Trader, Currencies

About Us

Wellington Management offersprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

THE POSITION

We are seeking to hire a Currency Trader to focus on execution of orders from portfolio managers across our global book of business with an emphasis on foreign exchange (FX). This is an execution role, but there is significant opportunity and expectation to add value to client portfolios through collaboration with portfolio managers and analysts. The Trader will work collaboratively with our global trading teams located in Boston, London, and Hong Kong.

Wellington Management's trading philosophy and practices are based on the principles of seeking best execution, contributing to portfolio alpha, and managing regulatory, operational, liquidity and investment risks. We seek to execute orders in a manner consistent with these principles and in accordance with our written policies, which emphasize the fair dissemination, aggregation, and allocation of investment opportunities across our investment platform and ultimately our clients.

Wellington Management's Trading Department employs over 60 traders globally, including more than 20 Macro Traders focused on Global Rates, FX, Emerging Market Debt and Repo. Our investment and trading activities are conducted on an industry-leading internally developed technology platform, which we believe creates a meaningfulpetitive advantage. We are also supported by an in-house team of managers and quantitative and business analysts, who oversee the "business" of the department and provide in-depth, action-oriented insights into our trading capabilities and activities.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

The following essential skills are required for the role :

• Superior trade execution skills - The Trader will execute orders in a manner consistent with our best execution and risk management practices, as well as our policies and procedures. The ideal candidate will employ a mixture of both high- and low-touch execution methods for all relevant accounts under management. In addition, the Trader will gather, analyze, and disseminate pertinent market, sector and instrument related information that identifies actionable investment opportunities. Over time, the successful candidate will develop an in-depth understanding of the various investment philosophies of our portfolio management teams in order to add to the investment dialogue of the team. Monitoring and improving efforts to enhance efficiency while mitigating risk is critical.
• Superior collaboration skills - The successful candidate will enjoy being an individual contributor within a highly collaborative team and embrace the benefits of overlapping lines of responsibility. The Trader will build strong trusting relationships externally with counterparties and other market participants as well as internally with portfolio managers, strategists, analysts, and other traders. Through their relationships, the ideal candidate will solicit potential trade interest from portfolio managers internally and locate external supply. The ability to take risk and challenge investment views is critical, as is the humility to admit mistakes and a desire to learn from others; the Trader must recognize the benefits of diverse perspectives. The ability tomunicate (both verbally and in writing) action-oriented opinions clearly and with conviction and contribute to an open investment dialogue is important.
• Growth mindset - The flexibility and openness to continue learning, evolving, and growing as a trader is required. The successful candidate will have a global perspective and creative approach for thinking about innovation and the evolution of FX-related investment products and market structures.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

A successful candidate should have the following qualifications :

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That's ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and wee a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.

As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law . If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an amodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at GMWTalentOperations@wellington .

At Wellington Management, our approach topensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our strive to pay employees fairly andpetitively across all levels and roles. Our approach topensation considers all aspects of totalpensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variablepensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is :

USD 100,000 - 225,000

This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when makingpensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and totalpensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.

Base salary is only oneponent of Wellington's totalpensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and / or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer aprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we aremitted to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts andmuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition / CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize ourmunity and are essential to our culture. In support of thismitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.

Job ID R92380