Vice President

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About this role

**Job Description**:
About Aladdin and Aladdin Wealth Technology

Aladdin investment technology is at the heart of BlackRock. It’s in our DNA and unlocks a deep understanding

of portfolio construction and risk. The Aladdin platform powers the tools, analytics and services that BlackRock makes available to financial professionals in the wealth market. We help them and their clients see the world in a way few others can. With a clearer picture of what’s happening within portfolios, wealth managers and their advisors can improve investment outcomes, provide better insights and create more meaningful relationships with clients. As technology continues to play a pivotal role in how our industry serves investors, BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth Tech business is transforming the way financial professionals help clients secure a better financial future.

The Aladdin Wealth Tech (AWT) business maximizes the same analytics framework used by Institutional investors to equip wealth management clients with business & risk management, and portfolio construction & analytics capabilities. Aladdin Wealth Enterprise (AWE) team within the AWT business is partnering with wealth managers to enhance their value proposition to their end clients, create rigor and scale in their investment, distribution, wealth advisory process and grow their businesses in a differentiated way.

Who are our clients?

Senior Executives, Business Heads, Relationship Managers, Investment Counselors, Project Managers, Private Bankers, Retail Financial Advisors and Product Specialists at all levels of Wealth Management and Securities Firm organizations. The platform empowers our users to help their clients achieve investment and risk management goals by providing them with direct access to the best in class investment advisory technology, portfolio insights and cutting-edge risk modelling methods. We pride ourselves on delivering a differentiated service, not software.

In this role, you will

Serve as a trusted working group level mid-level advisor and consultant to our clients, aiming to identify, understand, and influence business case to drive wealth business transformation.

Key Responsibilities include:

- Client opportunity: Develop deep relationships with working level stakeholders. Leverage relationship and deep client understanding to partner with other members of the client team to drive the stratification and navigation among senior client stakeholders (engage at C-Suite level and decision makers) to influence top-down & bottoms-up client Engagement, Adoption of our tools/analytics across various level of users and drive client organizations Commercialize the advisory practice (“EAC”)
- Commercial opportunity: Generate sustainable new revenue through Aladdin Wealth. Conduct and drive efforts in response to market events and industry trends, and influence data analytics projects to enable portfolio construction capabilities at wealth management firms
- Dedication to build: Operate as a strong contributing platform member within the 1Aladdin organization to develop the Wealth business in a focused manner.
- Product influence: Leverage commercial and strategic inputs to build compelling business case to wealth technology product and engineering leaders based on client feedback. Work closely with AWT leaders to ensure alignment between commercial vision, and overall platform technology strategy of Aladdin Wealth for the region.

Desired Qualifications:

- Demonstrate outstanding track-record as a platform and business solution lead with measurable impacts and tangible achievements in wealth management and/or wealth/investment management technology initiatives.
- Deep knowledge in wealth and retail securities distribution business.
- 5+ years of relevant experience in the Asian wealth management financial industry.
- Demonstrate dexterity in leveraging existing resource and knowledge to successful navigate and deepen influence at large organizations across all levels of stakeholders. Understand competing priorities and difference in views to help clients define and align their target business & operating model.
- A goal-oriented and creative strong team player with strong credibility in the market. Ability to switch between tactical and strategic mindset in helping clients drive behavioural change of their advisors, maximizing returns from the power of Aladdin technology.
- Demonstrate situational leadership to build and lead robust deal teams, operating across a large organization
- Validate experience within retail sales and financial advisory practice with proven track record of in delivering commercial outcomes for both individual investors and wealth/securities firm.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills and ability to influence throughout the organization, validated through strong critical thinking and high interpersonal skills.
- Fluency in English and one other Southeast Asian Language a