Global Head of Research

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Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Asset Management is one of Europe's largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us - from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market‑leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long‑term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

We're recruiting for a Global Head of Research to lead an integrated Credit and Equity Research platform, overseeing a globally distributed team of analysts across London, Chicago, Singapore and Hong Kong. You will be responsible for driving the intellectual rigor, strategic direction, and collaborative culture of the research function and its interaction with portfolio managers across public and private markets while delivering the necessary output to other internal stakeholders.

You will be leading the Global Sector Research Model, integrating macro and micro insights and embedding financially material sustainability factors. Driving the adoption of technology, AI and advanced analytics to modernise and scale the research process. Playing a central role in Monthly Strategy Meetings, shaping differentiated investment insights. Guiding the ongoing evolution of the global research platform – including the integration of private‑asset research, to ensure it aligns with client needs, strategic priorities and a fully multi‑asset future.

• Leading and developing a globally distributed team of credit, equity and real‑asset analysts, fostering collaboration and consistent standards across regions
• Leading the modernisation of the research process by embedding advanced technology and AI to enhance efficiency, scalability, idea generation, and enable analysts to focus on the high‑value drivers of performance
• Setting and maintaining clear research priorities, ensuring high‑quality, actionable insight across asset classes
• Owning and evolving the Global Sector Model, aligning macro and micro views and embedding financially material sustainability themes
• Driving and integrating research outputs into investment decision‑making, delivering high‑conviction recommendations and supporting new initiatives
• Ensuring and enforcing consistent application of sector frameworks with clear accountability across teams
• Shaping and contributing to Monthly Strategy Meetings with rigorous macro‑micro synthesis and thought leadership
• Guiding and developing the future global research platform, including integration of private‑asset research and alignment with strategic priorities

Who we're looking for:

• Significant investment experience, ideally with prior buy‑ or sell‑side analytical responsibility
• Proven ability to lead the integration of advanced technology and AI across the research process, to enhance scalability, efficiency, screening, monitoring and idea generation
• Skilled in influencing senior stakeholders…