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Octagon Credit Investors, LLC is a 30-year-old, $33 billion below-investment grade corporate credit investment adviser focused on leveraged loan, high yield bond, private credit and structured credit (CLO debt and equity) investments. Through fundamental credit analysis and active portfolio management, Octagon’s investment team identifies attractive relative value opportunities across below-investment grade asset classes, sectors, and issuers. Octagon’s investment philosophy and methodology encourage and rely upon dynamic internal communication to manage portfolio risk. Over its history, the firm has applied a disciplined, repeatable, and scalable approach in its effort to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for its investors. Octagon is majority-owned by Conning, a leading global investment management firm with a long history of serving the insurance industry. Octagon’s investment expertise is complemented by Conning’s deep understanding of insurers’ portfolio requirements and constraints. Octagon and Conning are part of the Generali Investments platform, an ecosystem of asset management firms operating in more than 20 countries, offering distinctive strategies and expert insights to help investors achieve long-term performance. Generali Investments is the asset management arm of the Generali Group, one of the world's largest insurance and asset management groups. Octagon believes that providing a challenging and rewarding career, combined with a supportive work environment, incents employees to remain at the firm. Significant employee ownership and low employee turnover also underscore our culture of partnership, teamwork, and dedication to preserving investor capital across all our funds/accounts under management. We also embrace the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion; our employees can bring the best version of themselves to work every day. We thrive in an environment where everyone’s voice is heard, every idea counts, and the differences of our employees are valued. Position Summary: The Vice President or Principal will serve as a Senior Analyst on the Credit Research team and will partner with members of the Investment Committee (“IC”) in utilizing their research expertise and industry knowledge to provide buy, sell, or hold recommendations on loans and bonds. They will perform in-depth quantitative and qualitative analyses for their assigned industry sectors by analyzing macro-economic factors and industry trends to assign internal ratings and investment outlooks. The Vice President or Principal will work to ensure that their recommendations help Octagon generate strong risk-adjusted investment returns. We are looking for an individual who is curious, eager to learn, excited to contribute and take initiative, and will help add value to the team. The Vice President or Principal will take on an integral role in helping to manage and contribute to Octagon’s overall portfolio management responsibilities, strategies, and success. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Research, analyze, and evaluate credit investment opportunities for assigned industry sectors, • Prepare and present investment recommendations to Octagon’s Investment Committee, • Analyze industry sectors from a long-term and short-term perspective to improve internal ratings and outlooks, • Collaborate and manage relationships with various counterparties both internally and externally (i.e., management teams, investment banks, private equity sponsors, other lenders, and our investors), • Monitor an existing portfolio of predominantly leveraged loan investments through updating investment tracking models, news releases, earnings calls, sell-side research, company filings, and industry conferences, • Evaluate changes in the economic, legislative, or business environments for assigned industry sectors which are likely to have an impact on investment strategy, • Make relative value trade recommendations on existing investments, • Work with, train, and develop a dedicated junior investment professional, • Support the development of technology-based solutions designed to improve internal recordkeeping, monitoring, and reporting capabilities, • Help answer questions pertaining to investment activity and follow up with solutions/process improvements, • Proactively take on ad hoc projects and provide support for new business initiatives, as needed Areas of Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities/Qualifications: • 5+ years of relevant and in-depth research experience with below investment grade credit and the loan/CLO markets, • 3+ years of primary industry coverage responsibilities, preferred, • CFA or MBA (or other related graduate-level business degree), preferred, • Comprehensive knowledge of credit and ability to overlay trading and fund management considerations into credit recommendations, • Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate in team environment, • Keen process focus and demonstrated ability to institute best practices across team, • Demonstrated track record of deep credit work and corresponding recommendations supporting above-benchmark performance, • Highly motivated, proactive team player with a positive attitude, • Excellent written and oral communication skills, strong analytical skills, and exemplary attention to detail, • Proven relationship and managerial skills, • Ability to multi‐task, be proactive, work independently, and work effectively under pressure (often under deadlines and changing priorities), • Comfortable interacting and building relationships with all teams (including senior management) across the firm and affiliated organizations, • Outstanding reputation of professional integrity and maturity Compensation and Benefits: • Competitive salary and eligibility for year-end performance-based bonus, • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, • Commuter benefits, • 401(k) matching program, • Employee Assistance Program (“EAP”), • Professional designation and licensure assistance, • Family support and leaves of absence Contact: Contact: Attention: Howard Barkin, Recruitment Manager Octagon Credit Investors is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or pregnancy), marital status, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. Please note that Octagon does not sponsor work visas or immigration-related employment benefits. We encourage all individual applications; please, no recruiters or agencies.

Job DescriptionEducation: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of applicable education and experience required;, • MBA or related graduate degree preferred.Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:, • Proven sales executive experience, and the ability of meeting and/or exceeding established targets;, • Previous experience as a sales executive, sales manager and/or sales and marketing manager;, • Ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level;, • Proven ability to drive the sales process, from the planning stage to the closing stage;, • Proven ability to articulate the distinctive aspects of the products and services;, • Proven ability to position products against competitors;, • Developing client-focused, differentiated and achievable solutions;, • Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation skills;, • Excellent verbal and written communications skills;, • Excellent Critical Thinking and complex problem solving skills; and, • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.Experience:, • 2 to 5 years of relevant job experience with similar essential duties., • Experience is consultative sales techniques and account planning (including account profiling, account positioning strategy, customer needs analysis, sales opportunity development, service improvement planning, and long-range account management strategies)., • Demonstrated sales experience (at least 2-5 years) in telecommunications sales and sales leadership experience.Job Summary:, • Determines and creates annual budgets, sales and gross-profit plans, by implementing marketing strategies, analyzing trends and their results;, • Establishes sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for BU, while projecting expected sales volumes and profits for existing and new products;, • Implements BU sales programs, by developing field sales action plans;, • Maintains sales volumes, product mixes, and selling prices, by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators, and competitors;, • Establishes and adjusts selling prices, by monitoring costs, competition, and supply and demand;, • Completes BU sales operational requirements, by scheduling and assigning employees, and following up on work results;, • Contributes to sales team efforts, by accomplishing related results as needed.Essential Functions:, • Prospecting and soliciting new business and drive customer acquisition for KDDI America., • Qualify prospects against company criteria for ideal customers and sales., • Understanding and clear articulation of the KDDI America value proposition, key differentiators and competitive positioning to prospects including C-level executives., • Identify and qualify business opportunities to sell product and service-based IT solutions., • Cultivate long-term relationships and build trust with C-level executives and key decision makers., • Leverage industry trends and come up with compelling value propositions to address client's needs, wants and desires., • Proactively manage day-to-day client needs, reporting progress to Director of Sales, and identifying new business opportunities across the client's full range of operations., • Stay up to date on the latest technology initiatives and solutions., • Complex enterprise network accounts involving Network infrastructure, network design and custom, • applications., • Carrying out consultative selling, account planning and account Management with a strong emphasis on customer service., • Synthesizing abstract concepts into solutions., • Working closely with Project Management and Operations in pre-sale and post-sale activities., • Provide timely and accurate sales forecasting information and periodically perform pipeline health management to reflect the realistic opportunity workload and value., • Focus on target attainment and conduct all necessary activities required to meet sales targets., • Be a positive representative of the company and its brand in the marketplace., • Conduct all sales activities with the highest degree of professionalism and integrity., • Recommends changes to current sales techniques and/or procedures, based on the team’s performance and new selling techniques; · Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage · Basic Life Insurance and AD&D · Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance · Flexible Spending Account (FSA) · 401(k) with company match · Paid Time Off (PTO): Vacation, sick, and floating holidays; plus 13 paid holidays · Tuition Reimbursement Program · Employee Assistance Program (EAP) · Wellbeing Solutions Program KDDI America, headquartered in New York, is the US presence of Japan's KDDI Group, a Fortune Global 500 company and leading provider of international IT and communications services. KDDI America was established in 1989 and started as a telecommunications business supporting Japanese multinationals. We have now evolved into a company that provides networks, data centers, system integration, as well as managed service solutions across all industries. Our ability to customize solutions in a major city offering scalability and service that are unparalleled set KDDI America apart from the competition. We provide Ethernet network uptimes of more than 99.999% between regions and guaranteed high performance no matter where. For more information on the information we collect about our applicants and how we use it, see our Privacy Notice at . Powered by JazzHR zjeuxcGiCf