# Japan Fixed Income & Credit Portfolio Manager, Managing Director

**Company**: BlackRock
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

The Japan Fixed Income team is part of the Global Fixed Income platform and is responsible for delivering investment outcomes across Japanese fixed income and credit markets.

As a senior investor within the Japan Fixed Income platform, you will play a critical role in driving portfolio performance and investment outcomes across Japanese fixed income and credit markets.

**Investment Leadership**

- Lead portfolio construction and investment decisions across Japanese fixed income and credit markets.

- Generate alpha through security selection, sector allocation, relative value analysis, and macro positioning.

- Develop investment views on credit markets, issuer fundamentals, interest rates and market technicals.

- Manage portfolio risk, performance, and capital allocation in accordance with client objectives and investment guidelines.

**Credit Investing**

- Maintain deep expertise across Japanese corporate credit markets, particularly high yield bonds, leveraged loans, and bespoke credit.

- Evaluate primary and secondary market opportunities across high yield bonds, leveraged loans, bespoke credit, investment grade credit, and other spread sectors.

- Partner closely with research teams to identify and implement high-conviction investment ideas.

- Contribute to investment discussions across regional and global fixed income platforms.

**Client & Platform Leadership**

- Represent investment views to institutional clients, consultants, and senior stakeholders.

- Support product development, thought leadership, and franchise growth initiatives.

- Collaborate with portfolio managers, analysts, traders, product strategists, and risk managers across the firm.

- Mentor and develop junior investment professionals and contribute to a high-performance investment culture.

**Requirements**

- Extensive investment experience, including significant experience focused on Japanese fixed income and credit markets.

- Demonstrated expertise investing across Japanese high yield bonds, leveraged loans, bespoke credit, investment grade credit, and related fixed income sectors.

- Strong understanding of portfolio construction, asset allocation, and how Japanese assets fit within a global investment context.

- Proven track record of portfolio management, alpha generation, and risk management across multiple market cycles.

- Deep understanding of Japanese issuers, credit fundamentals, valuation methodologies, liquidity dynamics, and market structure.

- Strong portfolio construction, risk budgeting, and performance attribution expertise.

- Experience managing institutional client mandates, including pension, insurance, sovereign, intermediary, and wealth-related assets.

- Ability to communicate investment views effectively to sophisticated institutional clients and internal stakeholders.

- Leadership experience within investment organizations, including mentoring and developing investment talent.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills in Japanese and English.

- CFA, Master's degree, or equivalent investment qualification preferred.

**Preferred Skills**

- Strong bottom-up fundamental credit analysis capabilities.

- Ability to combine macroeconomic insights with issuer-level credit selection.

- Experience identifying relative value opportunities across sectors, issuers, and capital structures.

- Strong understanding of trading, liquidity management, and portfolio implementation.

- Familiarity with portfolio analytics, risk systems, and attribution tools.

- Experience contributing to investment committees and strategic asset allocation discussions.

- Working knowledge of institutional portfolio management platforms preferred.

- Ability to leverage artificial intelligence capabilities to enhance investment processes.

**Benefits**

- Strong retirement plan

- Tuition reimbursement

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Support for working parents

- Flexible Time Off (FTO)

## Skills

### Required
- Japanese fixed income and credit markets
- Portfolio construction
- Asset allocation
- Risk management
- Credit analysis
- Investment leadership
- Client relationship management
- Japanese
- English

### Nice to have
- Bottom-up fundamental credit analysis
- Macroeconomic insights
- Relative value opportunities
- Trading
- Liquidity management
- Portfolio implementation
- Artificial intelligence

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