VP, Managing Director - Alternative Investments (onsite)

Job Posting End Date: June 06

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life's moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments

• Source, evaluate, and implement alternative investment strategies with a focus on risk, long-term return potential, diversification, volatility, capital/tax efficiency, and other client-specific considerations.
• Manage and monitor existing portfolio of investments, conducting ongoing evaluations of past and expected performance including stress/scenario analysis.
• Collaborate and communicate with a variety of internal partners such as senior management, investment strategy, ALM, and internal clients.
• Analyze the various risk factors associated with investment opportunities. Anticipate economic trends, market factors, interest rate sensitivity, etc. to evaluate and act on their implications for the investments.
• Oversee investment and operational due diligence (evaluating both quantitative and qualitative factors) on third-party fund managers, including on-site visits, coordinating with Unum's legal, tax and compliance groups where appropriate.
• Develop and manage external network for sourcing new investment ideas.
• Oversee all investment recommendations and present them internally for Investment Committee approval.
• Negotiate investment documents, working with internal and external legal counsel.
• Keep apprised of emerging industry trends and themes in alternative asset management and perform ad-hoc research projects as needed.
• Contributes to the development of overall departmental investment strategy by active participation in the Investment Committee, a subcommittee to the Finance Committee of the Board of Directors.
• Provide ongoing performance reporting at the fund and portfolio level, as well as ad hoc reports required by the client; deploy and utilize software as may be required to develop appropriate reports.

• Education level - MBA and CFA preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of investments, the economic environment and current regulatory environment.
• A minimum of 12 years of experience in investment management.
• Extensive experience in alternative asset management and portfolio construction, with track record of successfully analyzing and implementing a diverse set of investments. An understanding of the insurance company framework, including the generation of exposure to alternative investments in a capital efficient manner, is helpful.
• Strong technical skills to partner with asset and liability management, legal, tax and accounting contacts.
• Strong math, analytical and modeling skills.
• Strong written and verbal skills; as well as people and general management skills.
• Strong negotiation, persuasion and partnering skills.
• Ability to positively influence our corporate image in the marketplace.