DescriptionPensions & Investments is the leading media and information company serving institutional investors and asset managers worldwide. We are expanding our research and data capabilities to match the ambitions of our editorial strategy - and this role is at the center of that effort.The Senior Research Analyst, Institutional Intelligence will work alongside our existing research team to strengthen and expand P&I's proprietary databases, including our flagship institutional mandate coverage and our annual survey program. While data management is required, this is primarily an intelligence and product role.Today, capturing institutional investment mandates requires monitoring a fragmented landscape of primary sources - pension board meeting recordings, public filings, RFP postings, and regulatory disclosures. You will use AI tools to build and refine workflows that make this process faster, more comprehensive, and more analytically rigorous, while also developing new data products and insight outputs that the team has not had the capacity to build until now.You will sit at the intersection of financial research, editorial judgment, and data technology. Reporting to the Director of Research & Analytics, you will collaborate directly with P&I's editorial leadership and our corporate technology team to expand a research function that is growing in strategic importance across the organization.This is a role for someone who has spent time in the institutional investment world, understands how allocators and managers think, and wants to apply that knowledge in a new way.What You Will Do:New Data Products & Insight ProductionThis is the growth function that this role is specifically designed to help build. Working with the Director of Research & Analytics and the editorial team, you will help develop new intelligence outputs - monthly mandate trend summaries, data-driven story leads, analytical briefs - that connect the dots across P&I's proprietary data. The goal is not just to maintain existing databases but to build new products from them: summaries, reports, and data feeds that serve subscribers, sponsors, and the newsroom in ways that do not yet exist.Institutional Mandate Intelligence (Searches & Hires)You will work with our research team to expand P&I's institutional mandate database - one of the most widely used proprietary data assets in institutional financial media. Mandates are not job listings. They are investment decisions: a pension fund seeking an ESG manager, an endowment restructuring its private equity allocation, a sovereign wealth fund issuing an RFP for a new fixed income mandate. These signals tell asset managers where capital is moving before anyone else knows.The challenge - and the opportunity - is that these signals come from dozens of disparate sources: board meeting minutes and audio recordings, public filings, RFP portals, and regulatory disclosures. You will work with our technology team to build and refine AI-assisted workflows that monitor these sources systematically, flag relevant mandates, and ensure verified data enters the database with the analytical judgment that automated tools alone cannot provide. You will also identify patterns across the data - trend signals that become the basis for new intelligence products and editorial story leads.Survey Program SupportYou will support P&I's annual survey program - approximately a dozen surveys per year covering the top money managers, asset owners, and investment consultants in the industry. This includes building and distributing surveys, managing participant relationships, reviewing submissions for accuracy and completeness, and producing clean, publication-ready datasets. You will surface trends within the data proactively and bring them to the editorial and commercial teams before they ask.What We Are Looking For:Required* 5+ years of experience in financial research, data analysis, or a related role atan institution
