At Bloomberg, our products are fuelled by powerful information. We combine data and context to paint the whole picture for our clients, around the clock – from around the world. In Global Data, we’re responsible for delivering this data, news, and analytics through innovative technology - quickly and accurately.

The Role:

The Content Acquisition & Business Management team (CABM) is an integral part of the Data department. We lead the governance, costs, and quality of the data we acquire, and we collaborate with the wider company to develop our data acquisition strategies ensuring we are aligning with the agendas of our key partners.
You will be responsible for acquiring and publishing all pricing data, spanning across over the counter (OTC) instruments which makes Bloomberg so powerful. You will manage relationships, acquire data and improve data quality from our data contributors, including government agencies, regulators, central banks, industry associations, brokers, and key commercial banks whilst acquiring pricing content in the Middle East and Africa. You are also expected to establish relationships across different functions with the data contributors listed above - including Senior/Heads of departments spanning across Trading, Sales, Business Managers, E-commerce, Desk Support, and In-house Market Data Specialists.
Last but not least, you will work closely with Bloomberg Sales, Product & Market Specialist, Networks Specialist, Engineering and Data teams to ensure that the pricing is fast, reliable, and accessible across the Bloomberg platform and collaborate on go-to-market strategies, while always being on the lookout for new opportunities to enrich our data content.

We’ll trust you to:

• Build strong collaborative relationships across the content partners that will be assigned to you within the MEA market
• Proactively prospecting while also maintaining existing content partners relationships with key data contributors in order to identify and onboard strategic datasets to improve our data coverage, data quality and find growth opportunities - for example increasing market transparency for our clients through the data we acquire plus how to structure change initiatives such as LIBOR transition
• Become a true subject matter expert in OTC pricing by demonstrating your understanding of the data from your content partners, and by being a trusted adviser and responding to all queries relating to these datasets
• Ensure the quality of our data through proactively reviewing datasets from our content partners to ensure high quality pricing data is provided
• Partner with our Data and Enterprise Sales departments to better understand our clients' data needs or trends and identify any potential gaps to design and develop more robust data acquisition strategies

You’ll need to have:

• 5-10 years of experience* in sales and relationship management within financial services
• Established track record managing business development across tier 1 international banks or financial institutions
• Demonstrated knowledge in OTC and derivative products including any of the following - FX, Fixed income or OTC Derivatives
• Demonstrated experience building trust and influencing C level executives in order to develop long lasting business relationships and design effective product solutions, including but not limited to the improvement of data quality
• Comfort with a high degree of autonomy, and in managing priorities from multiple internal and external partners
• Shown ability to build and implement plans under tight deadlines through demonstrating partnership with other internal partners
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. Arabic, French or Portuguese is a plus.
• Willingness to travel within the region

*Please note we use years of experience as a guide, but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.

We’d love to see:

• An established network within MEA content partners including relationships with regulators, government agencies and state banks would be an advantage
• Demonstrated knowledge of market drivers for MEA especially linked to changes to market structure, benchmark reforms and regulations

Does this sound like you?

Apply! If we believe that you're a good match, we'll get in touch to let you know the next steps.
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