About the Role
Marathon Asset Management is a leading global asset manager specializing in public and private credit with ~$24 billion in assets under management. Marathon is recognized as a distinguished leader with 27+ years of exceptional performance and partnership. Marathon’s integrated global credit platform is driven by our specialized, highly experienced, and disciplined teams across Private Credit: Direct Lending, Asset Based Lending and Opportunistic Credit and Public Credit: High Yield, Leveraged Loans & CLOs, Emerging Markets, and Structured Credit. Marathon’s mission is to build lasting partnerships with an unwavering commitment to delivering best-in-class performance, service, and reliability on behalf of our clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead Marathon’s sponsor coverage initiative within the Opportunistic Credit platform, with a focus on middle-market and upper middle-market private equity sponsors.
- Originate differentiated private credit opportunities with a target return of mid-teen gross IRR across industries / capital structure.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with sponsors, management teams, and intermediaries to generate proprietary deal flow.
- Drive coverage strategy by prioritizing sponsor relationships, implementing tracking systems (CRM), and institutionalizing an effective outreach and follow-up framework.
- Partner with investment team colleagues on underwriting, structuring, and executing investment opportunities.
- Generate actionable intelligence on portfolio company activity, liquidity needs, and refinancing or recapitalization events.
- Represent Marathon in the market with professionalism and credibility, reinforcing the firm’s broader reputation in credit while helping expand its footprint.
- Collaborate internally with legal, capital markets, and portfolio operations teams to ensure investment execution and post-close engagement are seamless.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from top tier university
- 15+ years of experience in investment banking within a coverage team, or cash flow lending with existing sponsor relationships and originations responsibilities
- Proven ability to develop and maintain sponsor relationships, with a middle-market / upper middle-market focus preferred
- Possess strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a rapidly evolving environment; strong attention to detail with a proven ability to multi-task
- Demonstrated strong work ethic, commitment to excellence, and unquestionable integrity
- Highly motivated self-starter who is coachable; willing to embrace a collaborative firm culture
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000-$300,000
Benefits
- Medical/Pharmacy
- Dental
- Vision
- HSA
- FSA
- STD/LTD
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- Commuter Benefits
- company provided lunches
About the Company
- Marathon Asset Management is a leading global asset manager specializing in public and private credit with ~$24 billion in assets under management.
- Marathon is recognized as a distinguished leader with 27+ years of exceptional performance and partnership.
- Marathon’s integrated global credit platform is driven by our specialized, highly experienced, and disciplined teams across Private Credit: Direct Lending, Asset Based Lending and Opportunistic Credit and Public Credit: High Yield, Leveraged Loans & CLOs, Emerging Markets, and Structured Credit.
- Marathon’s mission is to build lasting partnerships with an unwavering commitment to delivering best-in-class performance, service, and reliability on behalf of our clients.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
