Associate Director, European Commercial Marketing

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

The Team & Role:

The S&P Dow Jones Indices’ (S&P DJI) global marketing team is responsible for promoting the S&P DJI brand and driving awareness and adoption of S&P DJI offerings and index-linked products in close collaboration with our clients and industry partners.

The position is part of S&P DJI’s Commercial Marketing team in Europe, reporting to the head of European Marketing. The team’s remit is to help develop and execute omni-channel product and channel marketing strategies to improve competitive positioning, increase product brand awareness and provide educational support for S&P DJI’s iconic brands and S&P DJI index-linked products and capabilities. Targeted audience profiles include asset owners, wealth management, capital markets and insurance across European markets. The role is part of a small collaborative regionally focused team where team members are responsible for end-to-end programming, execution and reporting.

The individual will collaborate regularly across the global S&P DJI Marketing team to plan and execute campaigns, communicate with stakeholders in the commercial and product teams, and work with external partners including ETF providers, exchanges, pension plans, insurance carriers etc., agencies/vendors and professional bodies.

The Impact:
This role will help promote the S&P DJI brand as the world’s leading, independent, index solutions provider. As part of the broader commercial organization, Marketing is responsible for helping to drive market share and revenue connecting Marketing activities (advertising, digital marketing, content marketing, events etc.) to specific commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities:
As part of the European Commercial Marketing team, you will be responsible for helping to drive market share, revenue and leads, and connecting Marketing activities to specific commercial outcomes. The candidate will work in lock step with our European commercial teams and clients to drive awareness of our index solutions, and drive adoption and AUM growth in S&P DJI index-linked products.

Program Management: Execution of marketing campaigns and related performance in a transparent and informative manner, including regular reporting requirements for internal and external stakeholders. Contribute to a rigorous, systematic and transparent metrics analysis to underpin the team’s and business leaders’ decision processes. The role is responsible for marketing activities across the entire marketing mix, including events (hosted, third party), and their related metrics and outcomes - this is a hands-on role across all deliverables and channels requiring individual accountability.

Account Based Marketing: The Commercial Marketing team’s role also focuses on managing marketing relationships with key partners and clients across European markets and delivering optimization marketing techniques to support including, but not restricted to, event programming and end-to-end event management, digital campaigns, content marketing, and associated reporting and analysis.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of financial markets experience ideally gained with an asset management or similar organization. Strong Marketing background with proven experience executing across the marketing mix. Well versed in industry dynamics and regulatory landscape. Knowledge of ESG/Sustainability is advantageous.
• Must be fluent in English, other European languages an advantage.
• Bachelor’s degree (Marketing, Communications, Business or related field preferred).
• Demonstrated interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with a track record of driving measurable and significant results. Must possess strong and effective written skills with the ability to deliver impactful communications tailored to audiences.
• Proven to be detail-oriented and possess a track record of managing multiple projects simultaneously, including events and time-driven activations.
• Requires ability to interact with varying levels of management and stakeholders across the organization and demonstrate commercial acumen.
• Foundational understanding of the principals of the primary uses of indices and index-based products by portfolio managers, financial analysis, institutional-quality asset owners and product issuers.
• Comprehension of the basic pillars of investment management /asset allocation and the goals of financial market participants, including institutional investors, financial advisors, etc.
• Must be able to demonstrate experience managing multiple marketing campaigns and activations end-to-end across eMarketing, digital, webinars/events, and social media coupled with a collaborative team mentality.
• Must demonstrate forward thinking and solution-solving style and ability to rationalize available opportunities for the S&P DJI opportunity set.

Flexible Working

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can.

Return to Work

Have you taken time out for caring responsibilities and are now looking to return to work? As part of our Return-to-Work initiative, we are encouraging enthusiastic and talented returners to apply, and will actively support your return to the workplace.

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indices

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We’re the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji.