Product Manager, Commodities - Enterprise Data License Content

London

Posted Apr 24, 2024 - Requisition No. 124809

We are Bloomberg Enterprise Data - fast paced, innovative and expanding! We partner closely with our clients, taking time to understand their unique businesses, individual data, and financial technology (FinTech) needs. Our endless selection of datasets, covering all asset types, with multiple delivery technologies and flexible scheduling enables our clients to get the exact data they need, when they need it, in the format they prefer. Our award-winning data helps power the world’s financial applications and systems in the capital markets.

Our commodities data solutions complement our award-winning data offerings spanning reference, pricing, regulatory, risk and sustainable data products in bringing together a complete product suite that creates a compelling value proposition to customers across buyside asset managers, asset owners and hedge funds, SellSide banks as well as service providers. This business is core to our growth strategy across Enterprise Data, and our ambition is to continue servicing the most complex demands and evolving challenges of our clients so that they can keep innovating and delivering value to their clients.

The team is responsible for identifying, creating, and designing data solutions that leverage Bloomberg's proprietary analytics and industry-leading commodities data. This requires an in-depth understanding of commodities data across the various asset classes including Energy, Metals, Agriculture and Carbon. It requires a good understanding of the intricacies of the data sourcing in commodities as well as a deep understanding of data feeds/API’S and the corresponding target client segments and use-cases.

Key to this is understanding the multi-dimensional challenges our clients are trying to solve and making sure that we remain their trusted partner as they work with us to build solutions driven by best-in-class data.

We are seeking a senior individual to join the Enterprise Commodities Data team as a Product Manager. This position will report to the Global Head of Enterprise Data License Content.

What is the role?

They will be responsible for building a strategic product roadmap and measurement of progress towards the long-term vision for Commodities Enterprise Data offering. They will be an integral part of our collaborative leadership team of seasoned product managers, working with key stakeholders across Enterprise Data entire range of products and solutions. In this role we expect they have an aptitude for sound judgment, excellent execution, coordination, collaboration, communication, and implementation. They must work closely with Engineering, Product, Data, Sales, and all relevant support teams. They will be expected to ensure a relentless drive to drive the Data business growth.

We will trust you to:

• Product Strategy: Build and execute a strategic product roadmap for Commodities Enterprise Data, ensuring alignment with Bloomberg’s overall growth strategy. Lead a collaborative effort across teams to innovate and expand our product offerings, leveraging your extensive experience in Commodities.

• Client-Centric Solution Design: Utilize your deep knowledge of the commodities to identify client needs and create data solutions that provide a competitive edge. Engage directly with clients to understand their challenges and collaborate on developing scalable data solutions.

• Agile Product Management: Ensure we have incremental deliveries and a phased product roadmap with clearly outlined business outcomes. Your leadership in product strategy, combined with your experience in large-scale project management and agile development, will be crucial in driving continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

• Ability to develop a deep understanding of our enterprise data offering when it comes to our content as well as the accessibility, usability, quality, tools, and services available to clients that allow them to deepen their interaction and usage of our content.

• Data Analytics and Technical Proficiency: With a solid background in data analysis, forecasting, and a basic proficiency in programming languages such as Python, you will lead the development of data-driven strategies to meet business objectives and enhance product offerings.

You will need to have:

• Extensive experience in product management or equivalent, particularly in commodities data.

• Strong understanding of the various commodities sub-asset classes (Energy, Metals, Agriculture and Carbon) and expertise in at least 2 of them.

• Deep knowledge of client cohorts and target audience for commodities data products.

• Demonstrated expertise in commodities and a comprehensive understanding of the trading process and data needs across each deal stage.

• Demonstrated commercial acumen with a proven track record in growing a data business with a focus on data feeds and APIs

• Strong leadership skills with experience in leading high-performing teams.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

We’d love to see:

• A degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, business management, or another related field is valued

• Strong collaboration skills; a self-motivator who demonstrates that they can be a consensus builder.

*Please note we use years of experience as a guide, but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we're a good match! We'll get in touch with you to let you know what the next steps are.

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