Job Description

Overview

A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.

We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.

Job Description

Investment Strategy Analyst

Investment Strategy Team

Full-Time

Boston, MA

The Opportunity

As a member of the Investment Strategy team, you will work in a fast-paced, analytical, and highly collaborative environment to develop research-driven content and insights that inform portfolio decisions and clearly communicate MassMutual’s investment strategy to internal and external stakeholders. You will help connect market and macro views, portfolio positioning, and asset-allocation considerations into a cohesive narrative that supports disciplined decision-making.

The Team

The Investment Strategy Team is responsible for critical functions supporting management of MassMutual’s and MassMutual Ascend’s GIAs, sustainability, and communication of MassMutual’s macro views and investment philosophy to key stakeholders. The team is tasked with quantitative analysis, asset allocation, asset liability management, communication and fundamental research aimed at maximizing returns for our policyholders. The team is collaborative, inclusive, and plays off of each other’s strengths to solve complex problems. Working on this team, you will have the opportunity to interact with various internal and stakeholders including MassMutual’s Finance and Enterprise Risk Areas and Barings, MassMutual’s wholly-owned asset manager. Team members are intellectually curious, have a passion for markets, and a drive to succeed.

The Impact:

• Research Content & Presentation Support – Draft, edit, and maintain recurring and ad hoc materials (e.g., market notes, strategy updates, executive summaries, presentations, and briefing materials). Compile inputs and analysis into clear, concise, and visually effective outputs tailored to different audiences.
• Portfolio Analytics & Reporting – Support monitoring of portfolio positioning, investment activity, performance, and key risk/return metrics across asset classes (with an emphasis on fixed income and private assets). Produce routine reporting and ad hoc analyses (tables, charts, and commentary) to enable portfolio and asset-allocation discussions.
• Market & Macro Monitoring – Track key market and macroeconomic indicators, summarize developments, and highlight potential portfolio implications. Support scenario and sensitivity analyses by combining research, quantitative work, and stakeholder inputs.
• Stakeholder & Manager Coordination – Gather, organize, and quality-check portfolio, market, and manager information from internal and external partners (including asset managers). Convert inputs into decision-ready summaries, dashboards, and presentation materials that align to MassMutual’s objectives, constraints, and insurance-account context.
• Process, Data & Quality Improvement – Enhance repeatable reporting processes, templates, and data workflows to improve accuracy, timeliness, and consistency. Support special projects by partnering across Finance, Risk, and Investments to deliver well-documented analysis and polished communications.

The Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 1+ years of professional experience with investments including experience in a research or investment management role

The Ideal Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Finance or MBA
• CFA designation (or proven progress towards completion)
• Possessing, or the ability to develop, a working knowledge of financial modelling
• Experience in fixed income or private assets
• Experience with Bloomberg and/or Bloomberg API
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to translate complex investment topics into clear, stakeholder-ready content; strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Ability to manipulate and analyze large data sets using Excel and related tools; comfort creating charts/visuals to support presentation-ready materials

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

• Regular meetings with the Investment Strategy Team
• Focused one-on-one meetings with your manager
• Networking opportunities including access to Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, African American, women, LGBTQIA+, veteran and disability-focused Business Resource Groups
• Access to learning content on Degreed and other informational platforms
• Your ethics and integrity will be valued by a company with a strong and stable ethical business with industry leading pay and benefits

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MassMutual is an equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome all persons to apply.

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MassMutual will accept applications on an ongoing basis until such time as a candidate has been offered employment. The job description includes the main duties of this position, which may evolve over time. You may be required to perform other duties not listed.

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Salary Range: $92,800-$121,800

Award-Winning Culture

MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.

We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.

At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.

How We Work

MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.

Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)

There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.

Explore some of our offerings below.

Paid Time Off

• In addition to generous vacation time, paid holidays, and flexible holidays, MassMutual offers 'take care' time to care for yourself or someone you love—whether for physical illness or mental health.

Health & Well-Being

In addition to top-line medical and dental coverage, personalized mental health solutions, on-site and virtual health coaching, and much more, MassMutual reimburses employees up to $1,250 per year for eligible expenses supporting mental, physical, and financial well-being.

Financial Well-Being

In addition to competitive salaries and bonuses, educational assistance programs, and much more, MassMutual offers up to a 10% total 401(k) benefit, consisting of a 5% company match and a 5% annual contribution.

Taking Care

MassMutual offers generous maternity and parental leaves, as well as bereavement leave to mourn the loss of a loved one (and the employee defines 'loved one'). In addition, we offer up to 320 hours of caregiver leave to help employees support loved ones in times of need.

Giving Back

MassMutual offers three paid days for employees to volunteer with eligible nonprofits of their choice, and the MassMutual Foundation matches employee donation dollars to eligible nonprofit organizations up to $5,000 annually.

Commuter Benefits

MassMutual offers a Qualified Commuter Program through which eligible employees can pay qualified workplace commuting expenses with before-tax dollars, as well as a commuter wallet option for employees based at Boston and NYC campuses.

Job Tags

Full time, Remote work, Flexible hours, 3 days per week

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