Chief Product Manager in London

As a result of our pace of growth over the last five years, Schroders Capital's Private Debt & Credit Alternatives (PDCA) business is hiring a Product Specialist to support the continued growth of its business, notably its infrastructure debt platform.

The Product Specialist will be responsible for supporting all product related initiatives across our infrastructure debt investment strategies and act as a project manager to assist in all fundraising activities for existing and prospective investors from content creation, market research, investor queries, sales support, reporting processes to spreadsheet-based modelling/analysis.

We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

Schroders Capital is the Private assets platform for the Schroders group with over $90bln AUM. The platform incorporates Private Equity, Real estate, Infrastructure Equity and Private Debt & Credit Alternatives. Schroders Capital has ambitious growth plans for its PDCA business and the expansion of its real assets & private credit capabilities is one of the key Strategic goals of the group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Market research on competitors, target investors, infrastructure sectors/markets, ESG/sustainability trends.
• Contribute to new product launches in partnership with our internal stakeholders in product development, operations and legal.
• Prepare marketing materials related to our infrastructure platform for fundraising activities including presentations, flyers/fact sheets, internal documents, DDQs, quarterly investor newsletters and maintaining data rooms.
• Work alongside the Sales teams to support client servicing, account planning, as well as coordinate and attend investor meetings.
• Create, write, update and maintain all product language and data for products in the RFP databases and work with RFP and client portfolio managers to complete and customize RFPs, DDQs and RFIs as needed.
• Support the due diligence, set-up and execution of new mandates and client solutions.
• Prepare, understand, calculate and report portfolio characteristics, statistics, and other investment data for our products.
• Write product and client monthly and quarterly commentaries including market updates, performance commentary using attribution, positioning and outlook.
• Update consultant and client databases with product data and portfolio information.
• Provide ad hoc analysis and responses for daily product and client queries.
• Research, organize and attend relevant conferences to support core fundraising activities.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need:

• Bachelor degree required (CFA or advanced degree a plus).
• 2-5 years of work experience in investment banking/capital markets, placement agent, investor relations, financial accounting, management consulting or investment consulting.
• Knowledge of fixed income and private credit markets preferred.
• A good understanding of fixed income, credit alternatives and/or private credit is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team.
• Highly organized, pursuing a structured approach to deliverables with strong project management skills.
• Highly developed verbal, written and presentation communication skills.
• Strong content creation skills (high level of proficiency in MS PowerPoint) and strong technical/numerical skills (high level of proficiency in MS Excel).
• Strong networking skills and proactive approach to working with colleagues across the business, but equally adept at working autonomously.
• Highest ethical standards, integrity and discipline.
• Clear interest in Sustainability & Impact.
• Preference for candidates with additional European language skills.

Schroders is an equal opportunities employer. You're welcome here whatever your socio-economic background, race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious belief, age or disability.