Job overview
March 2, 2024
July 29, 2024
PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.
Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.
Tasks
PIMCO’s opportunistic corporate credit team manages funds with a private equity structure and focuses on investing in corporate opportunities across stressed/distressed corporate bonds and bank loans, direct lending, rescue financings, post-reorg equity, and other illiquid corporate securities. We are seeking a Portfolio Manager to join this growing team and play an important role in the build out of our European direct lending strategy with a core focus on origination and execution of direct lending transactions (both middle market and larger cap transactions). The candidate will be responsible for driving origination in Germany, the Nordics and other locations as appropriate, evaluating, underwriting and managing private credit investments and will interact across our investment organization; including Portfolio Management professionals within our private credit platform, as well as across the firm’s corporate research group. The candidate will also be involved in fund raising as appropriate.
- Source and evaluate new transactions, pre-screen transactions, conduct due diligence, prepare credit approval memos, pitch transactions to credit committee in order to obtain credit approval, negotiate and review legal documentation, and participate in deal closing
- Identify and develop strategic contacts with pertinent market participants including Banks, Advisors, Financial Sponsors and Direct Borrowers to support the sourcing of lending opportunities
- Manage portfolio accounts – monitor performance and covenant compliance, prepare periodic/annual reviews, examine amendments and waiver requests, provide performance updates to managers, identify and act on warning signals, participate in portfolio reviews
Profile / Your qualification / Your personality
- Minimum of 12 years of experience investing in middle market lending transactions, including origination and credit underwriting, and dealing with corporate restructurings with a strong track record across the private equity universe including bank loans, high yield, 2nd lien, mezzanine and equity.
- Strong experience in leading negotiations of credit agreements and other legal documentation
- Prior established relationships with debt advisory community (both advisory firms and capital markets executives at buy-side firms), private equity community and other direct lenders to drive idea flow as well as ease execution of ideas where collaboration with other debt holders is required or desirable
- Strong work ethic and integrity; you should be a team player that is proactive and self-motivated
- Good communicator, strong written and oral presentation abilities; needs to be persuasive and credible
- Additional European languages a plus but not required
That awaits you
We believe that active management is the responsible way to invest our clients' assets in fixed income.
For 50 years, we have worked relentlessly to help millions of investors pursue their objectives - regardless of shifting market conditions.
Our clients rely on an investment process that has been tested in virtually every market environment.
Bringing together our investment professionals from across the globe, PIMCO's investment process is designed to promote fresh ideas and differing points of view.
We innovate to give our clients an edge.
Innovation has long been part of the fabric of PIMCO’s culture. Explore how we assess shifting risks and opportunities to build forward-looking solutions for investors.
Application
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