Client Operations Manager

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking.  We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

Overview

We are seeking a Portfolio Events & Transitions Manager to join the Transitions team. This team serves as a central operational function overseeing the portfolio event lifecycle process including onboarding new accounts, terminations, in-kind transfers, and portfolio modifications.  The team plays a critical role in managing portfolio changes while minimizing cost, risk, and operational disruption. 

In this role, you will lead a team in the end-to-end execution of portfolio transitions, ensuring events are delivered efficiently, with strong coordination across stakeholders and minimal risk or disruption. This role is highly hands-on and requires strong judgment and end-to-end thinking across functions. You will operate at the center of the process, partnering closely with Trading, Portfolio Management, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to ensure separate account transitions are well-structured, aligned to portfolio objectives, and executed with discipline and consistency.  You will take a holistic view across the platform, connecting decisions across functions, anticipating downstream impacts, and ensuring transitions are executed in a coordinated and optimized manner at the portfolio level, rather than within functional silos.

Location

Newport Beach, CA

Responsibilities

The key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Transition Execution & Planning

• Lead end-to-end execution of portfolio events, including onboarding, restructures, fund changes, and terminations
• Define and implement transition approaches based on portfolio characteristics, liquidity, and client objectives
• Conduct pre-transition analysis, including cost, liquidity, timing, and exposure considerations
• Ensure transitions are structured and executed to optimize cost, risk, and market impact, while maintaining full compliance with investment guidelines, regulatory requirements, and client mandates

Stakeholder Coordination & Execution

• Act as the central point of coordination across Trading, Portfolio Management, Legal, Operations, Compliance, and external counterparties
• Drive alignment on objectives, constraints, and execution approach
• Manage timelines, dependencies, and issue resolution to ensure successful delivery
• Serve as primary escalation point for transition-related risks and execution issues

Risk & Cost Management

• Identify and manage key risks, including market, liquidity, operational, and execution risks
• Monitor and manage transition costs (explicit and implicit), ensuring transparency and accountability
• Evaluate outcomes and performance of transitions, including cost and execution effectiveness

Process Improvement & Operating Discipline

• Strengthen transition workflows and operating standards to improve consistency, scalability, and execution discipline
• Improve visibility into pipeline activity, timelines, and risk across portfolio events
• Identify opportunities to enhance processes, controls, and cross-team coordination

Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree required
• 5-15 years of experience in transition management, trading, portfolio management, or investment operations within an asset manager, transition manager, or institutional platform
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting portfolio transitions, onboarding events, or portfolio rebalancing activities
• Strong understanding of multi-asset portfolios, trading mechanics, and market liquidity, with the ability to assess how execution decisions impact exposure, cost, and client outcomes
• Working knowledge of economics, fixed income fundamentals, or portfolio management
• Proven ability to structure and execute transitions while balancing cost, speed, risk, market impact, and portfolio exposure
• Experience applying scenario-based decision making, adapting transition strategies based on portfolio characteristics, market conditions, and client objective
• Ability to evaluate second-order impacts of decisions, including opportunity cost, timing risk, unintended exposures, and downstream operational implications
• Strong judgment and decision-making skills, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs, anticipate downstream impacts, and operate effectively under uncertainty
• Solid understanding of investment compliance frameworks, including portfolio guidelines, regulatory requirements, and mandate restrictions, and the ability to incorporate these considerations into transition planning and execution
• Experience working cross-functionally in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Strong people management skills
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex portfolio and execution considerations into clear, actionable insights
• Familiarity with transition cost analysis, including implementation shortfall and performance measurement frameworks is preferred
• Experience improving or scaling operational processes, including workflow optimization, data transparency, or automation initiatives

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.

Salary Range: $ 137,500.00 - $ 195,000.00

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