Commodities North American Power (Electricity) Modeler recruitment
The Company Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network delivers smart television to more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via SIRIUS XM Radio and 1worldspaceTM satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® financial news and information Web site provide news and insight to businesses and investors. The Role Our goal is create Bloomberg commodity functionality which gives the customer information which they can use to make money. We want users to want to come back to Bloomberg functions day after day. The ultimate function in one which users need because it provides something unavailable elsewhere and is fun and powerful to use. The functions should be intuitive to use with little if any training even if the function is complex. Functions should quickly address questions for which the answer changes daily or even more frequently. Project Design - Listening to and being aware of customer needs - Determining if and how Bloomberg can meet those needs and if satisfying an individual customer can be leveraged to satisfy many customers - Looking for and acting on feedback from others inside Bloomberg - Data acquisition - Product design with iterative feedback from beta testers - Training Bloomberg sales on the function and marketing the function - Anticipating, listening to and reacting to customer feedback and suggestions - Rolling out enhancements Industry Knowledge and Contacts The role requires the individual to know the North American power market well and to have deep contacts in the market to stay in touch with market developments and needs. The role requires communicating with users, learning/knowing what users need and then synthesizing this to design financial models which can be used across the market by many users. The role requires the person to know what will sell the Bloomberg product to the North American power market in addition to being a good listener with the ability to know what good financial markets design is and pick up on great customer ideas. The role will involve modeling in excel and other similar applications (such as Matlab) the supply and demand models (such as stack models, switching models, and load models) which exist on the premier trading desks of North American power market traders. The modeler should be prepared to keep ahead of any market developments so as to keep the models updated. The modeler will work for the product manager for power and gas in North America. The modeler will help guide the RD programming and design effort for the models. Qualifications: - Strong knowledge of commodities, especially North American power (electricity) markets - Familiarity with Bloomberg Terminal - Prior experience in project management - Existing contacts on North American power (electricity) trading desks - Sales experience and being a people person (strong communication skills) is an advantage - Ability to determine the difference between good and bad function design - Go getter with drive and initiative - Ability to follow through on goals independently while communicating progress to team members - Ability to join and contribute fresh ideas to an exciting market-leading commodity product push Bloomberg is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law.
