Market Specialist, Equity

Bloomberg; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg is seeking a Market Specialist in Singapore to support Sales by leveraging deep market experience and industry knowledge. You will advise senior clients, help close opportunities, and relay critical feedback to shape product development.

Role requires extensive equities background, strong communication, and travel readiness to engage across regional markets, with Bloomberg Terminal proficiency as a core tool.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of client-facing experience in Financial Services or a Financial Technology company.
• Minimum 5 years experience in an equities role such as sales, trading, research, portfolio management.
• Experience leading senior level client conversations gained within the past 5 years.
• Practical experience using the Bloomberg Terminal and applicable asset class functionality.
• The ability to convey complex ideas and solutions in a simple and concise way to audiences both large and small.
• Strong communication skills to credibly lead senior level client conversations, gain insight into clients' enterprise workflow, and promote Bloomberg solutions.
• The business insight required to use your knowledge and experience to make good judgement and quick decisions to tangibly impact the commercial success of our business.
• A reciprocal and commercial approach, along with the ability to operate within both departmental and company-wide initiatives, in a non-hierarchical structure without corporate titles.
• Ability to travel.
• Excellent presentation, training, and communication skills in English.
• Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organisation.

Responsibilities

• Utilise your strong market experience, detailed knowledge of industry trends, and demonstrated technical skills to drive revenue opportunities across our suite of solutions.
• Act in an advisory capacity to our clients around the challenges that they face, and how they can use our products and technology to solve them.
• Develop an in depth understanding of the competitor landscape and how this affects both internal and external customers.
• Influence the direction of Bloomberg products through thought leadership, contribution on innovative ideas, and establishing relationships between Bloomberg's decisions makers and our clients.
• Develop and establish your own road-map of initiatives based off your in depth understanding of markets, tools, and workflows that align with product, sales, and company goals, and then maintain check-in points, and self-report successes and challenges on these strategies.
• Participate actively in new projects that drive departmental and firm-wide initiatives and goals.
• Seek out additional ways to make an impact, such as mentoring, involvement in training, running campaigns, and active involvement in product enhancement

Skills

Client facing

Equities knowledge

Communication skills

Industry experience

Travel flexibility

Presentation skills

English fluency

Tools

Bloomberg Terminal

Job description

Bloomberg is a global leader in business and financial information, news and insight, and we use innovative technology to deliver trusted data and bring transparency to the financial markets. Our customers around the globe rely on us for the information and tools they need to make critical investment decisions and remain connected across all sides of the financial community. And, to ensure the best experience for our 26,000+ employees across more than 150 locations around the world, we provide the spaces and systems that allow our teams to work together with agility, productivity and collaboration, no matter where they are.

What's the role?

Market Specialists support our Sales teams serving as subject matter experts within Bloomberg. On any given day in this role, you will be consulting with senior decision makers at client accounts, helping to close new sales opportunities, and providing critical feedback to help shape the development of our tools and services with the product management teams. By championing the Bloomberg Professional Service at market events and through printed material, you become the face of our company!

The Market Specialists are comprised of a broad spectrum of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills with experience from the buy-side, sell-side, as well as market and industry participants. The team's core responsibility is not only to heighten our user base’s experience and impact sales revenue, but also play a vital role in improving the knowledge of our sales force, and are a dedicated source of client feedback for our product development teams. The team also highlight their market expertise through writing for a variety of publications or speaking at internal and external events.

We'll trust you to:

• Utilise your strong market experience, detailed knowledge of industry trends, and demonstrated technical skills to drive revenue opportunities across our suite of solutions
• Act in an advisory capacity to our clients around the challenges that they face, and how they can use our products and technology to solve them
• Develop an in depth understanding of the competitor landscape and how this affects both internal and external customers
• Influence the direction of Bloomberg products through thought leadership, contribution on innovative ideas, and establishing relationships between Bloomberg's decisions makers and our clients
• Develop and establish your own road-map of initiatives based off your in depth understanding of markets, tools, and workflows that align with product, sales, and company goals, and then maintain check-in points, and self-report successes and challenges on these strategies
• Participate actively in new projects that drive departmental and firm-wide initiatives and goals
• Seek out additional ways to make an impact, such as mentoring, involvement in training, running campaigns, and active involvement in product enhancement

You'll need to have:

• Minimum 7 years of client facing experience in Financial Services or a Financial Technology company
• Minimum 5 years experience in an equities role such as sales, trading, research, portfolio management
• Experience leading senior level client conversations gained within the past 5 years
• Practical experience using the Bloomberg Terminal and applicable asset class functionality
• The ability to convey complex ideas and solutions in a simple and concise way to audiences both large and small
• Strong communication skills to credibly lead senior level client conversations, gain insight into clients' enterprise workflow, and promote Bloomberg solutions
• The business insight required to use your knowledge and experience to make good judgement and quick decisions to tangibly impact the commercial success of our business
• A reciprocal and commercial approach, along with the ability to operate within both departmental and company-wide initiatives, in a non-hierarchical structure without corporate titles
• Ability to travel
• Excellent presentation, training, and communication skills in English
• Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organisation

We'd love to see:

• ASEAN language proficiency (Thai, Tagalog, or Vietnamese would be a plus) as the role will require travel to these markets
• Proficiency in leveraging artificial intelligence tools for Equity related workflows
• Familiarity in ESG or sustainable finance

We’re individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and experiences who take on big challenges and create even bigger impact through our work. We’re interested in what makes you you, and how we can create opportunities for you to channel your unique, personal energy and grow to your fullest potential.

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Bloomberg is committed to improving the communities, cities and countries in which we work, and we support various initiatives including hiring and developing local talent. So, we may prioritise candidates with legal authorisation to work full-time in Singapore for this role, who do not require Bloomberg to sponsor their work authorization.

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