Solutions Strategist

LegalAndGeneral • Chicago, IL

2d • $120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

The Solutions Strategist will support the business development, structuring, and management of L&G, Asset Management investment strategies. The Solutions Strategist is the primary liaison between prospects/clients/consultants and L&G investment disciplines.

Requirements

• Broad knowledge covering investment products, the pension industry, and corporate finance
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Self-starter and team player
• 7+ years investment management experience
• Bachelor degree required

Nice To Haves

• MBA and/or CFA preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee prospect/client strategies to ensure they are optimized for prospect/client-specific investment objectives and constraints
• Develop and maintain broad knowledge of current investment market, economic issues, building block strategies, and L&G firm views, and in-depth specialist knowledge in product focus area (AFI, LDI, Private Credit, Multi-asset, Equity Solutions)
• This role will have a particular focus on our investment grade active fixed income offering
• Maintain a detailed understanding of market instruments applicable to the assigned clients/sectors
• Oversee development of systems for modeling/monitoring risk where appropriate
• Model the outcomes of different asset and derivative strategies to determine suitable investment strategies with an asset-liability context
• Prepare and deliver presentations to internal leadership, investment consultants, clients and prospects
• Oversee periodic update of marketing collateral and actively participate in effort to create new material to commercialize L&G's active fixed income offering
• Identify and execute opportunities to expand and enhance strategic client partnerships where appropriate
• Communicate with client and its stakeholders on all areas of our partnership, including investment strategy, performance attribution, macroeconomic landscape and L&G firm structure via engagements
• Use technical expertise to explain the outcomes of analysis for prospecting engagements and with our consultant partners.
• Work with the prospect/client and L&G investment teams to adopt mutually acceptable investment guidelines
• Respond in timely, comprehensive manner to ad hoc prospect, client, consultant and third party requests related to the investment strategy
• Work closely with distribution, account management, and onboarding teams to establish and implement client mandates
• Partner with Investment teams to produce and publish research/white papers that demonstrate L&G thought leadership innovation and support our value proposition to the marketplace
• Produce written market commentary for (monthly, quarterly) dissemination to prospects/clients/consultants as appropriate (function specific)
• Represent L&G at conference speaking engagements where appropriate
• Partner with Product group where appropriate to facilitate and support new product development and launch
• Maintain and promote client centric solutions-focused culture
• Work collaboratively and constructively with L&G internal groups on a day-to-day basis
• Promote information sharing and leveraging new ideas and best practices across the firm
• Development and mentoring of colleagues
• Offering support and assistance to other Strategists
• Teamwork (own contributions and enhance contribution of others), including product management and contribution to the evolution of LGIMA’s product and solution offerings

Benefits

• health insurance with an optional HSA
• short term disability
• long term disability
• dental insurance
• vision care
• life insurance
• Healthcare, Dependent and Limited Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401K
• vacation
• sick time
• an employee assistance program
• commuter and transit programs
• supplemental health benefits including accidental injury, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance and pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees