eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Euroclear

• Location

  Belgium-Brussels Region

• Compensation

  Competitive package

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  05 Sep 2008

• eFC Ref no

  434026

The Product Manager Equities will champion the Equities business area and will have extensive knowledge and expertise of the Funds area and act as the product experts for it.

Euroclear is an international company, headquartered in Brussels city center, with offices in Braine L’Alleud, Evere, Paris, London, Amsterdam and representative offices around the world. Active in the B2B financial transactions business, Euroclear is the world's largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity and fund transactions. We step in the transaction processes as a trusted intermediary, taking payment and transferring ownership on behalf of buyers and sellers. In all, we handle over 560 000 transactions a day, to the tune of €1700 billion. Because we make the settlement process quicker and more secure, banks and other financial institutions are able to react faster, strike more complex deals and trade in more places at once. With almost 80 different nationalities, 1500 financial institutions on six continents buying and selling securities on the world’s busiest stock exchanges, and thousands of transactions to make every single hour, we offer a challenging and truly international work environment for talents from all sorts of academic walks of life.

Your Role:

The Product Manager Equities will champion the Equities business area and will have extensive knowledge and expertise of the Funds area and act as the product experts for it. He/She will ensure effective business management of the Equities product and will need to understand and meet the needs of Euroclear’s customers in this area.

The roles involves representing the product with internal and external audiences, and in addition to all the client-facing work, there is a need to research markets and product information, monitor regulatory changes, produce statistics and reports. The individual will need to work on their own initiative at the same time as consulting with other internal departments such as IT, business analysts and project managers to get the product up and running whilst liaising with the compliance and risk departments.

The Product Manager will monitor the market and conduct competitor analysis to understand Euroclear’s positioning and to enable the development of future strategies. He/She must be resilient and persistent enough to survive and push through what can be a long product cycle and be excellent at project management and coordination in order to steer the project through to completion. Communication of the product, provision of client facing support and credibility at senior levels will be important attributes.

Essential Skills:
•Product Management Expertise in the Equities market

•Leadership

•Client focused: excellent customer contact and relationship, ability to understand their needs and to deliver quality support

•Problem solving and critical thinking: ability to analyse complex issues involving different services to investigate alternative solutions, to challenge others’ ideas, to come with own suggestions and at the same time to put problems into perspective

•Team work and assertiveness: ability to work with people from different departments (Operations, Commercial, Agent Network, Legal, Risk…) while defending own ideas and motivating others to reach a common objective

•Planning/organizing: ability to organize / accomplish work efficiently and autonomously, seeking advice/support and escalating when necessary

•Making the difference: You strongly believe Euroclear Equities services can be further developed for the benefit of our clients and you want to take an active part in this services definition.

•High Learning Agility: A fast learner, with strong analytical and conceptual skills; creative and capable of keeping an ‘helicopter view’ on complex matters

•Excellent communication skills: Excellent communication skills, including the capacity to deal with various senior stakeholders internally, as well as the capacity to convey complex messages in written form and to be able to articulate policy recommendations to senior management and externally

 
Essential Experience:
•A good understanding of the different aspects of Euroclear services

•Experience in operations, project management and business analyst is a big plus

 
Education:
Typically business administration university degree, or other university degree but with strong interest for economic or financial background.

Essential Languages:
Dutch, French, English

We Offer:
You will be joining a dynamic best of class environment, offering extensive on- and off-the-job trainings. You will get the chance to develop expertise, project and/or people management competencies in an informal but supporting work atmosphere. Your success is our success. In addition to a competitive compensation package, a company car and attractive benefits, in line with your experience and commitment to progress, you will enjoy our extensive well being at work programme.