Senior Investment Professional - Investment Grade Asset Class Portfolio Manager

Nationwide • Columbus, OH

246d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a team member in the Finance department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor, Internal Audit, and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. This is a hybrid role based out of our Columbus, OH location. The team comes into the office 3+ days a week. Nationwide's vision is to be the most trusted, most caring and most customer-focused protection company. We exist to protect people, businesses and futures with extraordinary care. The Nationwide Investments team manages approximately $140 billion and strives to combine client focus, investment discipline and teamwork to deliver superior results. The Nationwide Investments Public Corporate Credit Team is a dedicated group of experienced investment professionals focused on delivering superior investment results to our clients. This begins with our people and values which emphasize a positive culture and team dynamic that facilitate optimal relative value decision-making. As a Senior Investment Professional Investment Grade Portfolio Management, you will focus primarily on leading the assigned aspects of Investment Grade portfolios for the following portfolios: Nationwide Mutual, Nationwide Financial and Third Party Clients. You'll be directly involved in leading trading, fundamental credit analysis, monitoring activities, and relative value analysis of public investment grade fixed income securities and special situations to develop and implement our Investment Grade strategy. The goal is to meet client objectives by providing outperformance versus benchmarks and peers within portfolio constraints and risk guidelines while protecting the capital position of the enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree; Advanced degree and/or CFA desirable.
• 10+ years of related investment experience.
• Solid understanding of fixed income and financial concepts.
• Understanding of economics and capital markets.
• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• High energy, positive attitude, collaborative and team oriented.
• Composed and decisive under pressure or when challenged.
• Driven, self-motivated, and intellectually inquisitive.
• Creative, organized, responsive, and detail oriented.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to build constructive and effective relationships.
• Demonstrates ability to lead and/or influence people and/or strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for aspects of Investment Grade portfolio management, including development, execution and communication of asset class strategy across assigned accounts to outperform index benchmarks and peer performance.
• Responsible for the relative value analysis that includes yield profiles, total return estimates, volatility, risk, structure, sector, and fundamental research across corporate credit securities.
• Proactively generates investment ideas, recommendations, and asset class strategies across all sectors within the investment grade portfolios, including portfolio construction, position sizing, risk evaluation, and problem credit management to outperform benchmark and peer performance.
• Represent the Investment Grade team, including development of materials, to present asset class strategy, market risks, exposures, and market summaries / expectations to key stakeholders.
• Engage with credit trading and research to generate company and sector investment recommendations, produce an integrated and rigorous investment process, and generate strong investment performance.
• Manage overall relationships, communications and interactions with sell side broker/dealers, to best project Nationwide Asset Management to optimize our clients' long-term performance.
• Work closely with senior members of the credit team to provide input to improve and enhance portfolio management processes and reporting, set and engrain performance standards, and produce strong corporate credit investment results.
• Communicates performance attribution for each assigned portfolio, which may include performance relative to a benchmark, absolute performance over defined time intervals, and peer comparisons.
• As needed, execute and oversee operational processes for trade order entry and execution and ensure adherence to compliance and risk management policies for credit trading.
• As a fixed income leader, you will have indirect responsibility for overall team performance.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision
• life insurance
• short and long term disability coverage
• paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
• nine paid holidays
• 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
• 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• company-paid pension plan
• business casual attire

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree