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Fortress Investment Group

Global investment manager managing diversified assets

Institutional Sales Analyst/Associate

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/22/2026
$125k - $150k+ Bonus + Deferred cash
Junior, Mid
Bachelor's
New York, NY, USA
In Person
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Management

About the job

Requirements
  • Requires 1–3 years of relevant experience in Investor Relations, Institutional Sales Support, Client Service, or Alternatives distribution on a manager, private credit, private equity, or real assets platform.
  • Requires a bachelor's degree; Finance, Economics, or a related field is preferred.
  • Requires FINRA licenses such as Series 7 and Series 63, or the ability to obtain them quickly.
  • Requires strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Requires the ability to manage multiple priorities with high attention to detail and strong follow-through.
  • Requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and polished client-facing judgment.
Responsibilities
  • Support senior Relationship Managers across the full investor lifecycle, including outreach, diligence, onboarding, and ongoing servicing.
  • Own meeting logistics and follow-up, including meeting briefs, notes, action items, and timely investor communications.
  • Maintain high-touch coverage of client and prospect requests, ensuring responsiveness and accuracy.
  • Work with senior Relationship Managers to plan client follow-up and ensure that deliverables—including due diligence questionnaires, requests for proposals, ad hoc data requests, and operational or legal follow-ups—are completed by the relevant internal teams by deadlines.
  • Build and maintain recurring reporting and tracking packages for Relationship Managers and Sales leadership.
  • Create executive-ready dashboards and trackers using Excel, PowerPoint, or customer relationship management systems to summarize pipeline, outreach activity, meeting outcomes, and next steps.
  • Use AI-enabled tools and automation to improve sales outreach, client engagement, and follow-up.
  • Track client leads by ensuring they are logged correctly, assigned, and progressed through the sales funnel.
  • Maintain accurate customer relationship management data, including contact updates, meeting notes, opportunity stages, and activity tracking.
  • Monitor follow-ups and deadlines, and proactively surface stale opportunities, open diligence items, and bottlenecks.
  • Identify opportunities to apply AI and workflow automation to streamline customer relationship management updates, diligence tracking, and internal sales support processes.
  • Provide day-to-day sales support to the Institutional team, including materials preparation, follow-ups, internal resource coordination, and campaign and roadshow execution support.
  • Assist with prospecting support where applicable, including list management, segmentation, and outreach coordination.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in Sales or Investor Relations at a leading alternatives platform is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with customer relationship management systems such as Salesforce is preferred.
  • Familiarity with alternative investments and institutional diligence processes, including due diligence questionnaires, requests for proposals, performance reporting, and fund materials, is strongly preferred.

About the company

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Fortress Investment Group

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Fortress Investment Group is a global investment manager that handles money for about 2,000 institutional clients and private investors. It invests across multiple areas, including credit and real estate, private equity, and permanent capital strategies. Its products are managed portfolios and funds across these asset classes, built by pooling client capital and investing it in varied opportunities to generate returns. The company differentiates itself through its broad, multi-asset platform and long-standing experience (founded in 1998), which supports a wide range of investment strategies and client needs. Fortress aims to grow assets under management and deliver long-term value to its investors by deploying capital across diverse markets and investment styles.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$1.3B

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1998

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What believers are saying

  • Fortress led a $550 million financing for Real REMAX Group on September 16, 2026.
  • Fortress closed a $900 million CRE CLO on August 28, 2026, expanding lending capacity.
  • Fortress signed a $1.5 billion Wayflyer forward-flow agreement in July 2026, scaling originations.

What critics are saying

  • USIF sued Fortress over TSX Broadway in February 2026, seeking $890 million.
  • Poundland and Poundstretcher overlap threatens store closures and jobs if Fortress acquires Poundland.
  • A TSX Broadway loss or CRE credit blowup would damage Fortress fundraising and lender trust.

What makes Fortress Investment Group unique

  • Fortress manages $55 billion across credit, real estate, private equity, and permanent capital.
  • Fortress priced its third European CLO in August 2026, proving repeat capital-market access.
  • Fortress hired Yuko Umino and Harry Bush in 2026 to push wealth distribution internationally.

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Benefits

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Retail Gazette
Oct 16th, 2026
Poundland appoints three directors as sale talks reach critical stage.

Poundland appoints three directors as sale talks reach critical stage. 16th October 2026 Poundland's owners have appointed three independent directors to the discount chain's board as rescue talks intensify, with administration still a possibility. Majority owner Gordon Brothers and minority shareholder Pepco Group have brought in Andrew Kirkpatrick, Stephen Welch and Dominic Young to help oversee the retailer's future, as a decision on its sale draws closer. Kirkpatrick previously advised Steinhoff International, a former owner of Poundland, while Welch is a restructuring specialist and chairman of fintech firm FNZ. Young previously served as a director of The Spectator's former parent company. Gordon Brothers is currently reported to be considering competing offers for the whole business and parts of its store estate, with a decision potentially coming as early as next week, according to Sky News. The three directors will form a majority on Poundland's board, amid speculation that their appointment could pave the way for an administration process. However, sources close to the sale have offered conflicting accounts of the move, with some suggesting the appointments followed management's preference for a rescue deal backed by Irish property investor Martin Property Group. The group is understood to have proposed a solvent takeover that would preserve Poundland's remaining stores and workforce, while injecting fresh funding into the business. Meanwhile, Poundstretcher owner Fortress Investment Group has reportedly revised its offer to acquire between 200 and 250 Poundland stores, alongside its brand and stock. Modella Capital and The Range owner CDS Superstores have also been linked to the sale process. A spokesperson for Gordon Brothers said discussions remained ongoing with several prospective buyers, including those interested in acquiring the entire business and others targeting viable parts of the chain. "The board will now objectively evaluate these options," the company said, adding that it would consider the interests of employees, suppliers and local communities. The developments come amid growing uncertainty over the future of Poundland, which employs around 12,000 people across close to 600 stores in the UK and Ireland. Gordon Brothers acquired the retailer from Pepco Group for £1 last year, but has since launched a fresh sale process despite recent signs of improving trading. Shopworkers' union Usdaw has warned that an administration process could put thousands of jobs at risk, as the retailer approaches the crucial Christmas trading period. Fill out this field Please enter a valid email address. 16th October 2026 Poundland's owners have appointed three independent directors to the discount chain's board as rescue talks intensify, with administration still a possibility. Majority owner Gordon Brothers and minority shareholder Pepco Group have brought in Andrew Kirkpatrick, Stephen Welch and Dominic Young to help oversee the retailer's future, as a decision on its sale draws closer. Kirkpatrick previously advised Steinhoff International, a former owner of Poundland, while Welch is a restructuring specialist and chairman of fintech firm FNZ. Young previously served as a director of The Spectator's former parent company. Gordon Brothers is currently reported to be considering competing offers for the whole business and parts of its store estate, with a decision potentially coming as early as next week, according to Sky News. The three directors will form a majority on Poundland's board, amid speculation that their appointment could pave the way for an administration process. However, sources close to the sale have offered conflicting accounts of the move, with some suggesting the appointments followed management's preference for a rescue deal backed by Irish property investor Martin Property Group. The group is understood to have proposed a solvent takeover that would preserve Poundland's remaining stores and workforce, while injecting fresh funding into the business. Meanwhile, Poundstretcher owner Fortress Investment Group has reportedly revised its offer to acquire between 200 and 250 Poundland stores, alongside its brand and stock. Modella Capital and The Range owner CDS Superstores have also been linked to the sale process. A spokesperson for Gordon Brothers said discussions remained ongoing with several prospective buyers, including those interested in acquiring the entire business and others targeting viable parts of the chain. "The board will now objectively evaluate these options," the company said, adding that it would consider the interests of employees, suppliers and local communities. The developments come amid growing uncertainty over the future of Poundland, which employs around 12,000 people across close to 600 stores in the UK and Ireland. Gordon Brothers acquired the retailer from Pepco Group for £1 last year, but has since launched a fresh sale process despite recent signs of improving trading. Shopworkers' union Usdaw has warned that an administration process could put thousands of jobs at risk, as the retailer approaches the crucial Christmas trading period.

StreetInsider
Oct 15th, 2026
The RealReal refinances 2029 notes with $150M Fortress term loan and $25M credit facility

The RealReal, the online marketplace for authenticated resale luxury goods, has secured a new $150 million senior secured term loan and a $25 million revolving credit facility. Funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group will provide the financing, which matures in October 2033. The company will use the term loan to redeem all of its 4.25%/8.75% senior secured notes due 2029 at par, expected on or about October 19, 2026. The new loan bears interest at SOFR plus 5.75%, against 13% on the old notes. The RealReal expects to cut annual interest expense by about $4 million in the first year. The deal extends its secured debt maturity by about four years. Chief financial officer Ajay Gopal said the company has lowered total debt by more than $80 million over two years.

Home of Direct Commerce
Oct 9th, 2026
Tesco eyes Majestic as Fortress sale heats up.

Tesco eyes Majestic as Fortress sale heats up. 9th October 2026 Tesco is reportedly among the bidders for Majestic Wine, as owner Fortress Investment Group runs a formal sale of Britain's largest specialist wine retailer. Sky News reported at the weekend that a number of suitors are in the running. Their identities have not emerged. The sale process began several weeks ago, around six months after Fortress appointed Rothschild & Co to explore its options. No price has been disclosed. Analysts quoted by Sky said Majestic's recent performance points to a deal worth hundreds of millions of pounds, with completion possible in early 2027. Neither Tesco, Majestic nor Fortress has confirmed the process. A deal would be a rare big move for Tesco, whose last acquisition on this scale was the £3.7bn purchase of wholesaler Booker in 2018. It would also push the grocer much deeper into specialist wine. Fortress bought Majestic for £95m in 2019. Since then it has added wine bar chain Vagabond, bought out of administration in 2024, and premium distributor Enotria&Coe in 2025. The business now has more than 200 stores across the UK and Jersey and over 1,000 staff, plus its Majestic Commercial on-trade arm. Trading has held up. Majestic served almost 11 per cent more customers over Christmas 2025 than a year earlier, and it has committed £4m to its store estate, including four new openings in 2026/27. CEO John Colley has said the group is "continuing to invest significantly" in its growth plan.

Coast FM
Oct 8th, 2026
Great Wines Direct owner challenges Tesco in Majestic auction.

Great Wines Direct owner challenges Tesco in Majestic auction. Thursday 8th October 2026 17:45 BST The owner of Great Wines Direct has waded into the auction of Majestic Wine Group, amid rival interest from Britain's biggest supermarket chain. Sky News has learnt that Komerz, a UK-based distribution platform, is among the bidders circling Majestic. Industry sources described Komerz as a serious contender to buy the business from current owner Fortress Investment Group. Komerz's involvement in the process pits it against Tesco, which Sky News revealed last weekend was among the interested parties vying for Majestic. Any deal is likely to cost a buyer several hundred million pounds. Komerz, which has previously said that it is undertaking a financing round valuing it at £500m, describes itself as an "AI-powered platform uniting commerce, marketing, data and distribution". Its acquisition of Great Wines Direct last year is understood to have given it confidence to make a competitive offer for Majestic. Founded in 2023, the company has also acquired businesses as diverse as haircare brand NOUGHTY and Glassbox, a brand and marketing consultancy. Komerz declined to comment on Thursday on its interest in Majestic Wine. A formal auction of the wine group kicked off several weeks ago, overseen by bankers at Rothschild. Majestic trades from a network of more than 200 stores across the UK and Jersey, employing more than 1,000 people. It was separated from Naked Wines, the online wine retailer, when Fortress acquired most of the business for £95m in 2019. Under Fortress's ownership, Majestic Wine has undergone an ambitious transformation programme since the acquisition, with new store openings, improvements to product ranges and an expansion of the brand's online presence all having been prioritised. The chain has opened more than 20 additional sites since 2019, with further openings planned alongside a strategy to grow its commercial business-to-business operation. Two years ago, Majestic swooped to acquire Vagabond Wines, a chain of bars, out of administration, for an undisclosed sum. It also operates the brand Enotria, which it bought last year. Through Enotria and its commercial business, Majestic Wine has become one of the largest wine and spirits suppliers in the UK, partnering with gastropubs, bars, restaurants, hotels and other hospitality venues.