A career at Lombard Odier means working for a renowned global wealth and asset manager, with a strong focus on sustainable investing. An innovative bank of choice for private and institutional clients, our independently owned Firm is one of the best-capitalised banking groups in the world, managing close to CHF 300 billion and operating from over 25 offices across 4 continents.

With a history spanning over 225 years, Lombard Odier is an investment house providing a comprehensive offering of discretionary and advisory portfolio management, wealth services and custody. We also offer asset management services and investment strategies through Lombard Odier Investment Managers and provide advanced banking technology to other financial institutions.

“Rethink Everything” is our philosophy – it is at the heart of everything we do. We have grown stronger through more than 40 financial crises by rethinking the world around us to provide a fresh investment perspective for our clients.

With more than 200 professionals, our Investment Solutions department is responsible for providing sophisticated and customized investment proposals to our private clients and within this context we are looking for a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager to be based either in Geneva or in Zurich :

Your Role :

Manage assigned Fixed Income mandates focusing on investment-grade and cross-over credit instruments in developed markets, primarily EUR and USD, with the goal of achieving sustainable and risk-controlled outperformance compared to the respective benchmarks.
Assume responsibility for fixed income portfolio construction, bond selection, and risk management within defined investment guidelines
Portfolio management backup in the absence of Team members.
Manage relationships with our bankers and client portfolio specialists as well as external clients.
Contribute and taking part to our internal and external Fixed Income presentations and meetings.
Modeling the fixed income universe with economic and quantitative research in order to improve our interest rate risk and credit risk decisions within Global Fixed Income strategies.
Improvement of the Team's decision-making process with: macro, micro, instrument, and credit research.
Input for the further development of the organization, processes, procedures, and instruments .
Create and promote fixed income investment ideas, in close cooperation with our team of Analysts and Portfolio Managers.

Your Profile :

Education: University degree in Finance (Bachelor/Master) degree with a focus on finance or higher specialized education.
Further Education: AZEK and/or CFA. Specialized seminars with a focus on bond portfolio management.
Experience: High level of expertise in the global bond markets; detailed knowledge of the relevant market areas; good knowledge of corporate credit; well-developed knowledge of risk management. Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role in Fixed income portfolio management.
Specific expertise: Strong expertise in bottom-up bond picking, issuer-specific fundamental credit analysis, relative value and cross-sector bond assessments, and quantitative analysis (bond pricing, yield curves, duration management).
Skills: Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills. Team-player and a can do proactive attitude. High degree of independence and personal responsibility. Pronounced positive conflict resolution skills, creativity, communication and negotiation skills, high resilience.
IT tools: Excel, Bloomberg, Front-End Portfolio Management Tools. Phyton or R programming highly desirable
Languages: Fluent in English written and spoken. A good command of French is highly desirable. German is a plus. Any further languages welcomed.

Our Maison’s DNA is defined by five core values. Excellence drives us to be the best at what we do, while Innovation fuels our progress. Respect underpins every interaction, and Integrity shapes our actions. Together, we are One Team, united in serving our clients with unwavering dedication.

As a responsible and supportive employer, we promote a diverse and inclusive work environment for our employees and candidates. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are woven into the fabric of our Maison’s DNA, and we strive to ensure that our employees can fulfill both their personal and professional aspirations by encouraging internal mobility and individual upskilling programs. We firmly believe that building Diverse Teams contributes to our successes and to deliver on this, we actively embed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in our business strategy.

It is an exciting time to join our Teams. All applications will be handled in the strictest confidence.