FX Product Manager

FX Product Manager

Job Requisition Number: 37538
United States
New York - USA

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, order management and position keeping to a wide range of FX market participants.

The Bloomberg FX team is looking for a qualified Business Manager for its core FX product, to help lead our growth by providing innovative analytical and data-driven solutions to FX market participants in the areas of FX trade idea generation, price discovery, and valuation. This position carries a high level of visibility and responsibility. Applicants should possess a deep body of knowledge and experience in the FX markets, acquired from a bank, fund, or FX solutions vendor. The candidate should have a strong understanding of the financial markets, FX trading processes, the competitive landscape, and related technologies. We are looking for self-driven professional with proven product management experience, who can provide solutions to help manage our existing client business as well as expand on our current offerings.

Responsibilities:
-Helping the FX Business team develop Bloomberg's compelling/winning FX business strategy by bringing visionary ideas and deep market insight to the table.
-Clearly articulating that strategy in our business plan, in senior management presentations, in formal and informal communications across the firm, and with customers, to ensure all stakeholders are engaged.
-Working closely with customers, prospects, and Bloomberg’s sales force to understand customer needs and to identify and prioritize emerging marketplace trends.
-Managing the flow of product development requests, using excellent judgment to set clear and effective priorities for work to be done, and aggressively managing expectations with clients and Sales on timelines.
-Expressing Bloomberg's FX product strategy in well-thought-out, innovative, and intuitive product designs while working on a daily basis with RD to drive and oversee the development of our FX product set.
-Working closely with Marketing and Sales on rollout of new products and enhancements and implementing overall FX strategy to further our FX franchise.

Qualifications:
-Proven and significant experience in overseeing product development from a business level and working effectively with programmers to build and deliver a world-class product to customers.
-Deep understanding of the FX market, including the products used, electronic trading, market conventions, technology and trends.
-7+ years of FX experience - on sell-side, buy-side, or at a vendor - ideally in business/product management.
-Ability to rapidly assimilate detailed knowledge of, and develop strategy around, a wide range of solutions, on a global scale.
-Strong understanding of the companies and market players participating in the FX market
-Experience generating FX trade ideas and/or executing FX investment and hedging strategies.
-Understanding of a client’s workflow and the foreign exchange process; strategy management, compliance, financing, trade settlement, portfolio analysis, order management and electronic trading.
-Prior experience using the Bloomberg Professional is preferred.
-Strong network of senior contacts in the FX markets.
-Emerging markets expertise is a plus.
-Interest rates and derivatives knowledge a plus.
-Must be available for domestic and international 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 315,000 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, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

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August 7, 2013 • Tags: , • Posted in: Financial

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