Vice President - Investment Professional, Global Infrastructure Solutions - GIP

About this role

Description

BlackRock is seeking a qualified candidate to join the firm as a Vice President-level investment professional in the Global Infrastructure Solutions business, a division within Global Infrastructure Partners. The candidate will support the underwriting, execution, and ongoing management of infrastructure multi-manager investments with a focus on co-investments and secondaries in North America. The role is based in New York with occasional domestic and international travel.

Background

BlackRock is one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, risk management, and advisory services to institutional, intermediary, and individual investors around the world. BlackRock offers a range of solutions — from fundamental and systematic active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. 

Global Infrastructure Solutions (“GIS”) is a division within Global Infrastructure Partners (“GIP”), a part of BlackRock. GIP is a leading infrastructure investor that specializes in investing in, owning, and operating some of the largest and most complex assets across the energy, transport, digital, water, and waste management sectors. GIP & BlackRock manage a combined $180 billion in assets under management across commingled funds and separate account solutions focused on infrastructure investments.

  

Global Infrastructure Solutions is the firm’s infrastructure private equity multi-manager solutions group with offices in New York City, London, Zurich, Budapest and Hong Kong. GIS is a fast-growing, entrepreneurial business that builds and implements outcome-oriented infrastructure private equity portfolios for institutional investors globally through investments into secondaries, co-investments, and primary funds. The team employs a diversified approach, investing across sectors – including transportation & logistics, energy & power, digital, environmental, and social – as well as across geographies. With a track record of over 250 investments executed since 2008, GIS has one of the most experienced infrastructure multi-manager teams in the industry. 

Key Responsibilities

• Deal Origination: Source attractive investment opportunities across secondaries and co-investments, with a focus on North American transactions, through building and maintaining strong relationships with fund sponsors, intermediaries, limited partners, and management teams
• Project Management, Deal Underwriting & Execution: Lead the evaluation and execution of transactions, including: overseeing the development of complex financial models and analyses; managing workstreams and deal team members; negotiating commercial terms and structuring transactions; creating investment memos; and, presenting investment recommendations for approval
• Portfolio Monitoring & Management: Monitoring and managing investments; covering GP relationships; preparing materials in support of performance review meetings

Skills & Qualifications

• Relevant Experience: 5+ years of infrastructure and/or private equity investment experience in principal investment, secondaries, co-investment, and/or investment banking roles
• Education: Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record
• Tools: Expert in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Familiarity with AI tools
• Investment Capabilities: Proven quantitative capabilities and experience with building and analyzing financial models. Strong understanding of private equity, leveraged finance, project finance, and secondaries
• Infrastructure Expertise: Knowledge of and exposure to infrastructure subsectors. Familiarity with the infrastructure private equity manager universe and transactions
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as solid interpersonal skills
• Language: Fluency in English with professional competency in other language(s) desirable

For New York, NY Only the salary range for this position is USD$180,000.00 - USD$245,000.00 . Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, and benefits including healthcare, leave benefits, and retirement benefits. BlackRock operates a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy and your total compensation may vary based on role, location, and firm, department and individual performance.

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