Manager, Reference Data, Product Management

Overview Job Purpose

The Manager, Reference Data, Product Management for Entity and Private Credit joins a dynamic team exposed to and challenged with driving revenue growth, leading the development of innovative products, and enhancing existing data assets. We are looking for a talented and passionate Product Manager to help drive forward product development with a background in reference data, entity content and alternative investments.

You should have experience building, enhancing, or supporting products related to reference data.

• Lead a team through the idea generation, technical development, implementation and launch of innovative products for entity data and alternative investments (private credit, private equity).
• Be the lead contributor towards the design and implementation of new business initiatives (e.g., new products).
• Define strategy to leverage external data for effective platform/product growth within the region.
• Take a data-driven approach to product enhancements, identifying opportunity areas and contributing to the Product roadmap, prioritizing work to deliver against key areas of focus.
• Partner with Strategic Delivery functions to develop and execute on product roadmaps.
• Participate in both formulating the business strategy as well as channeling into a clearly defined direction and product strategy.
• Work with other product and development leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery.
• Serve a critical role in the successful integration and subsequent product buildout of strategic company acquisitions.
• Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g. Product, Business Analysis, Software Engineering) in the development of business requirements to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with target market representatives, customers, and partners to create powerful and revenue generating solutions for the marketplace.
• Expertise in business requirements writing. Requires extensive knowledge of all areas of the business including but not limited to content, development, product design, workflow, billing, and configuration.
• Must be well versed in industry and company focused initiatives and understand how that content could be utilized within reference data products.
• Understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and help recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
• Liaise with the Stakeholders in managing, defining, prioritizing, planning, and executing the vision for our applications targeting our core Data Services customers.
• Identify and communicate project risks and issues.
• Ability to operate in a multi-tasking and deadline driven team environment.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Maximize efficiency in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are the norm.

• Bachelor’s degree is a minimum.
• 5 of experience in the financial services industry working with reference data. Ideally, some of these were when you were leading a team.
• 3 years of experience querying / retrieving data from structured databases (SQL/Oracle. Python).
• Experience with alternative investments.
• Excellent ability to communicate technical ideas and concepts to colleagues outside the domain.
• Strong collaboration skills – ability to navigate cross functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with an ability to develop a clear message for senior management and craft the story around it.
• Must have the ability to develop strong relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• Organized and structured with excellent attention to detail.
• Acute understanding of how data is stored and flows through systems and databases.
• Skilled in excel to analyze data, identify trends, and come to conclusions.
• Understanding of how to identify and develop product enhancements.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills – solid hands‑on experience of functional analysis, with extensive experience translating business…