Location: New York, NY, United States

Our Distressed Sales team is seeking a motivated associate for a client-coverage role in the New York office. A successful candidate will support our senior sales staff in covering a broad range of the largest institutional investors in the market including distressed investors, CLO managers, hedge funds, ETFs, and real-money.  The candidate will liaise with trading, research, syndicate, and other lines of business to deliver exceptional service to our clients while driving critical outcomes for the Leveraged Finance business. This role offers an opportunity to be involved with restructurings, LMEs, and investing in distressed credit. The opportunity will also afford the candidate to generate and execute trade ideas, provide market commentary, and raise capital for high-profile deals to the most consequential players in the HY and BSL market. 

Job responsibilities:

• Collaborate with and leverage JPMorgans trading, research, syndicate, and other functions to deliver the firms resources to our client base.
• Represent JPMorgans Leveraged Finance business to the institutional investor base and manage crucial client relationships to the firm.
• Pitch & execute distressed credit trades and investments across multiple products including, but not limited to: CDS, bonds, loans, RCFs, trade claims 
• Operate closely alongside the broader Distressed sales force to support our senior sales 
• Proactively generate trade ideas & market commentary to create revenue opportunities for the business
• Broaden the product bandwidth of our clients to increase focus on alternative credit (infrastructure, receivables, illiquids) and private credit opportunities (Trading, Financing)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 2+ year of relevant experience on a market making desk and/or in adjacent market-facing roles.
• Spread product experience strongly preferred (Corporate Credit, Securitized Products)
• Experience and aptitude in balancing & influencing internal and external stakeholder interests, with the ability to think clearly in high-pressure situations.
• Demonstrated interest and motivation to work within financial markets & with clients.
• Acumen to synthesize complex topics/products, and then explain them to other parties.
• Ability to think on a strategic level and identify future opportunities for business growth.
• Very strong communication written & verbal communication skills. Strong interpersonal skills.
• Proactive, motivated team player with strong attention to detail and excellent time management abilities to manage many consequential tasks simultaneously.