Quantitative Portfolio Implementation Analyst

Man Group•Boston, MA

2d•$85,000 - $100,000•Onsite

About The Position

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm. The Quantitative Investment Engines (AHL and Numeric) are aligning under Systematic (USD ~138bn AUM). As part of this integration, the Investment and Data Implementation (IDI) team is expanding into a new Boston-based team supporting the Man Numeric business. The global IDI team spans Hong Kong, Sofia, London, and now Boston. The Boston team is responsible for implementing new business and portfolios, maintaining the integrity of systematic models, and steering the long-term development of trading initiatives. The mission is to ensure every quantitative strategy is implemented with precision and aligned with its investment objectives. The team solves diverse, complex, and high-impact problems, acting as the primary responder for production issues, operational architects translating research into robust solutions, and liaisons explaining algorithm-generated trades. They also partner with technologists to design automated, scalable, and transparent trading architecture. This role offers exceptional exposure within Man Group's flat structure, with opportunities to contribute, propose solutions, and make decisions regardless of seniority. The role involves working with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, product structuring specialists, and traders, with support and opportunities to represent the global IDI team on cross-departmental working groups and present findings to senior management.

Requirements

Ability to manage complex projects and multiple priorities simultaneously in a dynamic, fast-paced business.
Excellent attention to detail and a highly collaborative personality.
Driven and proactive. As a foundational member of the Boston team, you must be comfortable working without a perfect playbook and possess the initiative to build and refine processes from scratch.
A keen analytic approach to problem-solving, distilling complex problems to enable timely resolution.
Strong verbal and written communication; the ability to interact confidently with portfolio managers and domain experts.
Dependable judgment under pressure.
A relentless focus on delivering value to the business and improving implementation processes.

Nice To Haves

High level understanding of quantitative investment processes and portfolio construction.
Experience with portfolio management and/or trading systems, along with proficiency in data analysis and process automation.
Experience delivering or steering complex projects, such as fund or Separately Managed Account (SMA) launches.
Commercial experience or a strong interest in using AI tools to drive workflow efficiency and business insights.
Generalist experience and exposures within buy-side systematic investment (Implementation, Front Office, Middle Office or Trade Operations).
Ability to use SQL and an object-oriented language (preferably Python) to investigate data and prototype solutions.
Proficiency in data reasoning techniques and relevant libraries (e.g., Pandas).

Responsibilities

Implement high-impact, real-time changes to the investment management and trading environment, including rolling out new quantitative research, launching new products, managing client and other constraints, and refitting existing products and strategies.
Orchestrate and coordinate the investment process for new fund and complex SMA launches, ensuring clear ownership across front-office and central functions.
Design and implement the new operating model for Equity Market Neutral, Equity Long Only and Fixed Income for IDI Boston.
Perform daily portfolio monitoring, manage compliance/constraint updates, and facilitate pre-trade order vetting alongside Portfolio Managers.
Manage and coordinate daily client flows (rebalancing, allocations) in close collaboration with Portfolio Managers.
Act as primary responder for production and trading issues across the systematic investment management estate and portfolio construction environment, leveraging smart tooling and, increasingly, AI and agentic workflows to diagnose root causes and execute manual workarounds for timely risk management.
Actively embrace and build AI skills and agentic workflows to pull relevant context, provide smart monitoring, and drive self-healing capabilities within the production system.
Work alongside peers across Systematic to define and deliver resilient trading system and platform development.
Use data analytics (Python/SQL/Pandas) to investigate complex scenarios — from simulating market restrictions to analysing exchange limit utilisation to validating strategy refits against production baselines.
Develop implementation analytics to provide commercial insights for the business.