Sr Insurance Fixed Income Portfolio Manager
- Guardian
- New York, NY, USA
Job Description
Position Overview
The Sr Insurance Fixed Income Portfolio Manager will play a critical role in supporting the strategic management and governance of the company’s multi-billion-dollar public / private, Investment Grade and Below investment grade fixed income portfolio. This individual will work closely with the Head of Fixed Income and other investment leaders to ensure that portfolios are managed in alignment with investment objectives, risk tolerances, regulatory requirements, and broader enterprise goals. This role requires a strong understanding of fixed income markets, portfolio construction, risk analytics, and insurance asset-liability dynamics.
Key Responsibilities
Oversight & Monitoring
Perform regular portfolio reviews with our strategic partners to ensure compliance with investment guidelines, strategic asset allocations, and regulatory constraints.
Monitor key risk and performance metrics across all fixed income strategies (e.g., investment-grade corporates, structured products, emerging markets municipals, private placements, private credit).
Track exposures, liquidity, duration, convexity, credit quality, and other portfolio characteristics.
Manage a small team of portfolio managers
A focus on proactive idea and trade generation.
Strategic Support
Assist the Head of Fixed Income in preparing materials for the CIO, investment committees, board meetings, and internal stakeholders.
Contribute to the development and refinement of investment strategies aligned with insurance liabilities and enterprise risk appetite.
Collaborate with enterprise risk management and actuarial teams to ensure alignment of asset strategies with liability profiles.
Governance & Policy Adherence
Ensure portfolios adhere to internal policies, external regulatory requirements (e.g., NAIC, state regulations), and ESG considerations where applicable.
Support internal audits, regulatory exams, and internal governance reviews related to fixed income portfolios.
Investment Process Enhancement
Identify and recommend improvements in investment processes, oversight tools, and reporting capabilities.
Collaborate with investment operations, technology, and data teams to improve transparency, efficiency, and automation.
Manager & Strategy Evaluation
Assist in the evaluation and oversight of internal and external fixed income managers, including performance attribution, guideline compliance, and style drift monitoring.
Contribute to ongoing due diligence processes.
Qualifications
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, accounting, or related field required.
MBA, CFA, or progress toward CFA strongly preferred.
Experience:
10+ years of experience in fixed income portfolio management, oversight, or risk management, ideally within an insurance company, asset manager, or consulting environment.
Deep understanding of fixed income instruments and markets, including investment-grade credit, securitized products, municipals, and private debt.
Familiarity with regulatory and accounting frameworks for insurance portfolios (e.g., NAIC, GAAP, statutory accounting).
Skills:
Strong analytical and quantitative skills with proficiency in Excel, Bloomberg, Python and fixed income analytical systems (e.g., Aladdin, PORT, YieldBook, or similar).
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with ability to convey complex investment concepts to non-technical audiences.
Highly organized with attention to detail and a proactive, team-oriented approach.
Preferred Attributes
Experience with ALM (Asset-Liability Management) in an insurance context.
Track record of enhancing investment oversight processes or tools.
Salary Range
$200,000 - $270,000
The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
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At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
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As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Accommodations
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.
Visa Sponsorship
Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.
Notice Regarding Guardian’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment
As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at https://www.guardianlife.com/careers). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in our hiring process. All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.
Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to MyHR@glic.com, making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via MyHR@glic.com.
Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here.
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