Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Portfolio Strategy (Private Markets) - Vice President ...

Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management - Portfolio Strategy (Private Markets) - Vice President - London Job Description

Asset & Wealth Management Divisional Overview

A career with Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management is an opportunity to help clients across the globe realize their potential, while you discover your own. As part of one of the world's leading asset managers with over $3.14 trillion in assets under supervision globally, you can expect to participate in exciting investment opportunities while collaborating with talented colleagues from all asset classes and regions and building meaningful relationships with your clients. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the primary investment area within Goldman Sachs, we provide investment and advisory services for pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals.

Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally and invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds and sustainability. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open architecture programs. The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world's leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals. Goldman Sachs has over $3.0 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of December 31, 2025.

The Alternatives Portfolio Management Group is dedicated to optimizing investor performance and experience. The Portfolio Strategy team within the Portfolio Management group is focused on shaping the overall direction of Goldman Sachs Asset Management Private funds and portfolios. This includes developing insights, guiding portfolio construction, and utilizing fund modeling to optimize performance and support data driven decisions across the platform.

Key Responsibilities and Activities:

• Lead portfolio strategy framing across private market funds, evergreen vehicles, and custom client portfolios, aligned with mandate objectives.
• Drive portfolio construction decisions through clear, decision ready recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Lead Portfolio Strategy forum governance by surfacing key risks and trade offs early and ensuring accountable follow through.
• Provide subject matter leadership on investor experience (cashflows, performance drivers, liquidity and key risks) with consistent messaging across portfolio outputs.
• Partner with deal teams and internal stakeholders to align portfolio strategy with investment plans and constraints, escalating issues to resolution.
• Integrate financing and capital structure considerations into portfolio strategy and monitoring, clearly articulating investor implications.
• Support select fundraising and product development through senior level analysis and stakeholder ready recommendations.
• Advance Portfolio Strategy analytical frameworks and decision support capabilities to improve consistency and scalability of portfolio decision making.

Required Experience:

• 6-10 years of experience in investment banking, asset management, corporate finance, portfolio strategy/analytics, or a related investing/risk role; private asset experience preferred.
• Demonstrated track record of driving high impact investment and portfolio decisions through rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and clear articulation of trade offs and investor implications.
• Advanced portfolio and financial modeling experience, including the ability to develop, evaluate, and interpret complex models to inform portfolio decisions.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in structured decision forums-bringing strong ownership, process discipline, and the ability to identify issues early and drive closure.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver concise, decision ready recommendations to senior stakeholders and, as needed, clients or other external stakeholders.
• High standards for analytical rigor and clarity; ability to ensure consistency and quality across high visibility, time sensitive deliverables.
• Strong collaboration skills across teams and seniority levels in a fast moving environment.
• Preferred: experience advancing analytical frameworks and decision support tools that improve consistency and scalability of portfolio decision making.

DISCLOSURES

• Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• The material provided herein is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities relating to any of the products referenced herein.
• Views and opinions expressed are for informational purposes only and do not constitute a recommendation by Goldman Sachs Asset Management to buy, sell, or hold any security. Views and opinions are current as of the date of this presentation and may be subject to change; they should not be construed as investment advice.
• Although certain information has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable, we do not guarantee its accuracy, completeness or fairness. We have relied upon and assumed without independent verification, the accuracy and completeness of all information available from public sources.
• There may be conflicts of interest relating to the Alternative Investment and its service providers, including Goldman Sachs and its affiliates. These activities and interests include potential multiple advisory, transactional and other interests in securities and instruments that may be purchased or sold by the Alternative Investment.
• No part of this material may, without Goldman Sachs Asset Management's prior written consent, be (i) copied, photocopied or duplicated in any form, by any means, or (ii) distributed to any person that is not an employee, officer, director, or authorized agent of the recipient.

• Locations London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Benefits

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement: We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees' priorities.

Health: We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state of the art on site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness: To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre approved amount).

Child Care: We offer on site child care centers that provide full time and emergency back up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

Benefits at Goldman Sachs: Read more about the full suite of class leading benefits our firm has to offer.