Emerging Markets Corporate Credit, Vice President

About this role

BlackRock is one of the world’s 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 meticulous fundamental and quantitative active management approaches aimed at maximizing outperformance to highly efficient indexing strategies designed to gain broad exposure to the world’s capital markets. Our clients can access our investment solutions through a variety of product structures, including individual and institutional separate accounts, mutual funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and the industry-leading iShares® ETFs.

Your team

The Emerging Markets Corporate Debt team conducts fundamental corporate credit research across emerging markets and develops sector, thematic, and investment perspectives to support portfolio decision-making. The team combines issuer-level fundamental analysis with sector, macroeconomic, commodity, and market insights to identify investment opportunities across the emerging markets corporate credit universe.

Your role and impact

As a Vice President on the Emerging Markets Corporate Debt team, you will conduct fundamental corporate credit research across Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), while contributing to the team's broader sector, thematic, and investment strategy efforts.

You will combine bottom-up credit analysis with top-down sector perspectives, serve as a senior thought partner to portfolio managers, and contribute leadership and strategic direction across the team's research platform.

Your responsibilities

In every role at BlackRock, you'll be expected to apply sound judgement and critical thinking to solve complex problems, adapt as the business evolves, and combine the curiosity to explore new approaches and technologies with the rigor to challenge the results. The scope of this role also includes the following responsibilities:

• Have research responsibilities for a portfolio of corporate issuers across Latin America and CEEMEA.
• Conduct fundamental credit analysis, including financial modeling, capital structure analysis, covenant review, and scenario testing.
• Maintain active dialogue with management teams, banks, advisors, and industry participants.
• Develop conviction scores and actionable investment recommendations, and work closely with portfolio managers on investment ideas, portfolio positioning, new issues, and ongoing investment decisions.
• Identify catalysts, valuation dislocations, and changing fundamentals that may warrant portfolio action.
• Develop sector, thematic, and strategic views across the emerging markets corporate opportunity set to support investing and client communication.
• Gather and analyze industry, macroeconomic, commodity, and market data to support investment themes and outlooks.
• Contribute to client presentations, investment committee discussions, and thought leadership.
• Take ownership of select team-wide analytical and research processes, including conviction tracking, new issue evaluation, research prioritization, and AI-enabled workflow improvements.
• Mentor junior analysts and improve consistency and best practices across the research platform.

Your experience

• 8+ years of emerging markets corporate credit experience.
• Demonstrated expertise covering corporate issuers across Latin America and/or CEEMEA.
• Strong financial modeling, credit analysis, and investment recommendation skills.
• Experience interacting with portfolio managers and participating in investment discussions.
• Ability to develop differentiated investment views and communicate them effectively.
• Demonstrated experience using or helping implement coding, automation, and AI-based solutions (e.g., Python, SQL, Copilot, LLM-based tools) to improve research workflows, analyze data, and generate investment insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in one or more relevant foreign languages strongly preferred.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, tuition reimbursement, comprehensive healthcare, support for working parents and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s 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.

Guidance on AI use for candidates

At BlackRock, AI has long been part of how we work – enhancing decision-making, improving operations, and helping us deliver better outcomes for clients. We encourage candidates to use AI thoughtfully to learn, prepare, and work more effectively; but during our interview process, we want to focus on getting to know you through your own experiences, thinking, and judgment. To support you, we’ve provided guidance on when and how to use AI during our hiring process so you can approach each step with confidence and showcase your best self.

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 children’s 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. It’s why we’re 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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