| Department Overview |
| Markit Economics is a specialist compiler of business surveys and economic indices, including the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) series, which is now available for 26 countries and key regions including the Eurozone and BRIC. The PMIs have become the most closely-watched business surveys in the world, favoured by central banks, financial markets and business decision makers for their ability to provide up-to-date, accurate and often unique monthly indicators of economic trends. |
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| Role Summary |
| The individual will be responsible for contributing to the creation, development and maintenance of the product suite within the business. Designing, monitoring and assisting in the delivery of new projects and promoting the new products to both the Markit sales team as well as to clients.
The individual will liaise with both clients and other Markit departments to identify new product opportunities, defining requirements and working with internal teams to ensure delivery whilst managing client’s expectations.
The individual will support the co heads of the product and other team members in developing products and managing client implementations.
The position will be based in London, but will work closely with other product specialists in London, New York and Singapore. |
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| Duties and Responsibilities |
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| The role will work closely with clients, sales, client services and the Dividend, Index and ETF development and product service teams to drive the development of new products. |
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| During product development phases, the individual will be closely involved in contributing to business and user requirement documents, identifying data sources, validating data, testing and contributing to sales collateral. |
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| Manage client specific initiatives and any development of ‘in-house’ business deliverables. |
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| Work closely with both clients and the operations team to review, monitor, and enhance third party data quality |
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| Meet with clients regularly to promote product initiatives and support the sales process and client presentations |
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| Research and identify new opportunities across the product range. |
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| Produce internal business cases for new product development opportunities. |
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| Produce/ maintain product factsheets and sales support literature to promote product range. |
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| Research and produce competitor and market opportunity statistics |
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| Business Competences |
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| Commercial Awareness |
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| High degree of commercial awareness. Needs to be motivated by the commercial impact of product development. |
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| Experience of developing commercially successful products/businesses |
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| Management Requirements |
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| High degree of commercial awareness. Needs to be motivated by the commercial impact of product development. |
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| Experience of developing commercially successful products/businesses |
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Personal Competences |
| Personal Impact |
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| Pleasant personality, people across the firm will want to work with individual. |
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| Excellent leadership and communication skills. The individual should be ambitious and have a strong will to achieve both businesses and their own goals. |
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| Flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations. |
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| The individual will have direct high impact on the bottom line of the business and the reputation of Markit Group and Markit Equities. |
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| The individual needs to be, in order of importance:
- Client Facing
- Technically skilled
- Detail oriented
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| Communication |
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| Good verbal and written communication skills with clients, team members and sales teams. |
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| Must be able to converse confidently with key stakeholders (Internal & External) |
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| Teamwork |
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| Team Player and able to interact with product, operations and technical teams in a professional manner |
Contact Details |
| Interested applicants should send their CV and a covering letter to careers.europe@markit.com citing “VP/Director, Product Development, Equities” in the subject line.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis.
If you have not received a response within two weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
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Due to the high volume of applications we receive for each of our roles we are unable to respond on an individual basis. If you have not received a response within 2 weeks of having submitted your details, it is likely that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Please state in your covering letter that you are eligible to work in the location that we are seeking to make this appointment. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.
We kindly and respectfully request agencies not to submit applications.
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