Director, Global Product Solutions Product Execution Lead

GPS Ltd.; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GPS Ltd. is seeking a Product Execution Lead to enhance product curation and commercialisation across the EMEA region. This role involves steady collaboration with multiple teams, managing client narratives, and executing strategic campaigns to optimize performance in the financial services market. Candidates should bring deep expertise in asset management and a proven track record in financial services.

Benefits

Retirement investment tools

Education reimbursement

Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Comprehensive health resources

Family support programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years financial services experience, preferably in mutual fund strategy or private markets.
• Strong capital market knowledge and analytical ability.
• Multi-lingual candidates preferred (German, French, or Italian).

Responsibilities

• Lead product curation and commercialisation across the EMEA region.
• Design product campaigns and track marketing effectiveness.
• Collaborate with various teams to align product strategies.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Relationship management

Quantitative skills

Education

BA/BS required

Tools

Morningstar

Bloomberg

Job description

Posted 4 Days Ago Be an Early Applicant London, Greater London, England London, Greater London, EnglandLead the Global Product Execution team, drive product curation, manage client narratives, and execute campaigns across EMEA investment markets.The summary above was generated by AI

About this role

Business Unit Overview:

The Global Product Solutions (GPS) team is responsible for product strategy, development, and range management activities for EMEA investment products. Formed in 2024 by combining several businesses, GPS drives the business strategy, innovation, and commercialization of our full investment platform, unlocking new growth opportunities across Active, iShares, and Private Markets. Our team manages BlackRock’s large and diverse range of funds, one of the most dynamic and diverse in the industry, with 1500+ funds domiciled out of 9 countries.

Job Purpose/ Background:

BlackRock’s Global Product Solutions EMEA is looking for a Product Execution Lead to drive the product curation and commercialisation agenda across the region, manage the cross-organisational efforts to position and prioritise our active, iShares and private market platforms and lead the product execution team to deliver client friendly narratives and data driven analyses.

The Product Execution Team sits within the GPS organization and is responsible for empowering our regional client businesses by driving product narratives and campaigns, amplifying product priorities, and identifying data driven insights across the EMEA region. The team works closely with sales leadership, our client segment leads and product segment groups across the organization to design and execute these plans.

Other key responsibilities include supporting our manager research sales function as they work to grow adoption rates of our focus products, co-develop new solutions with clients and scale and replicate ideas across multiple countries.

There will be a requirement to work in strong partnership with the broader GPS organization, product development asset class leads, investment teams, sales management, marketing, and other partner groups across the firm.

Key Responsibilities:

Establish distribution focus of our product range and partner with sales leadership to deliver on regional budget targets.

Design product campaigns and product distribution initiatives within EMEA client businesses across the BlackRock alpha, iShares and private market platforms.

Develop in-country campaign strategies with local sales leaders and relationship managers as well as direct client interaction to better position BLK’s broad capabilities and promote focus products across the range.

Drive alignment between partner groups including, product strategy, marketing, relationship managers, sales enablement and sales management functions.

Tracking and reporting on campaign plans, marketing calendars, sales activities and success metrics with an emphasis on campaign pre-planning, live tracking and post campaign summaries.

Aid in the roll-out of product training plans and continuing education efforts.

Lead on data and analytics projects that help identify client buying behaviours. Define, track and report key metrics and data across multiple dimensions to inform senior leadership of new opportunities.

Collaborate with EMEA product development asset class leads to evaluate industry trends, competitive dynamics and highlight commercial opportunities using industry level data.

Assist in driving the framework for product innovation, CIO alignment and co-development opportunities with clients across the region.

Experience/Qualifications:

BA/BS required

+10 years financial services experience, preferably with a focus on mutual fund strategy, sales, index and/or private markets

Deep understanding of the asset management industry with a preference for a product or client specialist background

Strong capital market knowledge

Preference for multi-lingual candidate (German, French or Italian as second language)

Robust quantitative skills along with demonstrated analytical ability. Working knowledge of investment databases, including Morningstar and Bloomberg would be a plus

Outstanding communication and relationship management skills, comfortable developing relationships across all levels internally

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

This mission would not be possible without our smartest investment – the one we make in our employees. It’s why we’re dedicated to creating an environment where our colleagues feel welcomed, valued and supported with networks, benefits and development opportunities to help them thrive.

For additional information on BlackRock, please visit @blackrock www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

BlackRock is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation and other protected characteristics at law.