About this role

Global Infrastructure Solutions Senior Infrastructure Investment Professional

Corporate Title: Vice President

Job Purpose / Background:

BlackRock is seeking an entrepreneurial, self-starting infrastructure professional to join a rapidly growing team in a fast-paced environment. The role focuses on originating and underwriting infrastructure multi-manager investments across Europe, with an emphasis on secondaries and co-investments. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical and conceptual skills with a passion for infrastructure investing, a flexible mindset, and a strong client service orientation. Working closely with deal teams across geographies, the individual will develop relationships with external stakeholders, collaborate with internal partners, and manage client relationships. The candidate should be an experienced infrastructure professional, ideally with experience underwriting secondary transactions or principal investments at an investment manager, fund of funds, or secondaries platform.

Background

BlackRock is one of the worlds 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 worlds 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.

GIS is the firms 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, with a focus on European transactions, through building and maintaining strong relationships with fund sponsors and intermediaries
• Deal underwriting and project management: Lead the evaluation of transactions, including overseeing the development of complex financial models and analyses, managing workstreams and deal team members, and presenting investment recommendations for approval
• Deal structuring and execution: Negotiate and structure transactions, including coordination of financing, structuring, tax and legal due diligence workstreams
• Portfolio monitoring and management: Monitor and manage existing investments, cover GP relationships, and prepare materials for performance review meetings

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Relevant Experience: 5+ years of infrastructure investment experience, with a strong preference for candidates with secondaries underwriting experience (GP-led and LP-led transactions) or principal investing experience
• Tools: Expert in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word and a range of AI models (Copilot, ChatGPT, Tolt etc.)
• Interpersonal Skills: Team player with strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, with experience coaching and developing deal teams
• Language: Fluency in English with professional competency in other language(s) desirable
• Education: Bachelors degree with a strong academic record

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRocks hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being.  Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their childrens educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment the one we make in our employees. Its why were dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

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