Manager, Business Development, CME Direct recruitment
As the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (
- The widest range of global benchmark futures and options available across all major asset classes;
- The most advanced trading technology;
- Industry-leading clearing capabilities;
- A relentless customer focus, serving leading investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, corporations and individual traders; and,
- A great place to work.
With this strong foundation in place, and building on the history of CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX, we are looking to continue growing our business in both listed and over-the-counter markets. We hope you will consider joining our world-class team.
Manager, Business Development - CME Direct
Role:
- The Manager, Business Development - CME Direct; will focus on increasing access and distribution to CME Markets through the suite of products and services of CME Direct, CME Clearport, and ConfirmHub. This will be accomplished through developing and managing the relationships with prospects and customers through the sales process to onsite training and support for end users at brokerage and trading firms. The candidate will be proficient in all aspects of user interactions with CME user interfaces, which will initially include CME Direct and ConfirmHub software. These interfaces support trading in OTC bilateral markets, submission to CME Clearport, and trading in CME Globex. This role exists in order to ensure the highest level of user satisfaction when interfacing with CME user interfaces, to increase distribution and trading volumes for CME centrally cleared OTC markets and CME Globex markets.
Position:
- Proactively develop and manage the relationships with prospects and customers who are interested in CME Direct and ConfirmHub
- Provide on-site sales and training for CME Direct prospects and production users on the functionality of the software and the different features associated with each software module and user role.
- Increase trading volume with each entity (broker or trading firm)
- Act as a subject matter expert for the bilateral OTC markets accessible through CME Direct
- Act as a subject matter expert on the CME Globex markets accessible through CME Direct
- Collaborate with internal CME teams to ensure complete support of customer is given
- Collect summarize feedback from each user to enable future enhancements
- Provide timely call reports detailing user feedback and customer meetings
- Design CME Direct screen layouts for users
- Understand the ClearPort registration process, ClearPort RAV values and procedures and ClearPort Facilitation Desk procedures and operations
Qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Finance or related field; Minimum of 5 years experience in OTC Energy or Ag markets and/or Futures trading; Experience in electronic trading product account management preferred. Strong interpersonal and relationship skills are required. Individual must have the right temperament, attitude and persistence to interact with brokers and traders to gain adoption.