Director, Investments, Front Office

This director role is primarily responsible for leading the sourcing, evaluation, due diligence, and monitoring of new investment managers and opportunities across multiple asset classes, with a focus on both public and private markets and developing, analyzing, and interpreting analytical models, reports, documents, and financial, economic, and market data on a global basis to support investment-related evaluations, decisions, analyses, and research. This role analyzes and makes recommendations based on manager reports, portfolio performance, attribution, exposures, and risk metrics, develops and enhances portfolio analytics and reporting capabilities, identifies and addresses portfolio imbalances, inefficiencies, and risks to improve portfolio structure, and proposes improvements to existing processes to optimize investment workflows and risk management.

This position is also responsible for monitoring and evaluating diligence checklists and timelines, partnering with the operations group to manage cash flows, overseeing the incorporation of third party software services and data into the process, and driving compliance with regulatory, statutory, and legal controls. This role leads asset allocation discussions and portfolio construction, oversees special research projects, stays current on new investment products, strategies, managers, and opportunities, leads manager meetings and presentations, cross-asset class meetings, and Investment Committee meetings to provide perspective on other classes and managers, provide market insight and actionable ideas, and communicate investment strategies effectively, represents the organization at industry conferences and networking events, and develops and maintains relationships with peer institutions, investment managers, and industry contacts to enhance KPs ability to source and oversee investment opportunities.