regular updates, participation in investor communications, and contribution to NAV calculation and review processes.
• Support the fundraising activity for the fund, including preparation of marketing and due diligence materials and participation in selected investor interactions where appropriate.
• Collaborate with senior management in the development of new investment strategies and thematic priorities within the infrastructure and energy private credit space.
• Mentor and coach junior colleagues, fostering a high-performance and mission-driven investment culture.

What You’ll Bring

The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Professional Experience

• Proven extensive professional experience investing in junior Infrastructure & Energy credit, within an alternative finance provider, private credit fund or asset manager.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure & Energy financing and investment, with a proven capacity to structure and manage complex private credit transactions.
• Demonstrated track record in the sourcing, analysis, structuring, execution and management of infrastructure junior credit investments.
• Demonstrated ability to originate directly with borrowers and to build relationships across sponsors, advisors, banks, and other market participants.
• Proven ability to conduct comprehensive due diligence and analysis on infrastructure credit investments.
• Meaningful experience in US transactions, alongside broader European infrastructure credit investing experience.
• Experience in overseeing portfolio performance, managing assets, and supporting fund reporting - covering the preparation of investor reports, participation in performance reviews, involvement in NAV calculation and oversight, and other responsibilities typically associated with a private credit fund management role.
• Experience providing support in fundraising processes for infrastructure private credit funds, including the preparation of marketing and due diligence materials, coordination of data room information, and occasional participation in interactions with institutional investors.
• Strong technical expertise in legal, credit, financial and risk analysis, cash flow modelling, credit structuring and execution for infrastructure credit investments, with rigorous attention to detail and risk management discipline.
• Ability to operate with autonomy and sound judgement, and to command credibility in both internal and external forums.

Education

A degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Mathematics, or related disciplines would be advantageous, provided candidates demonstrate a strong professional track record in infrastructure credit investment within an asset manager or alternative investment platform. Professional certifications such as CFA, CAIA, or equivalent will be considered highly desirable.

We Value Your Impact

At Santander Asset Management, your contribution matters. We recognise the difference you make every day, and we make sure you feel valued, supported and rewarded in return. Here, recognition goes beyond pay. It’s about the pride you feel in your work, the impact you make for our clients, and the opportunities you have to grow and thrive — personally and professionally.

How We’ll Reward You

As well as a competitive salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• Hybrid ways of working providing flexibility to work from home 2 days per week (on average)
• We put 15% of salary into your pension, capped at £20,000 per annum, even if you don’t contribute yourself
• 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• Company funded private medical and dental insurance for you and your family
• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates
• As a Santander Asset Management employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services
• Wellbeing that goes beyond work — we work with a range of wellbeing partners across our 4 pillars of wellbeing (physical, mental, social and financial) to give you access to a suite of apps, discounted gym and fitness access, weekly online classes, flexible healthcare and mental health support
• Support for every life stage — from menopause and pregnancy to parenthood and beyond, with enhanced family leave, childcare options and tailored wellbeing support
• Global growth opportunities to shape your career, learn new skills and explore what’s possible across our international network

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Our Commitment

At Santander, we’re proud to be an inclusive organisation that provides equal opportunities for everyone — regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation. We’re committed to creating a recruitment experience that’s accessible, fair and welcoming for all candidates. We want our people to thrive — at work and at home — while delivering the best outcomes for our customers and supporting each other to grow. To make this possible, our roles are hybrid, with flexibility to work from home two days a week, on average.

Right to Work in the UK

Every individual must have the right to work in the UK to commence employment with Santander either by way of nationality, visa or work permit. If you do require a working visa / permit this will not influence our decision on whether to progress your application. However, if you do not have a right to work, or an application for a working visa / permit is unsuccessful, Santander will not proceed with your application and will withdraw any conditional offer previously made.

What to Do Next

If this sounds like a role you are interested in, then please apply. If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through email. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk.