ESG Market Specialist - German Speaker

Description & Requirements

The Market Specialist team serves as the financial markets & workflow experts at Bloomberg. On any given day as a Market Specialist, 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 product. 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, sales representatives, analysts, and more, our team of market 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, we also play 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 ESG market specialists team is key to positioning our growing suite of ESG products to our client base, and working hand-in-hand with the ESG product teams to deliver market-leading solutions as we aim to become one of the leaders in the ESG space and deliver on our founder's commitment and ambition in climate and beyond. Being part of this team gives you an opportunity to be part of one of the most dynamic and growing areas at Bloomberg.

We'll trust you to:

• Apply 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 decisions makers and our clients
• Establish your own roadmap of initiatives 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:
• Deep technical understanding of either credit or equity markets
• Strong background in ESG, including the integration of ESG and related topics into financial market participants workflows
• Expertise in various ESG themes and regulations with the ability to articulate financial markets relevant insights and research
• Practical experience using the Terminal, or similar product, and applicable asset class functionality
• Extensive and strong relationships within your market
• 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 mind-set, along with ability to operate within both departmental and company-wide initiatives, in a non-hierarchical structure without corporate titles
• A willingness to travel across Europe as required in order to provide clients with a premier service
• Outstanding presentation, training and communication skills in English
We'd love to see:
• An entrepreneurial outlook 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 several departments in a large financial institution either as an employee or as an external consultant
• An interest in alternative data and its application to ESG analysis
• Experience of Python, capable of writing basic applications and discussing the process of building data-driven products
• Sustainability-related qualifications 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, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: