Director, Sustainable Fixed Income Products
The Group: Morningstar Sustainalytics delivers high-quality, analytical environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate research, ratings and data to institutional investors and companies. Our research is empowering the world’s leading institutional investors to identify, understand, and manage risks and opportunities from an ESG perspective. We are a global leader in sustainability and corporate ESG solutions, informing and advocating to improve the world we live in.
The Role: Our Sustainable Fixed Income (SFI) business is a rapid growth business, responsible for developing and bringing ESG products catering to the debt capital market for multi-national corporations and financial institutions. Sustainalytics has been recognized as the largest external reviewer of green bonds by Environmental Finance and the Climate Bonds Initiative for several consecutive years.
We're seeking a Product Leader to oversee product management for our Sustainable Fixed Income products. This includes green/social/sustainability bond second-party opinions and other services that help our clients to provide sustainability insights to investors and lenders. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated product management expertise in fixed income or a related product area and a deep commitment to Sustainability. This position can be based in Amsterdam, London, Toronto, Chicago or Frankfurt.
Job responsibilities:
- Assure the commercial success of the business by establishing and executing a Sustainable Fixed Income product strategy across all client segments in key regionals around the world.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including research, methodology, data, technology, sales and marketing research to develop and deliver products that leverage our intellectual property to meet users’ needs.
- Develop business requirements refined and validated with internal and external users, prioritize conflicting work, and work within an Agile software development framework.
- Together with marketing, create Go-To-Market plans that to support sales.
- Monitor industry trends and competitive landscape to identify opportunities for innovation.
- Understand the needs of clients in all major markets/regions, conducting market research and gathering customer feedback to inform product decisions.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in product management or a related field, with a focus on building Research or data products preferred.
- Experience in Sustainability and Financial Services is required, Fixed Income is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- A proven track record of building and managing high-performing product delivering double digit growth for a $5+ million-dollar business.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience performing user research, developing a product vision and building products using agile development methodologies and product development best practices
- Ability to present complex information at industry events and strategic client meetings
- Strategic mindset, with the ability to use data to identify and prioritize key opportunities and challenges.
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Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.
