Principal, Portfolio Management

About this role

Position Overview Apollo is seeking a Portfolio Management Principal to support the management of a diversified portfolio of performing credit investments, with a primary focus on direct lending strategies. The role will oversee and conduct portfolio construction, monitoring, reporting, and performance analysis across private and syndicated credit investments.

This is a highly analytical, detail-oriented role that provides broad exposure to portfolio management, credit risk, and investor-facing processes within a growing private credit platform.

Primary Responsibilities • Own the design, production, and governance of customized client and investor reporting, setting standards for quality, consistency, and narrative insight across internal and external audiences; serve as a senior point of escalation for complex client requests. • Lead advanced portfolio analytics and risk assessment, partnering with portfolio managers to shape allocation strategy, rebalancing decisions, and forward-looking scenario analysis across market cycles. • Act as a core contributor to investment committee processes, synthesizing portfolio-level insights, credit views, and risk considerations; document, challenge, and track investment decisions to ensure alignment with strategy and accountability. • Develop and oversee investment screening frameworks to identify, prioritize, and evaluate opportunities, directly influencing trade construction and execution in collaboration with portfolio managers and traders. • Provide senior-level partnership to sector analysts on underwriting, amendments, and restructurings, exercising independent judgment and coordinating with trading teams to drive efficient execution and clear communication with bank counterparts. • Maintain holistic oversight of existing and prospective investment activity across Global Corporate Credit, proactively identifying portfolio concentrations, emerging risks, and opportunities to optimize performance. • Serve as a strategic liaison for the Global Corporate Credit team, leading coordination on credit-platform initiatives and firm-wide projects and representing portfolio management perspectives with senior stakeholders.

• Drive complex, cross-functional initiatives and special projects, operating with minimal oversight and mentoring junior team members to elevate analytical rigor and execution standards

Qualifications & Experience • 8-12 years of investment banking, capital markets, research, sales and trading, or buy-side experience (areas include Leveraged Finance, Financial Sponsors, Restructuring or M&A are a plus) • Bachelor’s degree with strong academic record. • Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and rigorous work environment; demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands and meet deadlines • Initiative and ownership of responsibilities – must show a proactive, positive attitude • Strong interest in Corporate Credit • High proficiencies in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Bloomberg.  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA/MS is a plus

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

Our Benefits Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who: Outperform expectations Challenge Convention Champion Opportunity Lead responsibly Drive collaboration

About Apollo Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of September 30th, 2025, Apollo had approximately $840 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com .

Our Purpose & Core Values Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be: The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals. The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses. A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

Pay Range $300,000 Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates) is committed to championing opportunity.

The firm and its affiliates comply with applicable discrimination and equal opportunities legislation in all of its jurisdictions and do not discriminate in employment or recruitment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual

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