Quantitative Portfolio Implementation Analyst

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated professional to bridge quantitative research, portfolio management, technology, trading, and middle & back-office teams. The analyst will partner with portfolio managers on the day-to-day operations of portfolio management, and collaborate with researchers, engineering, trading, and Man Group operations to ensure portfolios are managed accurately and our investment management infrastructure runs as intended.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio implementation: Implement high-impact, real-time changes to the investment management and trading environment, including rolling out new quantitative research, launching new products, managing client and other constraints, and refitting existing products and strategies.
• Orchestrate and coordinate the investment process for new fund and complex SMA launches, ensuring clear ownership across front-office and central functions.
• Design and implement the new operating model for Equity Market Neutral, Equity Long Only and Fixed Income for IDI Boston.
• Perform daily portfolio monitoring, manage compliance/constraint updates, and facilitate pre-trade order vetting alongside Portfolio Managers.
• Manage and coordinate daily client flows (rebalancing, allocations) in close collaboration with Portfolio Managers.
• Act as primary responder for production and trading issues across the systematic investment management estate and portfolio construction environment, leveraging smart tooling and, increasingly, AI and agentic workflows to diagnose root causes and execute manual workarounds for timely risk management.
• Implement Analytics And Improvement: Actively embrace and build AI skills and agentic workflows to pull relevant context, provide smart monitoring, and drive self-healing capabilities within the production system.
• Use data analytics (Python/SQL/Pandas) to investigate complex scenarios — from simulating market restrictions to analysing exchange limit utilisation to validating strategy refits against production baselines.
• Develop implementation analytics to provide commercial insights for the business.

Qualifications

• Essential: Strong attention to detail, analytical judgement, and strong stakeholder management.
• Technical proficiency (e.g. Python, SQL) is highly valued, though we are equally interested in candidates keen to learn these skills and use emerging AI capabilities to drive efficiency.
• High level understanding of quantitative investment processes and portfolio construction.
• Experience with portfolio management and/or trading systems, along with proficiency in data analysis and process automation.
• Experience delivering or steering complex projects, such as fund or Separately Managed Account (SMA) launches.
• Commercial experience or a strong interest in using AI tools to drive workflow efficiency and business insights.
• Generalist experience and exposures within buy-side systematic investment (Implementation, Front Office, Middle Office or Trade Operations).
• Proficiency in data reasoning techniques and relevant libraries (e.g., Pandas).

Skills

• Strong attention to detail and a highly collaborative personality.
• Driven and proactive.
• Comfortable working without a perfect playbook and possessing the initiative to build and refine processes from scratch.
• A keen analytic approach to problem-solving, distilling complex problems to enable timely resolution.
• Strong verbal and written communication; the ability to interact confidently with portfolio managers and domain experts.
• Dependable judgment under pressure.
• A relentless focus on delivering value to the business and improving implementation processes.

Benefits

The anticipated based salary range for this position is listed below. Compensation packages would also include benefits and a discretionary bonus. This is the base salary range that the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting based on the location and requirements of the position as well as the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant. The Firm reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

US Pay Range: $85,000 USD - $100,000 USD

Inclusion, Work-Life Balance And Benefits:

• You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity.
• Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values.
• Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry.
• You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too.
• Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.
• Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave.
• Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.
• Equal Employment Opportunity Policy: Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
• Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact TalentAcquisition@man.com.