Business Manager, Investments

Reporting to a Client CIO Partner, this business embedded Business Manager role will focus on reactive and proactive team and account staffing for business and client needs, identifying and partnering with the Human Resources team on skills-based, professional and career development, act as the point of contact for early career hiring programs and fully engage in lateral hiring processes, as well as the own the mentor program.

Key Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Strategic Organizational Design:
  • Partner with the Head of North America to design and evolve the organizational/team structure aligned to regional growth strategy, priorities, and operating model.
  • Assist with strategic workforce planning initiatives to ensure the right capabilities, roles, and capacity are in place to meet short- and long-term business objectives.
  • Help assess team effectiveness and recommend changes to improve decision-making, scalability, and collaboration.
  • Analyze talent, performance, and cost data to inform org design decisions and scenario planning.
• Internal Staffing Needs and Management – Client and team staffing responsibilities:
  • Allocate resources to Client account teams balancing workload, skill sets, and client demandsto ensure accounts have the right people, preventing burnout while maximizing firm efficiency and career progression.
  • Manage capacity, push back on unrealistic people demands, and facilitate career growth for early career team members by giving them quality and growth experience.
  • Actively monitor team member workload, skill development, and burnout levels.
  • Constantly assess team availability versus incoming new business, often pushing back on senior staff as appropriate.
  • Ensures teams have necessary headcount and the right talent for urgent or complex tasks; staff planning.
• External Hiring Needs – Team staffing responsibilities:
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition team to identify, assess, sell, and hire top talent for early career and lateral business needs.
• Team performance optimization and development:
  • Assists in designing talent development strategies that grow people through experiential learning, on-the-job exposure, and targeted education, building high-performing teams.
  • Create stretch assignments and project-based learning experiences aligned to business priorities.
  • Ensure right mentor pairs are established, set expectations, and monitor effectiveness.
  • Manage intern and analyst programs to included recruiting, hiring, onboarding, performance management, etc.

Key responsibilities may be assessed and are subject to change from time to time based on the needs of the business. The individual may be required to work overtime as needed.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Responsible for ensuring all information security processes, policies and procedures are adhered to and any issues or concerns are raised with the Cyber Security team.
• Ensure full compliance with all local data protection regulations and privacy controls, and any related issues are raised via the appropriate channels.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required with 7-10 years of experience in financial services.
• Business role experience embedded in organization with a focus on building and managing high performing teams. Experience managing business led people/talent programming in matrixed organizations.
• Ability to translate business strategy into capability and talent needs.
• Strong stakeholder management and consensus-building skills.
• Experience managing talent in results-driven, high-accountability environments.
• Ability to calibrate performance across teams via incentives and metrics.
• Navigate compensation, promotion, and recognition in pay-for-performance cultures.
• Highly strategic, organized, and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure in fast-paced environments.

Partners Capital is committed to being a great place to work. We are focused both on wellbeing and professional growth. You can expect professional development and career progression opportunities, competitive compensation, exceptional benefits, and a flexible “results-focused”…