Senior Product Specialist - Fixed Income
- Employer
- Ramsey Portia
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Salary
- Market rates - great salary, bonus and benefits.
- Closing date
- Jun 11, 2021
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- Job Function
- Other
- Industry Sector
- Finance - General
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Education
- Bachelors
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The role is responsible for supporting a global business model across intermediary and institutional distribution channels.
Duties and responsibilities
The role requires:
Duties and responsibilities
- Manage a team of London-based fixed income product specialists and provide proactive coaching, mentoring, and support of career development
- Craft and articulate product stories and messaging for a specified product set within the fixed income platform, serving as a subject matter expert on the products
- Create and maintain relevant platform and product narrative to differentiate products and set performance expectations including marketing language, RFP content, pitch books and web messaging
- Position products across institutional and intermediary distribution channels seeking opportunities to actively promote products and help drive sales
- Provide on-going product training around pertinent product features and benefits and performance updates for all distribution channels globally on assigned product set
- Proactively identify product marketing opportunities based on industry trends, current market environment and competitive advantages
- Identify competitive opportunities and provide detailed competitive analysis
- Build product sales ideas and drive content for marketing collateral
- Proactively communicate information to keep distribution team apprised and well-informed of pertinent product features and benefits and performance updates
- Collaborate with the Investment team, crafting business plans and identifying opportunities for product promotion throughout the year
- Provides sales support to all distribution channels globally with questions and client interactions
- Engage with clients across all channels via conference calls, on site visits, due diligence meetings, and travel for in person meetings for new business or ongoing client servicing
- Coordinate with Product Marketing to ensure product messaging flows through and is consistent across all collateral and platforms
- Collaborate with Product Specialist team to assure complementary positioning of all products
The role requires:
- Data interpretation from sources including: Bloomberg, Morningstar Direct, eVestment and other resources
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- CFA, or progress achievements toward CFA, preferred
- Strong computer skills including Powerpoint, Word, Excel and Adobe
- Fixed income product experience with a global asset manager or manager research experience
- Experience leading and mentoring direct reports
- Ability to craft stories and articulate product messaging
- Ability to assimilate complex and varied market data into a timely case for product investment
- Experience presenting to an internal audience, one on one and larger groups
- Ability to drive ideas from concept to completion through efficient project management and execution
- Solid verbal and written communication skills required
- Ability to set goals, manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously, work independently and drive results
- Strong knowledge of institutional, adviser-driven, platform placement and/or insurance distribution channels
- Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
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