Manager, Equity Markets Business Development - London Stock Exchange Group

London Stock Exchange Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial markets company is seeking a candidate for a role in the UK primary markets team focused on developing the Private Securities Market. The successful candidate will engage with investors, synthesize customer feedback, and contribute to product development, all while collaborating across multiple teams. Ideal for someone with strong interpersonal skills, presentation abilities, and a keen interest in financial markets.

Benefits

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Excellent presentation, verbal, organisational, research and written skills.
• A keen interest or understanding of the financial markets landscape.
• Experience of pitching to or advising clients.
• A pre-established network of investor contacts would be a bonus.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to grasp and distil complex subjects.
• Ability to navigate new opportunities in a high-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagement with investors who will participate in Private Securities Market.
• Run customer advisory boards and collect continuous customer feedback.
• Propose potential product developments based on customer interactions.
• Engage with multiple teams to ensure consistent messaging.
• Identify key regulatory provisions affecting customers.

Skills

Presentation skills

Verbal communication skills

Organizational skills

Research skills

Written skills

Interpersonal skills

Industry networking

Understanding of financial markets

Regulation compliance knowledge

Job description

Role Details

The role sits within the UK primary markets team, who are leading on the development and launch of Private Securities Market - a new trading venue that offers private companies access to periodic liquidity and investors with new investment and liquidity options. The candidate will be primarily responsible for helping co-ordinate the Private Securities Market business development effort focusing on investors and intermediaries who service those investors, in the team responsible for channelling the investor's customer voice into our development efforts. London Stock Exchange do not launch equity markets often - this is a unique opportunity to be involved at the start of a project with Government, Regulatory and Market backing!

The role will entail leading on client engagement with investors (both buyers and sellers) who will participate in Private Securities Market, including Institutions, Wealth Managers, PE and VC Funds, Family Offices, High Net Worth Investors and Corporate Venture Capital firms. By developing their own connections and collaborating with teams within LSEG to leverage existing relationships across the group, the applicant will become a subject matter authority in Primary Markets (PMK) who can lead or contribute to senior customer meetings with the core customer group, demoing Private Securities Market functionality and the investor user journey. To help ensure Private Securities Market develops in a way that is attractive to investors, the role will involve establishing and running customer advisory boards and mechanisms to collect continuous customer feedback, presenting findings within the wider organisation. A key aspect of the job will be proposing potential product developments, based on customer feedback and interactions and working with product development teams to shepherd these into production.

Private Securities Market is delivered by a number of different teams across the London Stock Exchange meaning day to day work will involve collaboration with multiple teams, including Primary Markets, Secondary markets, Marketing, Technology, Product, Regulation, Compliance, Legal amongst others. Working closely with Primary and Secondary market business development teams, a key aspect of the role will be to develop specific customer messaging for the venue, promoting consistent delivery across teams and contributing to the development of content and outreach strategies, including promoting the venue to an international target market. The candidate will be expected to collate and synthesize customer feedback and market developments to the wider team, as well as Identifying and working with subject matter experts on key regulatory provisions and operational considerations affecting customers, with a view to developing the private securities market as a product but also our position on policy and thought leadership activities we engage in.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be able to clearly evidence some, but not necessarily all, of the skills / competencies below.

• Excellent presentation, verbal, organisational, research and written skills.
• A keen interest or understanding of the financial markets landscape within which LSEG operates.
• Experience of pitching to / advising clients
• A pre-established network of investor contacts would be a bonus.
• Experience of having successfully built up a network of contacts in a given industry / sector.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build positive working relationships externally and internally
• Ability to grasp and distil complex subject matters, especially areas of regulation and compliance, to understand the impact on customers and product behaviour
• Ability to confidently navigate and / or propose suggested ways forwards when operating with partial information or with new types of opportunities, thriving in a high-paced environment

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership , Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence . Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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