Senior Credit Product Specialist Job Peoria area,Illinois USA,Finance & Banking

Serve as a senior commercial partner to Sales, Relationship Management, and regional leadership teams in developing and executing growth strategies.
Lead complex solution-oriented sales engagements from executive discovery through negotiation and contract execution.
Drive cross-sell, upsell, client expansion, revenue growth, retention, solution adoption, and market expansion across Credit Risk Solutions.
Advise senior client stakeholders on credit risk, regulatory, compliance, investment, and operational objectives.
Lead product demonstrations, workshops, strategy sessions, and consultative client engagements.
Deliver market insights on credit risk, quantitative modeling, private credit, regulatory developments, ratings usage, and portfolio management.
Represent the organization at conferences, webinars, industry events, client advisory boards, and thought leadership initiatives.
Identify client challenges and architect tailored multi-product data, analytics, and workflow solutions.
Develop business cases and value propositions demonstrating measurable ROI and strategic impact.
Optimize client workflows for credit underwriting, portfolio management, regulatory compliance, investment research, counter party risk, treasury, procurement, and enterprise risk management.
Provide client feedback, competitive intelligence, market trends, and enhancement recommendations to Product Management.
Collaborate on go-to-market strategy, product launches, pricing, packaging, and commercialization priorities.
Mentor junior product specialists, sales teams, and commercial stakeholders.
Partner with regional and global colleagues across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Lead internal enablement, advanced training, and guidance for sales and relationship management teams.
Support executive business reviews, renewal negotiations, strategic account planning, adoption, utilization, and long-term client value realization.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant experience in credit risk, fixed income, financial institutions, capital markets, commercial banking, investment management, market data, financial technology, or enterprise risk solutions.
Experience engaging senior client stakeholders and translating complex business needs into actionable solution strategies.
Deep understanding of credit markets, credit risk assessment, financial statement analysis, ratings, credit scoring, counter party risk, portfolio monitoring, and/or regulatory and compliance workflows.
Strong commercial acumen and demonstrated ability to support revenue growth, client retention, cross-sell/upsell, and strategic account development.
Willingness to travel as needed across the region.
Excellent executive presence, communication, presentation, negotiation, and storytelling skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Commerce, or a related field required.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex consultative client engagements, including executive discovery, solution design, product demonstrations, business case development, and commercial conversations.
Strong understanding of credit risk solutions, data, analytics, and workflow platforms.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities, client engagements, and strategic initiatives across market segments and geographies.
Leadership capabilities, including mentoring, enablement, best-practice sharing, and team knowledge development.
Intellectual curiosity, creativity, accountability, and proactive problem-solving.
Independent and self-motivated, comfortable operating with limited supervision.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and relevant market data/analytics platforms required.
Indefinite right to work in the United States required.
MBA, Master’s in Finance,…