Associate Derivative Portfolio Manager
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
A career with us means you’ll help our customers secure their future and protect the ones they love. It also means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what makes MassMutual a strong, stable, and ethical business.
Our culture embodies the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. By valuing people for who they are, how they think, and what they bring to the table, we’ve become a better, more innovative company.
We invite you to explore the possibilities.
What our employees say
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
Role: Associate Derivative Portfolio Manager
Department: Investment Management
Team: Quantitative Portfolio Management
Location: Boston - Hybrid
Position: Full-Time (3+ days in office per week)
The Opportunity:
The Associate Derivative Portfolio Manager will be supporting the management of derivative portfolios in one or more segments of the general or corporate investment accounts. This includes performing daily portfolio management activities, such as rebalancing risk and evaluating tactical relative-value tradeoffs, while also contributing to the research of alternative hedging strategies employing simulation and back-testing techniques. The Associate Derivative Portfolio Manager will work closely with teams across Investment Management, Barings, and Enterprise Risk. Multiple opportunities available with a focus on Rate, Credit, or FX derivative management.
The Team:
The Quantitative Portfolio Management (QPM) team has primary focus in asset-liability management (ALM), product pricing, and the formulation and execution of quantitative strategies that enhance policyholder surplus and mitigate unwanted risks in the portfolio. The team oversees all derivative-related aspects of MassMutual’s portfolio management process, managing exposure to interest-rates, foreign exchange rates, credit spreads, volatility, and equity. A small and highly collaborative team, QPM works with other groups across Investment Management to manage MassMutual's product portfolios and the approximately $250 billion General Investment Account (GIA). In addition, this high-profile group works with our other internal stakeholders including product, actuarial, treasury, accounting, risk, compliance, and external partners, including our primary asset management subsidiary Barings and the major Wall Street derivative broker/dealer counterparties.
The Impact:
The Associate Derivative Portfolio Manager will be accountable for the following:
- Support of daily portfolio management activities like review of current risk, recent activity, trade input, attribution, profit and loss, and lifecycle of portfolios
- Identify market opportunities, analyze alternative hedging strategies, and suggest transactions, to increase hedge effectiveness for portfolio management
- Develop bespoke simulation, back-testing and/or other research projects
- Collaborate with colleagues in other areas of MassMutual as needed – enterprise risk, corporate actuarial, finance and accounting, etc.
The Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of derivative market experience in at least one of the following: listed and OTC equity options, TRS, futures/forwards, CDX, interest rate swaps/swaptions, and cross-currency swaps
- Bachelors in a STEM or related degree
The Ideal Qualifications
- 7+ years of derivative market experience
- Strong background/understanding of capital markets and financial instruments
- Strong quantitative expertise: statistics, mathematics, and computer science (python / SQL required)
- Ability to develop market views
- Deep knowledge of derivatives in all dimensions – risk, economics, tax, accounting
- Advanced quantitative degree (MFE, PhD)
- Strong understanding of portfolio management and ALM in a life insurance company
- Strong communication skills and ability to discuss technical topics to non-experts
What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team
- Regular team meetings
- Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
- Access to mentorship opportunities
- Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
- Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
- Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits
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MassMutual is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply. Note: Veterans are welcome to apply, regardless of their discharge status.If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us and share the specifics of the assistance you need.
MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment.
Salary Range: $107,700.00-$141,300.00
Hiring Process
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Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure—it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to embrace diversity in every sense, focusing on building a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1250 annual wellness wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Full benefits details can be found here.
- In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to take care of yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.
- Medical and dental insurance
- Life, disability short-term and long-term insurance
- Well-being wallet: $1,250 per year for a wide range of qualifying wellness expenses
- Well-being support: Mindfulness, nutrition, fitness
- Personalized mental health solutions
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement programs
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- 401(k): Up to 10% total benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution
- Educational assistance program
- Childcare support
- Financial counseling
- Caregiver Leave (up to 320 hours)
- Maternity Leave (a total of 18 weeks, 10 maternity + 8 parental)
- Parental Leave (8 weeks for all parents, birth or adoption, continuous or intermittent)
- Bereavement Leave: Up to 15 days to mourn the loss of a loved one, and you define 'loved one'
- Matching Gift: 100% match on employees’ charitable contributions to non-profits up to $5,000
- Volunteering: Three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice
- Matching time: MassMutual Foundation awards dollars to organizations for which employees volunteer
- Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars
- Commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses
Why MassMutual?
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How we work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Where we work
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Springfield, MA
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