Market Specialist - Equity Focused for Middle East & Africa, Financial Solutions | Dubai, UAE

Market Specialist - Equity Focused for Middle East & Africa, Financial Solutions

The Market Specialist team supports our Sales teams serving as subject matter authorities within Bloomberg. On any given day in this role, you will be collaborating with senior decision makers at client accounts, helping to close new sale opportunities, and providing critical feedback to help shape the development of our tools and services with the product management teams. By championing the Bloomberg Professional Service at market events and through printed material, you become the face of our company!

Comprised of former traders, portfolio managers, structurers, sales representatives, analysts, and more, our team of market & product specialists serve as the de facto market and asset class authorities. Our team not only heightens our user base's experience and impacts sales revenue, it plays a vital role in improving the knowledge of our sales force and is a dedicated source of client feedback for our product development teams. The team is also able to highlight their market expertise through writing for a variety of publications or speaking at internal and external events.

We will trust you to:

• Utilise your strong market experience, detailed knowledge of industry trends and demonstrated technical skills to assist in generating revenue for our terminal business and suite of Enterprise solutions.
• Act in an advisory capacity to our clients around the challenges that they face, and how they can or could use our products and technology to solve them.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the competitor landscape and how this affects both internal and external customers.
• Influence the direction of Bloomberg product through thought leadership, contribution on innovative ideas, and establishing relationships between Bloomberg's decision-makers and our clients.
• Develop & establish your own road-map of initiatives based off your in-depth understanding of markets, tools, and workflows that align with product, sales, and company goals. Maintain check-in points, and self-report successes and challenges on these strategies.
• Participate actively in new projects that drive departmental and firm-wide initiatives and goals.
• Seek out additional ways to make an impact, such as mentoring, involvement in training, running campaigns, and active involvement in product enhancement.

You'll need to have:

• Extensive experience in equity, portfolio analysis, quantitative analysis, and buy-side workflows.
• Practical experience using the terminal, or similar product, and applicable asset class functionality.
• The business insight required to use your knowledge & experience to make good judgement and quick decisions so as to tangibly impact the commercial success of our business.
• The ability to convey complex ideas and solutions in a simple and concise way to audiences both large and small.
• A reciprocal and commercial approach, along with the ability to operate within both departmental and company-wide initiatives, in a non-hierarchical structure without corporate titles or structure.
• A willingness to travel across MEA as required in order to provide clients with a premier service.
• Outstanding presentation, training, and communication skills in English.

We'd love to see:

• Fluency in Arabic would be a plus.
• Proven understanding and experience in Private Markets (Private Equity and Private Credit) with an established network.
• An entrepreneurial & commercial mindset with the ability to identify and develop opportunities for other groups within the company and to build strong external networks.
• Proven consultative sales skills, including competitive market research, lead generation, prospecting, business development, and closing sales.
• Experience working cross-functionally with product managers and engineers on product developments and enhancements.
• Strong experience in Python, capable of writing basic applications and discussing the process of building data-driven products.
• To be a CFA holder would be seen as a plus.

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.