Technical Account Manager, Enterprise Services - Financial Solutions

Technical Account Manager, Enterprise Services - Financial Solutions

Location

London

Business Area

Sales and Client Service

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Description & Requirements
What's the role? You'll be the primary technical interface into Bloomberg for some of our largest clients, the trusted advisor they turn to when making major technology and data sourcing decisions. You'll form deep, lasting partnerships at multiple levels, and serve as the advocate for your customer within Bloomberg as well as the advocate for Bloomberg with your customer.  As a member of the Technical Account Management (TAM) team you will collaborate closely with your colleagues across our Enterprise Data and Enterprise Services divisions.

You'll enable our customers to gain maximum benefit from their partnership with Bloomberg by creating joint strategy sessions focused on the evolution of their technology and how our products and services become integral to their journey. Through listening to our client’s needs and investing heavily in our products and people, we have reached a genuinely exciting point in the evolution of our delivery and content offerings.

Driving organizational & technology change across both client and internal environments needs to be a core part of your wheelhouse. You need to enjoy planning, strategy and co-designing solutions with clients. Ideally, you will have honed these skills in pre-sales, management consulting or professional services. Your skills will be vital in helping clients become comfortable with our offerings, working closely with Sales to achieve this.

Your strong understanding of our clients and their use of our products will also enable you in providing input to our product management teams, helping shape the future direction of our products. We'll trust you to:
Handle pre-sales duties by: • Partnering with the account team, including Sales and Product Specialists, to identify and provide technical qualification of sales opportunities • Understanding client technical strategy and roadmap, matching Bloomberg solutions to requirements • Providing design and analysis on proposed requirements for implementing and supporting new products based upon a thorough analysis of client feedback Project Management needs to be second nature: • Forming a comprehensive and achievable integration plan in collaboration with clients for integration into target applications across multiple regions • Leading the engagement, leveraging the necessary internal resources to ensure a successful delivery of the agreed solution Manage assigned accounts effectively by: • Developing account plans with clear goals against which you will execute • Building and maintaining a strategic relationship with your client base with frequent interactions to ensure you have a strong pulse on client’s technical activities and future plans • Providing technical subject matter expertise across the Enterprise Data Technology product portfolio • Ensuring a consistent, cohesive and comprehensive level of service delivery into your accounts, including but not limited to leading steering committee and regular service review meetings • Forging deep relationships across the client's technology teams within both the vertical IT and business silos (Equities, FICC etc.)

and horizontal functions (CTO, Architecture, Infrastructure, Sourcing etc.) • Attaining a deep and extensive understanding of your client's architecture, infrastructure and application environment You’ll need to have: • Experience in a client facing role in financial services or a financial technology company • Knowledge of financial market data products, delivery services, APIs and protocol technologies • Experience working in a consultative sales or…