Bloomberg offers a diverse range of fixed income, commodity, currency and equity indices. With extensive asset coverage, a strong history of innovation, and objective and transparent rules, Bloomberg indices are widely used as a source for portfolio construction and performance comparison. We offer an array of services to clients interested in custom index development, investable index products designed to offer access to systematic strategies, index administration and calculation agent services. Bloomberg indices are driven by the same trusted reference data, pricing and analytical calculations that are leveraged throughout the investment process.
What’s the role?
Index Sales Specialists at Bloomberg are responsible for new business development in addition to maintaining existing client relationships for Bloomberg Index solutions. As the South East Asia Index Sales Specialist, you will be responsible for positioning, demonstrating and licensing Bloomberg’s fixed income, equity, and multi-asset class index solutions to prospective customers in addition to existing clientele across financial institutions in the territory, including the investment management, sell-side and asset owner community.
This is a highly visible role within the organization with involvement in shaping strategy, senior level relationship management and in-depth discussions regarding Bloomberg index methodology and product development.
You will be responsible for all aspects of Indices related engagements, including data subscriptions, customization, and asset-based licensing.  The role requires close collaboration, and strong communication with global sales, client services and support teams, research, marketing, product management to deliver optimal solutions to our customers in the region. You will be joining a highly experienced, motivated and fast-growing Index Relationship Management team across Asia Pacific that sits within Global Financial Product Sales.
The position is based in Singapore, with coverage spanning across South East Asia markets, including Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.

We’ll trust you to:
Build senior level relationships with many of the top institutional investment firms in the worldAchieve annual sales and revenue targets across the index solutions product suiteUtilize your market experience, knowledge of industry trends, and technical skillset throughout the sales process from developing awareness to commercial and contract executionConduct in-depth discussions regarding Bloomberg index methodology and new product requirementsProduce clear, concise proposals with an appropriate level of detail that identifies client needs, current workflows, proposed solutions, and commercialsTake a lead role in conducting internal and external training sessions and sales pitchesCollaborate extensively with different internal teams to cross-sell our suite of solutionsTravel regularly to meet with clients and prospects
You’ll need to have:
Minimum 7 years of client facing experience in Financial Institutions such as Asset Owners, Investment Managers, Sell-side or a Financial Services firm providing Index SolutionsMinimum 5 years of experience of Indices in a Sales and/or Portfolio management capacity to Asset Owners, Investment Managers or Financial Institutions in South East Asia.Experience leading senior-level client conversations in an established network in the South East Asia Investment community gained within the last 5 yearsAn astute commercial mind-set, working to exceed sales metricsDemonstrable ability to identify new prospects and build and maintain client relationshipsExcellent communication skills to be able to credibly lead senior level client conversationsAbility to creatively market our product to a vast demographic of potential clientsA self-starter and dedicated collaborator with multi-tasking skillsAbility to travel regularly across South East AsiaExcellent written and verbal communication skill in EnglishDemonstrated continuous career growth within an organizationBachelor’s degree or degree-equivalent qualifications
We’d love to see:
Experience in balancing engagements and priorities across the sales lifecycle to maintain desired pipeline levels for long, medium, and short-term salesSouth East Asian language skills such as Thai, or Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Indonesia
If this sounds like you:
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/products/indices/

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