Managing Director, Head of Product Strategy and Management

Overview

As Barings’ Managing Director, you will lead the end-to-end product agenda for both public and private asset classes, shaping strategy and governance. You’ll unify product development, strategy and lifecycle management across global asset coverage, collaborating with senior stakeholders to translate investment capability into commercial products. You’ll guide a global product team and influence the investment platform, client groups and governance forums. This is an opportunity to drive multi-asset product strategy at scale and impact institutional, insurance and wealth clients.

Pay / Benefits

• base salary range $300,000-350,000
• incentive compensation

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year product roadmap aligned to firm growth strategy across public and private markets
• Define investment case and client/vehicle approach for new strategies
• Partner with Global Client Group, CIOs and investment leadership on capacity, sequencing and platform gaps
• Own fund and strategy launches end-to-end from proposal to go-live and governance
• Run periodic product reviews on scale, profitability, performance and overlap; recommend rationalization
• Oversee vehicle structuring across commingled funds, SMAs, UCITS, ELTIF and evergreen structures
• Own the fee and pricing framework including benchmarking and discount governance for launches and large mandates
• Oversee competitive and market intelligence on peer flows, fund terms and demand trends
• Lead product representation into board and governance forums and fund reporting cycles
• Build partnerships with Investments, Global Client Group, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Risk and Operations
• Lead, develop and scale a global product team across Charlotte, London and Asia Pacific

Key requirements

• 15+ years of asset management experience with a track record in product management or strategy
• Breadth across public (fixed income, equities) and private markets (private credit, capital solutions, real assets); depth in credit advantageous
• Proven experience leading fund and vehicle launches through institutional governance (US and European structures)
• Strong commercial judgment including fee and pricing strategy, profitability and rationalization decisions
• Experience serving institutional, insurance and wealth channels; familiarity with general account and insurance solutions preferred
• Track record of building and leading global teams and influencing senior stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication with executive/board presence
• University degree
• MBA, CFA or equivalent advanced qualification preferred

• strong communication skills
• leadership of global teams
• stakeholder engagement
• Market intelligence
• Product management
• Product strategies

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