Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, news and insight, and we use innovative technology to deliver trusted data and bring transparency to the financial markets. Our customers around the globe rely on us for the information and tools they need to make critical investment decisions and remain connected across all sides of the financial community. And, to ensure the best experience for our 20,000+ employees across 176 offices globally, we provide the spaces and systems that allow our teams to work together with agility, productivity and collaboration, no matter where they are.

The Bloomberg Financial Solutions department of 5,000+ employees is at the forefront of ensuring success for our customers and employees alike. Our team comprises several key pillars: sales, service, operations, culture and brand. As a department, we are united by a common goal: We create meaningful relationships with clients by understanding their needs and delivering exceptional end-to-end support from sales and implementation, through their ongoing relationship with Bloomberg.

Bloomberg offers a diverse range of fixed income, commodity, currency, equity and multi-asset index solutions. With extensive asset coverage, a strong history of innovation, and objective and transparent rules, Bloomberg indices are widely used as a source for portfolio construction and performance comparison. We offer an array of services to clients interested in custom index development, investable index products designed to offer access to systematic strategies, index administration and calculation agent services. Bloomberg indices are driven by the same trusted reference data, pricing and analytical calculations that are leveraged throughout the investment process.

What’s the role?
We are seeking an Index Sales Specialist who is familiar with the structured product and equity derivatives ecosystem and the design and attributes of index solutions offered by sell-side firms. As an Index Sales Specialist you will guide the firm’s design, adoption and education of Bloomberg Index products for use within the Sell-side products and workflows. 

You will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key decision makers and influencers across regional and global sell-side organizations to provide them with consultative, commercially focused index solutions.

You will be involved in all aspects of account management, including senior level relationship management and in-depth discussions regarding Bloomberg index methodologies, new product development and positioning relevant solutions to clients.

We’ll trust you to:Build senior level relationships with many of the top institutions in the worldConduct in-depth discussions regarding Bloomberg index methodology and new product requirementsIncrease client awareness, usage and adoption of our Bloomberg IndicesTake a lead role in conducting internal and external training sessions and sales pitchesWork with clients throughout the sales process including commercial terms, contract execution and driving distribution supportCollaborate extensively with different internal teams to cross-sell our suite of solutionsProvide detailed product feedback from clients to internal business managers in an effort to continually improve our products and expand our offering and capabilitiesTravel regularly to meet with clients and prospects
You’ll need to have:Experience and understanding of the index landscape, index solution design and index data usage within sell side firms and the structure product issuance landscapeExperience working in, or selling index products to Sell-side firms or alternatively, experience in structuring / designing quantitative index solutions (QIS) or Structured Retail Products Experience analyzing prospects and competitors to position unique, relevant index solutionsHigh level understanding of derivative usage and payouts within indices as well as their usage to gain exposure to indicesAn astute commercial mind-set, working to exceed sales metricsDemonstrable ability to identify new prospects and to build / maintain meaningful client relationshipsExcellent client communication skills in conversational speech, writing, and public speakingAptitude to excel in a dynamic, rapidly growing environmentAbility to creatively market our product to a vast demographic of potential clientsA self-starter and dedicated collaborator with strong multi-tasking skillsWorking proficiency in additional European languages would be a plus
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