Director, Head of Private Credit, Preqin Research Insights

About this role

Role Overview

BlackRock is a global asset manager and technology provider committed to helping more and more people achieve financial well-being. Continuous innovation enables us to bring the best of BlackRock to our clients - especially as we expand and strengthen our leadership in private markets, supported by Aladdin, our end-to-end investment, risk and data platform.

Private Credit is a key growth area for both the firm and for Preqin, Aladdin's private markets data business. In this context, the Preqin Research Insights team is seeking a Head of Private Credit to join the team in London.

The Research Insights team serves as Preqin's authoritative voice in the market and comprises more than 15 analysts across alternative asset classes, based in London, New York, Dallas, Singapore and Hong Kong. The team produces over 100 institutional research publications a year (www.preqin.com/insights) that are available to subscribers through Preqin's commercial platform (PreqinPRO), and have seen strong growth over the last few years. The team also presents at over 50 industry forums and hundreds of strategic BlackRock client engagements each year.

The ideal candidate will possess extensive knowledge of the private credit industry - (including the related ecosystem across Banks, Insurance and Wealth) and will be an excellent communicator in public settings, comfortable discussing industry trends with senior stakeholders across the industry. The ideal candidate would demonstrate strong horizontal leadership skills to connect with teams across the BlackRock ecosystem internally.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead Private Credit research: lead research agenda to position Preqin as thought-leader on private credit across the industry, in collaboration with the Head of Preqin Research and partners across BlackRock
• Client and media engagement: represent Preqin at industry events, client meetings and financial press engagements
• Team development: mentor a team of researchers that touch private credit across Preqin Research, helping to ensure the production of high quality data driven content that resonates with clients
• Stakeholder engagement: build strong relationships across BlackRock teams working on private credit, across investment, client, Aladdin and corporate functions
• Product leadership: provide feedback on Preqin Private Credit data roadmap, grounded in the understanding of market developments and insights that clients need

• Industry experience: 15+ years of experience preferred in private credit or related areas. The ideal candidate will possess deep understanding of the broader private credit ecosystem, including Banks, Insurance and Wealth.
• Communication: exceptional presentation skills and ability to confidently and succinctly respond to questions
• Problem solving: ability frame problems and to define path forward in the absence of a clear industry standard (particularly relevant in private credit where definitions of key concepts - like "ABF" - are still evolving)
• Writing and analytical skills: demonstrated ability to analyze complex datasets and crystallize meaningful insights
• AI proficiency: hands-on comfort using AI tools in daily research work (e.g., prompt-based research, synthesis, data exploration - with awareness of AI limitations) and prompt engineering fundamentals (ability to create, test, iterate, and evaluate prompts/workflows to achieve consistent outputs)

• CFA or CAIA qualification preferred
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and advanced degree preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.