Infrastructure Client Portfolio Manager, Senior Director

Barings • New York, NY

14d

About The Position

Barings is seeking a senior Client Portfolio Manager to support its Global Infrastructure platform across Equity, Debt, and Secondaries. The role serves as a strategic link among investment teams, Global Sales, Product Management, Marketing, and investors, helping drive capital formation, product strategy, investor engagement, and platform growth. The successful candidate will bring deep infrastructure market knowledge, strong client-facing credibility, and the ability to communicate complex investment strategies clearly to sophisticated institutional and wealth audiences. The CPM will represent Barings' infrastructure capabilities globally and, where appropriate, serve as a proxy for portfolio managers in investor discussions.

The role partners with Infrastructure Equity, Debt, and Secondaries teams and Global Sales to support fundraising, investor engagement, and go-to-market efforts. It contributes to infrastructure product and client-solution development, market positioning, and investor-facing materials. The position also supports platform leadership through investor and market insights, coordination across global teams, CRM records and reporting, and collaboration with Legal, Compliance, Operations, and other support functions. The position is based in New York, NY.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure investing, client portfolio management, product strategy, capital formation, fundraising, investment consulting, or a related investment role.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure equity and/or infrastructure debt, with the ability to develop fluency across both areas and represent an integrated global platform.
• Demonstrated experience supporting capital raising and engaging sophisticated institutional investors, consultants, wealth platforms, family offices, or other allocators.
• Strong command of private markets fundraising, investor due diligence, portfolio positioning, and product structures.
• Ability to communicate complex investment concepts, portfolio positioning, performance drivers, and market themes clearly and credibly.
• Credibility with investment professionals and technical capability to serve as a proxy portfolio manager in investor discussions, when appropriate.
• Broad knowledge of global investment markets, competitive trends, and the evolving infrastructure opportunity set.
• Excellent presentation, writing, relationship-management, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Ability to operate effectively across global, matrixed teams and manage multiple priorities with sound judgment and attention to detail.
• Collaborative, proactive, commercially minded leadership style and demonstrated commitment to mentoring and developing colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure Equity, Debt, and Secondaries investment teams and Global Sales to support fundraising and capital formation across institutional, intermediary, and wealth channels.
• Serve as a senior product and investment specialist in meetings with prospective and existing investors, consultants, and strategic partners globally.
• Guide investors through evaluation and due diligence by explaining investment strategy, portfolio construction, market outlook, performance drivers, risk considerations, and competitive differentiation.
• Build relationships with regional and global distribution teams and support the client engagement and fundraising lifecycle.
• Coordinate go-to-market strategies and use firm and investment-team relationships to identify and advance business opportunities.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of infrastructure products and client solutions, including commingled funds, evergreen vehicles, separately managed accounts, co-investments, and bespoke mandates.
• Work with Global Sales, Product Management, and investment teams to assess investor demand, market opportunities, vehicle structures, and product-development priorities across infrastructure equity and debt.
• Track global infrastructure markets, competitor strategies, fundraising dynamics, and emerging investment themes.
• Lead or coordinate investor presentations, marketing materials, thought leadership, due diligence content, and other platform-positioning materials.
• Bring investor feedback and market intelligence to platform leadership to inform product strategy, fundraising priorities, and messaging.
• Partner with senior Infrastructure leadership to align investment, product, marketing, and distribution priorities across regions.
• Ensure consistent and accurate communication of platform capabilities across strategies, client segments, and markets.
• Lead or participate in investor meetings, conferences, consultant engagements, and other external forums.
• Support responses to RFPs, DDQs, consultant requests, and other investor inquiries with relevant internal teams.
• Mentor colleagues and contribute to a collaborative, accountable, high-performing platform culture.
• Maintain timely and accurate Salesforce CRM records of investor activity, opportunities, preferences, status, and next steps.
• Report insights to platform leadership on investor engagement, fundraising activity, pipeline development, and market feedback.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Operations, and other Support and Control functions.
• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, conduct requirements, firm policies, and mandatory training obligations.

Benefits

• Medical coverage, including Virtual Care
• Prescription coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Fitness Center Reimbursement Program, including online memberships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Fertility benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) for health care and dependent care
• Retirement Health Reimbursement Account
• Basic and supplemental life insurance
• Spouse and child life insurance
• Paid vacation, sick days, and annual holidays
• Paid leaves of absence, including maternity, parental, caregiver, and bereavement leave
• Short- and long-term disability plans
• Paid volunteer time
• Education Assistance Program
• Charitable Matching Gifts Program
• Commuter Reimbursement Program
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed