Product Manager, Apac

The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.

Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.

Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.

The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.

Founded in London in 1866, the Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,200 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview:
TP ICAP’s eMarkets group is responsible for driving innovation and evolution within the business. The groups supports the Senior Managing Directors and Desk Heads in growing their business via design and delivery of new technologies and services, and driving adoption of these products and services with both new and existing clients.

The Product & Business Development Management team are at the leading edge of this process
- each Product & Business Development Manager (“Manager”) is tasked with overseeing a particular asset class or product/service-in this instance, Foreign Exchange & Local Markets, championing it both internally and externally. This asset class primarily includes Spot, Forwards, Non Deliverable Forwards, and FX Options products. The Manager is responsible for the entire lifecycle of the product, from developing and validating the business case, through design, delivery and launch, its commercial viability (both front to back office) and long term growth strategy. They work closely with all the stakeholders - clients, brokers, IT and other teams internally to ensure the right product is delivered on time and within budget.

Job duties:
Key responsibilities are to:

- Translate business strategy into product strategy
- Own the product roadmap
- Execute product strategy
- Drive action throughout the organization to get products to market
- Plan and carry out product launches
- Provide insight to stakeholders on the product and market
- Write high-level requirements
- Manage all aspects of in-life products, including customer feedback, requirements, and issues.
- Leads Regional Product management team in product development, strategy, and redesign from concept through development and manufacturing to market launch.
- Assesses market competition by comparing the company’s product to competitors’ products.
- Introduces and markets new products by developing time-integrated plans with sales, advertising, and production.
- Maintain a working understanding of external connectivity including but not limited to FIX protocol.
- Remain abreast with any regulatory changes which may impact the regional businesses.
- Change Management
- Work with local ops and IT teams to document detailed change requests and defects of system functionality using management tools such as Jira - based on feedback from users either during UAT or production usage (small CR’s)
- User training
- Provide training for users of the system - Brokers, middle office and IT
- Produce detailed user manuals and training guides
- Produce detailed documentation on system functionality
- Communication
- Needs champion regional technology requirements in global forums and articulate both the commercial and technical details around these.
- Create a regional product roadmap with the agreement of various stakeholders and ensure delivery of the same.
- Communicate the current status of the rollout schedule to the project and programme managers
- Highlight and communicate issues that may introduce risk to the project schedule
- Form a close working relationship with support teams
- Work closely with the development project team to receive prioritisation and schedule updates

Experience / Competences
- Proven ability to work and deliver technical solutions
- Experience in managing development teams located across multiple geographies
- Experience to run stakeholder forums to review cost benefit analysis with the regional and global stakeholders
- Experience in preparing and present workflow artefacts (Visio and Project plans)

Knowledge and Experience:

- Demonstrate an understanding of the technical and commercial aspects of the product and business
- Working understanding of APIs and connectivity to external parties.
- Straight Thru Processing providers and Clearing House processes
- Previous experience providing technical support to Front office functions in a financial institution

Job Band and Level: Manager, 7

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