About this role
Vice President, Product Strategist, European Equities team is seeking a Vice President to help execute our business strategy with a primary focus on European equity strategies. This is a commercial and technical role which operates at the intersection of our equity portfolios and clients. It requires a high degree of intensity, attention to detail, a keen interest in equity investing, and a passion for client service.
Role: The role’s primary objective is to act as a fiduciary to our clients and, in doing so, support business growth primarily across FE’s European funds. This includes both UK domiciled and Cross-border products, selling to clients globally.
Key Responsibilities:
- Acting as a subject matter expert on our portfolios and representing the investment team in client meetings (potentially to include international travel) and with internal stakeholders, including distribution, product governance, marketing and risk teams
- Contributing to devising and executing the team’s business strategy, including product innovation, channel activation, managing regulatory change and product life cycle management.
- Responding to client queries, request for proposals and requests from the Portfolio Managers
- Writing commentary for clients on market news, fund performance and portfolio activity
- Creating presentation materials, shaping the marketing narrative and producing thought leadership content
- Taking a proactive approach to solving clients’ investment-related, business and operational issues by serving as the liaison between the investment team and all other areas of BlackRock (marketing, sales, compliance, legal etc)
- Presenting to the broader investment team on various topics
- Collaborating with product strategists in other FE teams, e.g. on wider FE platform initiatives
