Your Team Responsibilities
The ideal candidate will bring prior experience and be a fast learner and adapter to fit into the culture of a high-growth organization. The candidate would work with clients and internal stakeholders across different functions on a day-to-day basis to understand client needs and market trends and provide MSCI index solutions, both off-the-shelf and new ideas, for Active Asset Managers.
Your Key Responsibilities
- The Active ETF Specialist EMEA will report to the EMEA Head of Indexed Investments & Solutions and be responsible for engaging with Asset Managers, primarily in the UK and continental Europe, with the goal of supporting their growth and financial product development index-linked products (e.g., for Active ETFs).
- Be entrepreneurial in efforts to establish and build upon client relationships, especially key investment personnel and product-related decision makers.
- Develop in-depth understanding of clients’ strategic product initiatives, as well as efficiency and cost-focused priorities for scale and asset growth, to develop and position innovative new product ideas and workflows.
- Build client specific and business specific plans and strategies in tandem with the regional Index Products team, which includes the development of internal and external pitch book material and collateral.
- Coordinate efforts and initiatives by collaborating with existing specialists, senior account managers, product, research, marketing and other teams.
- Support management with business reporting and strategy/operating plan development.
Your skills and experience that will help you excel
- The successful candidate will have a minimum 10 years of experience within the Active Asset Management industry, with an emphasis on roles including product strategy, development and execution, client portfolio management and/or business development for financial products (e.g., publicly available ETFs or mutual funds).
- Deep understanding of active portfolio construction — including investment frameworks, decision-making processes, and alpha generation methodologies along with quantitative bottom up and top-down techniques.
- A thorough sense of the competition, market structure and regulatory landscape, inclusive of trends and how those may shape future product needs.
- Knowledge of key players and client segments throughout the ecosystem, including asset owners, wealth managers, liquidity providers, and traditional as well as digital distribution platforms.
- Strong track record of innovation, collaboration and communication, preferably with global cross-functional teams such as research, client coverage, product, marketing and technology.
- Ability to integrate and apply the full MSCI toolkit — leveraging analytics, data, research, and technology — to support clients across the entire alpha delivery lifecycle.
- Proven analytical skills and a solutions mindset.
- Experience of integrating climate considerations into investment strategies is considered a plus.
- Impeccable attention to detail, excellent organizational skills and an ability to run multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Ideally knowledge of Python, Vba and SQL but not a prerequisite
- Proficiency in AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude.
