Location: Milan, Italy
Employment Type: Full‑time (On‑site)
Seniority: Managing Director
Reports to: Head of Institutional Sales
✔ Focus: High Yield · Stressed/Distressed · Special Situations · EM · Hybrids & Sub-Fins
About Imperial Capital
Imperial Capital Group (Los Angeles, New York, London, Milan) provides institutional sales & trading, investment banking, capital markets, and restructuring advisory, specializing in complex and illiquid credit across the capital structure.
Why we’re hiring
We’re expanding senior sell-side coverage across priority regions to originate and execute in High Yield, stressed/distressed, EM and special situations —on a riskless-principal basis. This is not IG/rates and not a sales-trader role.
Product scope: stressed/distressed bonds & loans;
EM/LATAM opportunities;
AT1/CoCos, corporate hybrids ;
senior & subordinated financials ;
covered, core& peripheral SSA ;
illiquids and selected ABS. Illustrative cases include legacy CS AT1 and select EM sovereign/corporate workouts (e.G., Venezuela/PDVSA, Argentina ) where permitted by applicable laws, sanctions, and internal policies.
We’re looking for seasoned producers who turn differentiated ideas into revenue and deepen Tier-1 buy-side relationships—executing strictly within our regulatory permissions and compliance standards.
Open roles (select your primary region)
We are hiring 3 Senior Institutional Credit Sales (MD, individual contributor) roles. Priority markets:
- Italy — Senior Sales covering Italy and Italian-speaking clients.
- France / Francophone — Senior Sales covering France and other Francophone markets (e.G. Luxembourg)
- Germany / German-speaking — Senior Sales covering Germany and other German-speaking markets (e.G. Austria).
Secondary expansion (optional add-on coverage): BENELUX and/or Nordics;
CEE considered.
Location: All positions are based in Milan (hybrid). English language at professional level (C1+) is a must have while Italian language, even if not required for roles not covering Italian clients, is advantageous for on-site collaboration and considered a plus.
What you’ll do ✔
- Own senior client coverage in your region;
maintain and expand a network of real-money, hedge funds, private banks, and family offices.
- Originate & close across HY, stressed/distressed bonds & loans, post-reorg situations;
deploy hybrids & sub-Fins when accretive. Not IG/rates.
- Run your book : craft ideas with Trading & Research, set pricing, coordinate execution, and ensure clean, timely settlement—riskless-principal (this is not a sales-trader role).
- Collaborate globally with colleagues in the UK/US to maximize cross-border idea flow and capital velocity.
The platform you’ll leverage