FX Electronic Trading Market Specialist recruitment

The Role
Bloomberg FX extends the offerings of the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service by providing a full suite of Foreign Exchange functionality including global FX news, data, analytics, electronic trading and position keeping. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced FX professional to join our expanding Market Specialist Group in San Francisco with a focus on FX Electronic Trading.
Applicants should possess a deep body of knowledge and experience in the FX Markets at either a bank or an electronic trading vendor. The candidate should have a strong understanding of the financial markets, the trading process, including STP, and OMS connectivity.
We are looking for self-driven sales professionals with proven experience, who can provide solutions to help manage our existing client business as well as sell to new clients. Qualified candidates will have a consultative selling approach that is adaptable to all client types and will enjoy working within a mixture of sales, account management and support professionals.

Responsibilities will include:
- Assisting the Sales force in furthering our FX E-trading franchise
- Managing and growing our client base by creating a pipeline of clients through prospecting, relationship management, referrals, cross-selling and attending conferences
- Directly impacting sales through on-site meetings with clients and prospects where you present unique Bloomberg solutions
- Influencing the direction of our product by providing feedback to Bloomberg's business managers on user demand, market practices and product enhancements

Qualifications:
- Minimum seven years of experience in the FX Market with a strong understanding of spots, forwards, futures, swaps and options
- Proven experience in high-level, complex sales with an FX electronic trading, FX sales or software sales background
- Ability to rapidly assimilate detailed knowledge of, and develop sales tactics for, a wide range of electronic trading solutions
- Understanding of a client's workflow and the foreign exchange process; strategy management, compliance, financing, trade settlement, portfolio analysis, order management and electronic trading
- Ability to identify new prospects and to build and maintain solid client relationships
- Strong understanding of the companies participating in the FX market
- Exemplary presentation, training and communication skills
- Prior experience using the Bloomberg Professional is strongly preferred
- Must be available for domestic travel

The Company
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.

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.