Market Specialist – Rates Derivatives, French Speaker, Specialist Sales, Financial Solutions
Location
London
Business Area
Sales and Client Service
Ref #
10039766
Description & Requirements
The Market Specialist team serves as the financial markets & workflow experts at Bloomberg. On any given day as a Market Specialist, you will be collaborating with senior decision makers at client accounts, helping to close new sale opportunities, and providing critical feedback to help shape the development of our product. By championing the Bloomberg Professional Service at market events and through printed material, you become the face of our company!
Comprised of former traders, portfolio managers, sales representatives, analysts, and more, our team of market specialists serve as the de facto market and asset class authorities. Our team not only heightens our user base’s experience and impacts sales revenue, it plays a vital role in improving the knowledge of our sales force and is a dedicated source of client feedback for our product development teams. The team is also able to highlight their market expertise through writing for a variety of publications.
We will trust you to:
- Apply your strong market experience, detailed knowledge of industry trends and demonstrated technical skills to assist in generating revenue for our terminal business and suite of Enterprise solutions
- Act in an advisory capacity to our clients concerning the challenges that they face, and how they can use our products and technology to address them
- Develop an in depth understanding of the competitor landscape and how this affects both internal and external customers
- Influence the direction of Bloomberg products through thought leadership, contribution on innovative ideas, and establishing relationships between Bloomberg's decisions makers and our clients
- Establish your own roadmap of initiatives that align with product, sales, and goals of the company. Maintain check-in points, and self-report successes and challenges on these strategies
- Participate actively in new projects that drive departmental and firm-wide initiatives and goals
- Seek out additional ways to make an impact, such as mentoring, involvement in training, running campaigns, and active involvement in product enhancement
You'll need to have:
- Extensive experience in interest rate swaps and options ideally gained from working in a trading or structuring role within an interest rate derivative business
- Strong knowledge of sell-side and buy-side workflows relating to interest rate derivative trading insights, idea generation, trade execution and risk management
- Experience using the terminal, or similar product, and applicable asset class functionality
- The business insight required to use your knowledge & experience to make good judgement and quick decisions to tangibly impact the commercial success of our business
- The ability to convey complex ideas and solutions in a simple and concise way to audiences both large and small
- A reciprocal and commercial mind-set, along with ability to operate within both departmental and company-wide initiatives, in a non-hierarchical structure without corporate titles
- A willingness to travel across EMEA as required to provide clients with a premier service
- Business fluency in French
We’d be interested in:
- Demonstrated sales ability, experience in managing business relationships with customers
- A good knowledge of inflation derivatives and experience working on an inflation derivative desk
- Experience in the product development process &/or implementing new technology in an institution
- Understanding of bank treasury workflows
- Experience working cross functionally with several departments in a large financial institution or experience in advising on risk and regulatory issues
- Awareness of Fixed Income Regulations and other Rates related risk and capital requirements
- Fluency in Italian or another European language
If this sounds like you:
Apply if you think we're a good match! We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: http://www.bloomberg.com