Product Manager - Sell-Side EMS Price Taking

Avature; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Product Manager for their Sell-Side EMS Price Taking products. This role involves driving design and innovation, collaborating with engineering teams, and ensuring timely project delivery. You will leverage your extensive experience in product management and fixed income electronic trading to define product vision and specifications. Join a dynamic team that values collaboration and innovation, and make a significant impact in the financial technology landscape. If you are a motivated individual with strong analytical and communication skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 10 years’ experience in product management or related field.
• Expert knowledge of Sell-Side EMS products and systems.

Responsibilities

• Present vision and roadmap to senior management.
• Document clear functional specifications for product development.

Skills

Product Management

Fixed Income Electronic Trading

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Product Management, Finance, or STEM

Tools

Jira

Job description

Product Manager - Sell-Side EMS Price Taking

Location: London

Business Area: Product

Ref #: 10042627

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real-time financial information to more than 310,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively.

Bloomberg Enterprise Products’ Sell-Side Solutions business is a global leader in fixed income trading technology. We provide data-rich, scalable solutions that help our Sell-Side clients navigate complexity and drive success. Seamlessly integrated with Bloomberg Terminal, Data, and Risk Solutions, our Enterprise Sell-Side Products support every stage of the trading life cycle. This includes pre-trade analytics, real-time execution, post-trade activities, and risk management solutions that enable sales, trading, treasury, operations, and compliance teams to work more effectively together.

What’s the Role?

Bloomberg Sell-Side EMS is looking for a Product Manager to drive the design and innovation of our next generation Price Taking products. Price taking products provide traders with tools to trade in the market to take position, hedge positions, and hedge trades from relevant trading tools. The Sell-Side EMS product spans the full range of relevant tools for Fixed Income traders such as market connectivity, price engine, quoting engine, model engine, RFQ ticket, auto-quoting, STP, hedging tools, smart order router, and virtual market trading. Product managers within the price taking area will need to apply extensive experience and working knowledge of asset types (Bonds, Repo, Futures, Derivatives) and electronic trading to define product vision and detailed specifications and collaborate with Engineering teams to test and roll out software.

We'll Trust you to:

1. Present the vision, value proposition, roadmap and development progress to senior business management
2. Work collaboratively with other Product Managers to integrate EMS services across all relevant workflows
3. Document clear functional specifications (including SLAs) for each phase of product development
4. Ensure projects are delivered on time, to specification, and that all development milestones are met

You’ll Need to Have:

1. 10 years’ experience in product management or related field
2. Expert knowledge of Sell-Side EMS products and systems
3. Demonstrated acumen in Fixed Income electronic trading automation
4. Experience managing complex projects and teams
5. Hands-on experience with Fixed Income traders
6. Asset class lifecycle experience in at least one of these asset classes: Rates, Credit
7. Knowledge of trading business processes including Electronic Trading, Pricing, Risk, Trade Capture, Trade Lifecycle
8. Experience with Fixed Income electronic trading systems and order management systems
9. Knowledge of Software development process (Agile methodology preferred)
10. Project management business acumen (status, risks, issues, dependencies) and experience with associated tools e.g. Jira
11. Bachelors Degree in associated focus (Product Management, Finance, STEM, etc)

We’d Love to See:

1. A highly motivated consensus builder who collaborates well in a team
2. Detail-oriented individual with solid analytic skills
3. Excellent presentation and communication skills including written, graphic and verbal
4. Ability to engage senior technology staff both internally & externally