VP/SVP, Private Equity & Real Estate Product Manager

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Citi Wealth brings together the full power of Citi to serve the entire continuum of wealth clients, from affluent to ultra-high net worth to family offices. The strategies we create help our clients maintain liquidity while maximizing yields, transact in foreign currency and across borders, and manage fluctuating expenses or cash flow. We are uniquely suited to helping our clients meet their banking needs across regions through our global network.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as VP/SVP, Private Equity & Real Estate Product Manager (Internal Job Level: C13/C14) based in Hong Kong. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future. For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.
• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That’s why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.
• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.
• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.
• We have a variety of programs that help employees balance their work and life, including generous paid time off packages.
• We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work. In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world.

In this role, you’re expected to:

Private Equity and Real Estate (PERE) Product Management (PM) is a global team of subject matter experts responsible for growing and supporting Citi’s platform of private equity and real estate offerings. Given the largely bespoke nature of the PERE platform, PERE PM acts as a central point of contact for a wide range of Citi’s capital sources to deliver a unified response from Citi’s many internal functional groups. PERE PM team members cultivate relationships with and drive execution across Citi’s global teams, including Research, Sales, Tax, Legal, Operations, Compliance, and all other relevant functions. PERE PM team members also drive highly responsive, proactive relationships with capital sources across Citi’s Wealth Investments platform, including Private Bank, Consumer, and Wealth at Work. Coordinating with team members across North America, EMEA, and APAC, the PERE PM team provides uninterrupted coverage to ensure both excellence in after-sales support – driving further platform reinvestment – as well as pre-sales training and engagement, identifying opportunities and emerging challenges.

Job Responsibilities:

The product manager will assist in the delivery of core PERE PM products and services, subject to the guidance of team members. Some of the team deliverables the product manager will be involved in encompass:

• Providing after-sales support, pre-sales engagement, and product management for the Citi AIMS globally distributed Private Equity & Real Estate product set.
• Acting as a central point of contact in unifying and delivering concise, prompt responses for products (via fund managers, PERE Research and Management, external fund administrators, etc.) and for investors (via Private Bankers, Investment Counselors, Financial Advisors, Wealth at Work, and other key partners).
• Drafting and publishing timely analyses of fund offerings for use internally and/or by Citi’s invested client base. The team’s publications constitute critical deliverables to the field.
• Managing ad-hoc projects as necessary, leveraging input and guidance from multiple internal and external sources.

Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree
• Working knowledge of alternative investments, with a focus on private equity.
• 5 years or more experience in a product management, sales support, product support, investor relations, investor services, or a similar role in financial services.
• Undergraduate degree required. MBA and/or CFA a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate effectively within the firm as well as externally.
• Highly ef