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Job Title: Infrastructure Equity, Senior Director
Corporate Title: Senior Director
Department: Global Infrastructure Equity
Location: New York City
Position Summary:
The Senior Director will be instrumental in the build-out and growth of the firm's newly launched Infrastructure Equity strategy within its Global Infrastructure platform. In this highly strategic role, the individual will lead the origination and execution of investments across North America and Europe while helping define investment strategy, portfolio construction, and the overall evolution of the platform. The role offers a unique opportunity to shape a differentiated infrastructure investment business and drive long-term value creation across core, core-plus, and value-add opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Source, structure, and negotiate transactions across sectors such as power and energy, transportation, digital infrastructure, and social infrastructure, in North America and Europe.
- Shape investment theses and convert them into actionable opportunities.
- Lead diligence, valuation synthesis, negotiation of key terms, and portfolio construction discipline.
- Drive value-creation planning, oversee KPIs, and participate at Investment Committee.
- Support capital raising through select LP meetings, diligence sessions, and conference representation.
- Manage and mentor future team members, driving culture, succession planning, and performance standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required, with Business or Finance preferred.
- 12+ years in infrastructure private equity and/or banking with demonstrated sourcing and execution success.
- Strong network of contacts in the infrastructure sectors.
- Expertise in structuring, documentation, and complex stakeholder alignment.
- Strong IC/Board communication presence and leadership capabilities.
- Experience closing complex, multi-stakeholder transactions.
- Proven origination track record and proprietary deal sourcing.
- Deep specialization across digital, power and energy, utilities, transport, or social infrastructure.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA/CFA/CAIA preferred.
- Solutions focused mindset; creative.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills; interact with members of senior management, executives and line staff in a positive and collegial manner.
- Must have strong leadership qualities, a client service focus and a high standard of professionalism.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and collaboration skills.
- Effective negotiator with demonstrated ability to achieve consensus.
- Ability to operate autonomously with transparency and integrity.
- Sophisticated financial skills, quantitative underwriting skills, and capital markets perspective with ability to structure investments to achieve investment requirements.
- Ability to prioritize and multi-task.
- Meet tight timelines and make key recommendations and decisions.
- Willingness and ability to travel.
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Base Salary Range: $240,000-280,000 and additional incentive compensation.
Requisite Skills Deal Origination, Infrastructure Investments, Investment Strategies, Negotiation, Private Equity
Additional Skills Barings is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; Minority/Female/Age/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Individual with Disability/Protected Veteran. We welcome all persons to apply.
Barings offers a comprehensive benefits package including: CORE BENEFITS & WELLNESS
- Medical (including Virtual Care), Prescription, Dental, and Vision Coverage
- Fitness Center Reimbursement Program (Including Online Memberships)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fertility Benefits
FINANCIAL WELL-BEING
- Highly competitive 401(k) Plan with Company Match
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with Company Contributions
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) - Health Care & Dependent Care
- Retirement Health Reimbursement Account
LIFE INSURANCE
- Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
- Spouse and Child Life Insurance
TIME OFF, DISABILITY AND LEAVE OF ABSENCE
- Paid Vacation, Sick Days and Annual Holidays
- Paid Leave of Absences (Maternity Leave, Parental Leave, Caregiver Leave, Bereavement Time)
- Short and Long Term Disability Plans
- Paid Volunteer Time
OTHER BENEFITS
- Education Assistance Program
- Charitable Matching Gifts Program
- Commuter Reimbursement Program
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement Program
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