Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”)- Liquid Credit Strategies (“LCS”) – Growth and Development, Principal

Business Unit:

Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”)

Job Title:

Principal

Job Description:              

The BXCI LCS Growth and Development team aims to develop and execute a global growth strategy to expand the platform’s scale and reach ensuring connectivity across BXCI and the broader Blackstone business.

The main areas of responsibility include:

• Credibly representing the LCS platform and investment views with clients and prospects
• Serving as a go-to investment specialist for incumbent client relationships
• Assisting LCS leadership in developing, prioritizing and executing upon strategies to achieve continued growth
• Assisting with coordinating LCS leadership marketing activities
• Partnering with LCS to prospect and grow the LCS platform
• Ensuring connectivity across the firm with other distribution partners (e.g., PWS, PCG etc.)
• Assisting PMs and LCS CIO with client capital allocation and implementation of client investment requirements, as well as new product idea generation and development
• Visibility in the market as a voice for the platform (i.e., speaking events, client engagements etc.)

Qualifications:                                 

Blackstone seeks to hire individuals who are highly motivated, intelligent, have sound judgment, and have demonstrated excellence in prior endeavors.  The successful candidate must have:

• 8+ years’ experience across consulting / portfolio management / client facing roles
• Deep knowledge and understanding of capital allocation needs across various credit and fixed income investor types
• Deep knowledge and understanding of current market dynamics and where the opportunities lie
• Fluency in speaking about the credit opportunity set – liquid / semi / private
• Extensive project experience => delivery of multi-faceted projects and relationship management with internal and external stakeholders
• Extensive client facing experience and client management expertise
• Excellent communication skills
• Growth mindset
• Ability to execute and bring growth concepts to fruition
• Strong relationship and partnership building skillset, ability to ‘bring everyone along the journey’
• New business / pitch / prospecting experience
• CFA / FIA / CAIA qualified

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive and additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position.  Assignments, duties, and responsibilities may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Expected annual base salary range:

$225,000 - $250,000

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual’s experience, skills, qualifications and job location. For roles located outside of the US, please disregard the posted salary bands as these roles will follow a separate compensation process based on local market comparables.

Additional compensation: Base salary does not include other forms of compensation or benefits offered in connection with the advertised role.

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Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client facing role and/or if you are engaged in the following:

• Attending client meetings where you are discussing Blackstone products and/or and client questions;
• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients;
• Supervising or training securities licensed employees;
• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products; and
• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or developing and/or contributing information for marketing materials.

Note: The above list is not the exhaustive list of activities requiring securities licenses and there may be roles that require review on a case-by-case basis.  Please speak with your Blackstone Recruiting contact with any questions.