Product Manager - Fixed Income Index

Bloomberg is a leading provider of financial benchmarks and custom index services. We offer an innovative perspective on the traditional world of indexing, providing independent and unbiased indices that are broadly available. With expertise in capital markets, technology, data, pricing, analytics, distribution and research, our indices provide the global investment community with comprehensive solutions to fulfil their benchmarking needs across Fixed Income, Equity, Commodity, Cross-Asset, Crypto, Index-Linked and ESG. We also provide an array of services to clients interested in custom index development, investable index products designed to offer access to systematic strategies (beta, “smart” beta, and alpha), index administration and calculation agent services.

What’s the Role?

You'll be joining a highly motivated and successful Fixed Income Index team that sits within our Enterprise Data Product Group. Our Fixed Income Product Management work on the team responsible for idea generation across our Fixed Income Index business. You will be responsible for developing these ideas and working directly with clients and across internal functions to turn them into new index products. You will be expected to regularly interact with clients and work closely with our Sales team in nurturing client relationships and continually advocating new ideas to Bloomberg’s clients. You will also be expected to contribute to the evolution and enhancement of the Bloomberg Fixed Income Index offering.

You’ll adapt your communication style according to your audience and be equally adept at collaborating closely with colleagues across multiple teams as well as presenting to clients and soliciting feedback. You’ll be running simulations of potential new index products and creating internal and client-facing materials to support product launches. You’ll also have great interpersonal skills as they are essential to effectively collaborate with other internal teams and engage with clients. You’ll be someone with the ability to approach challenges with creativity and enthusiasm; someone who has the courage to take positions advocating change and then deliver.

Regarding domain expertise, you’ll have a deep knowledge of the institutional asset management industry, understand index trends, regulation and understand what our customers need. You will most probably have acquired this knowledge whilst working on product management for new investment vehicles in past roles with asset managers, consultants or index providers.

You’ll be expected to influence product vision and then execute on that vision. This may include product design, explore strategic partnerships and always deliver effective internal and external information.

We’ll trust you to:

• Contribute meaningfully to the creation of new index ideas and guide the business’ approach to new product development
• Work closely with clients to develop and deliver index products to support their investment needs
• Communicate the product vision within Bloomberg and build consensus among the senior leadership team
• Work across Bloomberg to collaborate on new product design with our research, engineering and index production teams
• Be responsible for the entire index lifecycle, from ideation and testing, to writing methodologies, to clients’ product launches
• Work closely with Index Sales to support business development

You’ll need to have:

• 5-10* years of index industry experience
• Deep knowledge of the Fixed Income asset class
• Experience in asset management, consulting, or index product space directly related to turning ideas into indices and indices into products.
• A strong academic background in one of analytical and technical degrees including, but not limited to: Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, Statistics or Economics
• Hands-on product experience, preferably from an index or research background
• Client-focused, with a genuine desire to problem-solve and to see the question from the client’s perspective
• Experience in back testing strategies
• Experience in writing white papers and crafting client-facing materials; excellent attention to detail
• A broad understanding of the index industry including key products, business dynamics, economic drivers, and critical connectivity partners across key market sub-segments
• A good knowledge of financial markets, securities, portfolio theory, and asset allocation models
• Strong marketing skills with a point of view on product positioning and product adoption
• Collaborative spirit and a team player
• Ability to develop thorough, integrated, commercially sound business plans
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, capable of building enthusiastic support for new business ideas
• Deep understanding of regulations on financial indices and day-to-day governance determinations on index events
• Experience in Python or R are a plus but not required