Investment Director - Structurer
Join Legal & General Retirements Institutional as we help secure the financial futures of millions of people. In this role, you’ll play a key part in shaping investment strategies across sovereign assets and derivatives, contributing to long‑term outcomes that matter. We’re looking for someone who brings curiosity, rigour and a collaborative mindset to a team that values diverse perspectives and evidence‑based decision making. If you thrive in a fast‑moving market environment and enjoy solving complex challenges, we’d love to hear from you.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing and executing investment and structuring solutions across sovereign assets and derivatives including rates, FX and inflation
- Partnering with internal teams to support strategic asset allocation and new business initiatives
- Monitoring macroeconomic trends and market developments to help inform positioning and portfolio strategy
- Generating trade ideas to optimise hedging, relative value and yield outcomes across cash and derivative markets
- Building and enhancing analytical tools and models for valuation, scenario analysis and risk assessment
- Providing expert structuring insight to shape commercial decision‑making and investment strategy
- Supporting governance and risk management processes across the Funding & Derivative Management team
- Embedding Conduct Risk and Consumer Duty principles in day‑to‑day activity to ensure good customer outcomes
Who we're looking for:
- Strong expertise in fixed income mathematics, derivatives valuation and structured product modelling
- Experience in derivatives structuring, investment management or a technical markets role within banking or the buy‑side
- Ability to design, price and deliver structured investment or hedging solutions across swaps, options and sovereign markets
- Strong quantitative skills, including experience building or improving valuation and analytical frameworks
- Confidence interpreting macroeconomic trends and translating insights into actionable investment ideas
- Experience collaborating with trading, risk, legal and finance teams to deliver robust and scalable solutions
- A proactive, solutions‑focused mindset with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly
- A degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, physics or a related field
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience
