Associate Credit Trader

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About Man Group

Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.

Headquartered in London, we manage $213.9 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com

* As at 30 September 2025

The Role / Team:

The Global Trading team maximises the execution alpha within the investment process through market knowledge, trading specialisation, leveraging best in class execution technology and rigorous execution research and TCA.

In this role, you will provide execution and order placement services to Man's investment engines. For the avoidance of doubt, traders are not permitted to take any investment decisions.

As a High Touch Associate Trader, you will help manage our discretionary credit and systematic macro strategies and develop a best-in-class trading platform for the firm. You will be part of a multi asset high touch trading team, with a primary focus on a variety of credit instruments including but not limited to Single Name Corp Credit (IG, HY, EM) Cash &CDS, Converts and ABS. We look for traders sharing our values of excellence, drive, meritocracy, and integrity.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Primarily help managing our discretionary credit trading strategies by maximising our execution platform and technology. Expand remit to trading Systematic macro strategies.
  • Coordinating the company’s involvement in primary offerings and secondary trading.
  • Liaising and partnering with the investment teams on execution strategy implementation.
  • Contribute to improvements across signal development, portfolio construction, risk management and trading.
  • Drive development of our trading platform, infrastructure and technology.
  • Use qualitative and quantitative analysis to improve performance of our discretionary trading strategies.
  • Develop and maintain relationships with our counterparties.
  • Collect market intelligence from sales / traders on news, market moves, flows and liquidity opportunities to keep the investment team informed on market dynamics. Adding to the company’s understanding of market microstructure, transaction costs, participants and products in the exchange traded products and OTC space.
  • Observing internal trading limits and any other restrictions on scope of delegated authority to act on behalf of designation fund/client.

Key Skills and Experience:

  • 1-2 years of experience trading in a financial institution or relevant credit technical experience.
  • Coding skills in a high-level programming language such as Python, necessary.
  • Knowledge of trading in a variety of credit instruments including but not limited to Single Name Corp Credit (IG, HY, EM), Cash &CDS, Converts, Loans and ABS.
  • Experience analysing OTC data or Exchange Traded Data.
  • Strong academic record and a degree from a leading university.
  • Hands-on and positive attitude, adaptability and resilience.
  • Team player, customer-focused and results-driven.
  • Attention to detail and disciplined. Able to work under pressure and in a high-paced environment, with the ability to think quickly.
  • Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving. Curious, entrepreneurial, and innovative, willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm.
  • Strong inter-personal skills to enable communication across investment management teams and regions. Clear, concise, and transparent communicator.

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