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Head of Portfolio Specialist

Morningstar Investment Management, LLC
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/20/2025 CLOSED ON 2/15/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Head of Portfolio Specialist position at Morningstar Investment Management, LLC?

The Group:

Morningstar Wealth is a core part of the broader Morningstar group, empowering investor success by delivering world-class investment products and technology solutions to advisors, individuals, and the businesses who serve them. As a global team, we build upon our renowned data, research, analytics and thought leadership to deliver intelligent, flexible, and scalable products into the hands of our clients. By bringing the best of Morningstar together, we remove friction, save time, and help clients achieve goals.

We strongly prefer for this position to be located in our Chicago office but will be open to select cities where Morningstar is registered to conduct business.

The Role:

The Investment Management group is seeking a proven leader to serve as the Head of Portfolio Specialists. This dynamic individual will lead a team of Portfolio Specialists in supporting our advisory clients, home offices, and centers of influence by educating and promoting Morningstar Managed Portfolios product offerings across the wealth advisory landscape. This leader will also act as a senior liaison when representing our Investment Team for significant speaking engagements and industry events. This leadership role will collaborate heavily with the Investment, Product, Sales, and Marketing teams to refine the messaging and positioning of Morningstar's investment management capabilities and provide critical input on new product and service ideas based upon client and prospect feedback. The Head of Portfolio Specialists will report to the Managing Director, Americas for Morningstar Investment Management.

Responsibilities:

  • Create, demonstrate, and promote a standard of excellence across client facing teams when delivering Morningstar's Investment Management capabilities and offerings
  • Develop and lead a team of client facing Portfolio Specialists to equip and educate, both internally and externally, resulting in greater impact, improved advisory experience, and revenue growth
  • Set a standard of excellence and participate in training team members on the utilization of comparative analytics and competitive positioning to drive awareness, consideration, and revenue
  • Collaborate with Investment and Marketing Teams to deliver timely, relevant, and scaled communications to Sales and other key stakeholders
  • Contribute to the continuous refinement of our go to market strategy to better reflect the needs of our advisors, investors, and prospects
  • Work closely with Marketing, Investment, Product, and Design teams to create compelling presentations and collateral, highlighting the merits of Morningstar's Managed Portfolio offerings, to be delivered by all client facing teams for greater impact and revenue growth
  • Present at due diligence meetings, industry conferences, internal and external training sessions, and various other client engagements

Qualifications:

  • A bachelor's degree is required; an advanced degree and/or a CFA, CAIA, or CFP designation is highly preferred
  • Mastery of understanding of the wealth management, investment, and managed portfolio landscapes
  • Exemplary investment acumen and demonstrated ability to deliver complicated investment ideas and concepts to audiences of all levels of sophistication
  • Outstanding presentation, written, and communication skills applicable to all environments and audience sizes
  • Demonstrated expertise and ability to synthesize economic, capital markets, and behavioral finance content and concepts, including their implementation and application in financial planning and portfolio construction
  • Passionate about collaborating closely with team members to deliver excellence, impact, and empower investor success
  • Maniacal attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
  • Ability and willingness to travel (up to 50%)
  • Experience with Morningstar Direct and Morningstar Office is a plus
  • 10 years of industry experience preferred

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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Morningstar and its subsidiaries are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship, gender identity, parental status, or other legally protected characteristics or conduct.

 

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