Executive Director & Yield Trader

Overview

The Senior Trader will be passionate about credit markets and directly responsible for transacting in markets, developing and maintaining sell side relationships, and generating innovative trade ideas.

• Execute voice and electronic trades providing best execution with a focus on Euro and Sterling high yield credit markets.
• Represent MSIM interfacing with the leveraged finance community to generate market color and trade ideas.
• Build relationships with sell-side participants to augment our profile with the dealer trading and syndicate desks, benefiting primary and secondary market activity.
• Be a value-added member of the high yield credit team to generate investment performance, in deep partnership with portfolio managers and analysts across regions, offices and asset classes.
• Pursue Market Structure development efforts that benefit our trading implementation.
• Enhance and work within the confines of best execution policies.
• Work within investment process to drive relative value analysis across client portfolios.
• Be a partner with compliance, valuation and operations teams.
• Provide additional support with the other fixed income trading desks as needed.

• Experience in high yield corporate credit trading, additional experience in investment grade convertible bond and loan markets is a plus.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail, high ethical standards and strictly adhering to firm's policies.
• Ability to handle pressure and work at a high level and multi-task.
• Demonstrate a strong work ethic and be a contributing member of the global investment team.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and organizational skills.
• Negotiation skills to achieve best interests of clients with broker/dealers.
• Strong technology skills, with working knowledge of Aladdin, Market Axxess, Trade Web, and Bloomberg.
• Bachelor's degree.

• Operates with a strong sense of ethics and integrity in your interactions with others and decision making.
• Takes accountability and ownership in your work with a focus on long-term value creation.
• Track record of fostering a culture of honesty, transparency and accountability within teams.
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams to deliver optimal solutions for clients.
• A passion for innovation, with a continuous improvement mindset to drive excellence.
• Respect for individual differences, with an openness to diverse perspectives.
• Engagement in community service, volunteering or corporate citizenship initiatives.
• Commitment to mentoring and supporting professional growth of others.
• Navigates change with confidence, maintains composure under pressure, and leads through uncertainty.