Automation Workflow & Market Specialist

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Job description

The Workflow & Market Specialist team within Enterprise Sales serves as the financial markets & workflow experts at Bloomberg. On any given day as a Market Specialist, you will be consulting 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, product managers, business managers, 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.

Automation and digital transformation sits at the centre of many of our clients technology decisions. Our clients leverage varying Bloomberg products such as intelligent data feeds, our machine learning models and automated API's which help them on their journey towards Automation. Continuing to help our clients with this is key to our success for the future and our clients lean on our expertise and market knowledge that this role will have. This role will be at the forefront of the future of the financial markets with the cutting edge technology Bloomberg is building.

We will trust you to:

• Utilize 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 around the challenges that they face, and how then can or could use our products and technology to solve them
• Develop an in depth understanding of the competitor landscape and how this affects both internal and external stakeholders
• Influence the direction of Bloomberg product 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 corporate goals. 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:

• Deep understanding of Financial Markets workflows that provide automation to pre-trade, at-trade and post-trade processes
• Experience and knowledge of Machine Learning Technology, API and Fix Connectivity, Inter and Intra Firm Collaboration Workflows
• Relentless ability to collaborate with multiple departments to bring internal stakeholders together to work towards a unified goal
• Experience working on automation / digitisation of trading activities in a Large Sell Side or a Large Buyside
• Passion for the digital transformation of the financial markets and everything that this entails
• Good understanding of Cross Asset voice trading workflows (For example : Fixed Income Cash, Repo, Equity Derivatives, Rates...)
• Capacity to handle a technical conversation with Technology Leaders and also a workflow conversation with Heads of Sales/Trading
• The business insight required to use your knowledge & experience to make good judgement and quick decisions so as 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 Europe as required in order to provide clients with a premier service
• Outstanding presentation, training and communication skills in English

We'd love to see:

• History of managing complex automation solutions in large financial institutions
• History of bringing new digital products to market at large scale
• An entrepreneurial & commercial mind set with the ability to identify and develop opportunities for other groups within the company and to build strong external networks
• Demonstrated sales ability, experience in managing business relationships with customers

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:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.