Commodity Investor Products and Metals Job Requisition Number: 26838 United States New York - NY

The Company
Bloomberg is the world's most trusted source of information for businesses and professionals. Bloomberg combines innovative technology with unmatched analytic, data, news, display and distribution capabilities, to deliver critical information via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service and multimedia platforms. Bloomberg's media services cover the world with more than 2,200 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. The BLOOMBERG TELEVISION® 24-hour network delivers smart television to more than 240 million homes. BLOOMBERG RADIO® services broadcast via SIRIUS XM Radio and 1worldspaceTM satellite radio globally and on WBBR 1130AM in New York. The award-winning monthly BLOOMBERG MARKETS® magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine and the BLOOMBERG.COM® financial news and information Web site provide news and insight to businesses and investors.

The Role
Core Project Manager is an operational role, assisting a core product manager in sourcing information, obtaining feedback from clients, and managing ad-hoc projects that are part of the overall product strategy to which they are assigned. The project manager will also be responsible for internal marketing and the logistics of and product launch.

Goal of Core Products
Our goal is create Bloomberg commodity functionality which gives the customer information which they can use to make money. We want users to want to come back to Bloomberg functions day after day. The ultimate function in one which users need because it provides something unavailable elsewhere and is fun and powerful to use. The functions should be intuitive to use with little if any training even if the function is complex. Functions should quickly address questions for which the answer changes daily or even more frequently.

Product Design
The core product role has several parts: 1. Listening to and being aware of customer needs; 2. Determining if and how Bloomberg can meet those needs and if satisfying an individual customer can be leveraged to satisfy many customers; 3. Looking for and acting on feedback from others inside Bloomberg; 4. Data acquisition, 5. Product design with iterative feedback from beta testers; 6. Training Bloomberg sales on the function and marketing the function; 7. Anticipating, listening to and reacting to customer feedback and suggestions; 8. Rolling out enhancements.

Industry Knowledge and Contacts
The role requires the individual to know the global commodity investor product s (such as ETFs, ETNs, indices) and metals markets well and to have deep contacts in the market to stay in touch with market developments and needs. The role requires communicating with users, learning/knowing what users need and then synthesizing this to design financial products which can be used across the market by many users. The role requires the person to be a people person able to sell the product in addition to being a good listener with the ability to know what good financial markets design is and pick up on great customer ideas.

Qualifications:
-Must have 5+ years experience working at a bank or financial institution within
the commodities business.
- Strong knowledge of commodities, especially Commodity Investor Products, Base and Precious metals
- Familiarity with Bloomberg Terminal.
- Prior experience in project management.
- Existing contacts on Commodity Investor Products and metals trading and sales desks.
- Sales experience and being a people person (strong communication skills) is an advantage.
- Ability to determine the difference between good and bad function design.
- Go getter with drive.
- Ability to follow through on goals independently while communicating progress.

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