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The Bloomberg Financial Solutions department of 5,000 employees is at the forefront of ensuring success for our customers and employees alike. Our team comprises several key pillars: sales, service, operations, culture and brand. As a department, we are united by a common goal: We create meaningful relationships with clients by understanding their needs and delivering exceptional end-to-end support from sales and implementation, through their ongoing relationship with Bloomberg.
What's the role?
The BQuant Sales team works closely with Bloomberg clients to implement quantitative investment strategies and research using our Python Quant development platform - BQuant. Powered by Jupyter, our quant platform combines world-class open source Python libraries with the world's leading financial database, allowing our clients to generate unique research in quantitative finance and help them to capture alpha in a highly competitive landscape. The team applies advanced data science technologies to generate real world investment models and is involved in full life-cycle development, from initial pitches to clients, requirement gathering, prototyping, implementation, deployment and adoption.
We're looking for a versatile and successful sales professional for the Americas - including the US, Canada, Brazil, and LatAm. You will develop a business vision and build expertise within the quant data and technology community, so that you can build successful sales strategies, and maximize the significant opportunities that are in front of us. You'll work closely with clients and prospects to gain a clear understanding of their business needs, and provide consultative solutions to foster and strengthen relationships. You will also manage internal relationships concisely and with tact across Core Sales, Implementations, Product, Project Management Office, Negotiations and Software Engineering departments, whilst simultaneously managing customer expectations.
The right person will be hungry and excited for the opportunity to join one of the newest and fastest-growing segments of Bloomberg's product offerings that comes at a time when the shift in the industry to using data science and programmatic techniques is clear. You will hone your pitch by actively listening and consulting on client use cases, and bring back valuable information on where client gaps provide opportunities. You will play a role in shaping the future of Bloomberg.
We'll trust you to:

• Drive annual sales and revenue targets for our Data solutions product suite
• Lead enterprise sales engagements from beginning to end, fully maximizing your experience in financial market data and technology
• Identify client needs by demonstrating expertise in the Financial Services market, as well as our Quant development platform
• Acquire and maintain a good understanding of clients' quant strategies and plans for automation and cloud migration
• Produce clear, concise proposals with an appropriate level of detail that identifies client challenges and how our solutions can address them
• Establish & execute on strategies for your target market, generate new pipeline, manage the deal process through the various stages of the sales cycle, and ultimately hit your annual sales target
• Form relationships across client organizations to ensure that all partners are led appropriately as part of the sales process
• Balance engagements across the sales life-cycle to maintain desired pipeline levels for long, medium, and short-term sales
• Interact with various level of stakeholders including C-level executives

You'll need to have:

• Minimum 5 years' client facing experience in Financial Services or a Financial Technology company
• Experience in quantitative investment strategies or equity risk premia strategies gained within the past 5 years
• Experience establishing, developing and maintaining key relationships within strategic accounts, including senior client relationships at CxO level
• Proactive, motivated self-starter, comfortable in a fast paced client-driven environment, driving new business and expanding current client revenues
• A strategic mind set and demonstrable commercial acumen
• Strong communication skills in English
• Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organization
• Bachelor's degree or degree equivalent qualifications

We'd also love to see:

• Work experience in Python (advanced level)
• Knowledge of other programming languages such as R, VBA, SQL or similar
• Experience with cloud technology or machine learning applications in finance

What's It Like To Work Here?
We work hard. We are ambitious and set ourselves tough business goals. We are a meritocracy where everyone has a voice - not a job title. Working with people you trust, respect, and can collaborate with is more important than titles or position. Things move fast, and we want people who will enjoy working in this environment and feed off the energy. But it isn't all about work. Giving back is one of our core values, and there are many ways to get involved in philanthropic initiatives from helping local school kids with their reading to helping clean up local parks and waterways.
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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.
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Salary Range: 185,000 - 250,000 USD Annually Benefits Bonus
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