Director, Private Markets Proposition

Location: New York

** SUMMARY OF ROLE:
** This individual will join a team focused on defining, managing and supporting workflow, feeds & content solutions for financial professionals using LSEG’s Private Markets products.

This proposition role is responsible for defining, communicating, and leading the strategy and product development roadmap within the Private Markets business. The proposition manager will own the product vision, gather and prioritize requirements, define the product roadmap and work closely with user experience/design, content, data & feeds, development and quality assurance to deliver required capabilities to market.  The proposition manager will work in a dynamic group with cross-functional resources.

The proposition manager is also responsible for identifying trends in the market and working closely with clients and commercial teams to identify and respond to changes and competitive developments.

The successful candidate will be tasked with executing a strategy for long term sustainable growth of LSEG’s footprint in this area through an understanding of market and competitive dynamics and will detail and drive execution around requirements for product, content, commercials, packaging and other innovation.  The role requires the successful candidate to lead across a matrixed organisation and will require strong direction setting and influencing skills to work with technology, content and sales teams to deliver results.

The role reports to the Global Head of Investment Banking and Sellside Research business.
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* KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

*** Enhance, innovate and perfect LSEG’s Private Markets solutions (Workspace/Office/Content/Feeds).
* Deliver on LSEG’s Private Market product priorities, taking products to market from inception.
* Conduct regular customer meetings to gather feedback, validate approach and inform product strategy.
* Lead client driven innovation around Workspace/Office views, workflows, feed capabilities primarily for users across all Private Market communities at LSEG.
* Act as a product specialist and spokesperson internally and externally ensuring our value proposition is articulated clearly to commercial teams, prospects and customers.
* Work with other members of Product, SAM, Content and LSEG Capital Markets colleagues to prioritize key capability requirements needed for our users and identify opportunities to deliver solutions to the customer base.
* Ensure requirements are documented, validated and articulated to stakeholder parties including, Product, SAM, Content, Data & Feeds, & Customer Operations.
* Engage with the wider LSEG organization including SAM, Marketing, LSEG Capital Markets and Support to drive awareness and collaboration.
** QUALIFICATIONS & KNOWLEDGE:
*** Bachelors Degree in Business, Finance or Mathematics
* 3+ years working within Global Financial Market environments, with at least 2 years managing financial content, software products & solutions
* Strong analytical abilities (modelling, results tracking and interpretation), supplemented with exceptional project management skills
* Excellent written and oral communication skills with a demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams and able to build and deliver insightful/inspiring presentations to large audiences
* Knowledge of Investment Banking workflows, content needs and the requirements
* Passion for the investment process, security analysis, M&A and capital markets
* Passion for delivering cutting edge solutions.
* Proven ability to navigate the organisation, delivering global projects to fruition.

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