Product Manager / Strategist
Fitch Ratings
Dual-headquartered in New York and London, Fitch Ratings is a global rating agency dedicated to providing value beyond the rating through independent and prospective credit opinions, research, and data. Offering a world of knowledge and experience behind every opinion, we transform information to deliver meaning and utility to investors, issuers, and other market participants. Fitch Ratings' global expertise draws on local market knowledge and spans the fixed-income universe. The additional context, perspective and insights we provide help investors make important credit judgments with confidence.
Fitch Solutions provides a range of industry-leading products and services to the global financial community. In addition to offering proprietary market-based content, we distribute the ratings, research, and financial data of Fitch Ratings through a variety of flexible platforms. With innovation and experience behind every solution we bring to market, our offerings are designed to meet the diverse needs of the fixed-income markets.
Fitch Ratings and Fitch Solutions, along with Fitch 7 city Learning, are part of the Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services. Fitch Group is a jointly owned subsidiary of Paris-based Fimalac, S.A. and New York-based Hearst Corporation.
Fitch complies with all laws governing employment in each jurisdiction in which it operates, and provides equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. All applications will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, and other status protected by applicable laws.
Fitch Solutions' Global Product is responsible for directing the commercial activities surrounding referential fixed income research and information; pricing and risk measurement data, modeled and analytic tools and analytical tools used by financial professionals worldwide in their risk management and investment decision making processes.
Essential Functions:
The Product Owner is globally responsible for their designated product – content sets, platform and/or tool.
Products include:
· Platforms: Fitch Research; Risk Connect, the Integrated data feed as well as WebServices and RXML feeds, low latency research feeds and industry-leading data delivery solutions
· Content Sets: Ratings, Research fundamental financial data sets, market based credit indicators and model derived credit indicators, as well as
· Tools relative performance analytical applications, and risk measurement analytics.
Product Owner ( Director / Associate Director)
Fitch Solutions is seeking a Product Owner to execute the commercial and product development strategy globally for a designated product ( data or referential research information content set, distribution platform or tool).
The Product Owner is the product champion – they own the product through the products life cycle from ideation, market validation, product creation and development, marketing and sales training through to maturity and enhancement. They are the advocate for end users and customers - the voice of the customer and the voice of the market – and brings an understanding of the market and our client's workflow to the product development process They work with IT to develop the product concept and with Marketing and Sales to commercialize and bring the product to market.
Responsibilities Include:
- Lead the global product strategy and development priorities for the Fitch Solutions product
- Surface and conceptualize revenue generation opportunities, build products from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on industry experience and contact with customers and prospects
- Provide commercial leadership for the designated products globally
- Develop and communicate product strategy, plans and roadmaps, including articulating our distinctive competence and the product's unique advantage.
- Specify and validate market requirements for current and future products by undertaking qualitative and quantitative research with existing customers and potential prospects.
- Estimate the consumer demand for the product they manage, identify potential customers, stay informed of any competing products on the market, and develop commercial business cases and packaging and pricing strategies.
- Work with IT to bring a product idea to fruition effectively and efficiently utilizing the services of the Fitch Ratings Project Management Office and IT development team
- Work proactively with sales teams to organize targeted sales campaigns, coordinate pre-sale efforts and achieve revenue goals.
- Cultivate strategic relationships with clients and third-party partners.
- Monitor relevant market changes including competitive activities, customer needs and regulatory and reporting changes. Adjust product activities to respond appropriately to ensure product continues to meet its objectives.
- Lead product development
- Work with Client services to provide leading product support functions in the execution of marketing plans, and pre-and post-sale product support
- Lead the global information technology, analytical and sales groups in the interpretation of new product features and the translation into product design specifications.
- Develop financial plans necessary to obtain investment in product development; track performance against forecasted objectives and developing corrective strategies when objectives are not being met.
The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:
· 7+ years of experience and comfort with financial market data and/or
credit analytics and their use in the investment research and analysis
process
· Experience and comfort with financial market data and referential research with direct experience delivering financial content products to end users and a deep understanding of global and regional regulatory standards and financial practices, credit investor informational needs, and ma
rket data best practices.
· Experience and comfort with credit analytics consists of familiarity with best practices of corporate default and ratings replication methodologies and the application of these models for risk or investment management purposes.
· 5+ years of experience in product development and/or commercial management - preferably with information products or tools, referential research, online and web based platforms
· Have a strong subject matter expertise in the designated content set (eg: fundamental financial data or market based derived indicators) or platforms (web based and mobile applications as well as web services or APIs) and/or what if stress/scenario tools/models)
· Have working experience of completing large technology / product projects on time and on budget and within client expectations
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