Regional Technical Product Manager

**POSITION PURPOSE**:
The role sits within the Investment Analytics and Data Services (IADS) business line, a part of BNP Paribas Securities Services (BP2S). The business mission is to design, promote and maintain best-in-class analytics and reporting solutions, as well as new data services. These solutions are tailored for institutional investors, to support their regulatory obligations, investment models and meet their increased demands for data consolidation and advanced analytics.

The three key pillars of the business are:

- a Trusted Data factory that supports the business via data governance and servicing of data
- a best-in-class Business Analytics & Reporting offer to provide clients with advanced analytics
- Technical expertise and product consulting for internal and external clients of IADS in Asia Pacific

Internal
- Relationship Managers
- Client Service Managers
- Go To Market teams
- Product Managers
- Data and Analytics teams
- IT teams
- Data Science team
- Administration teams
- Management regionally, locally, and globally

External
- BNP Paribas Clients
- Prospective Clients
- Asset consultants
- Vendors / Data Suppliers
- Industry bodies
- Regulators

The role will primarily focus on leading the technical expertise for the solution, including product design, development and enhancement according to agreed roadmaps. This includes dedicated responsibilities for the development of the Investment Analytics and Data Services product roadmap itself, the definition of the product proposition and supporting the associated business operating models for Investment Analytics and Data Services. The role acts as an internal business engine focused on helping to support and grow BPSS business in Investment Analytics and Data Services and to seek leverage on other business lines of BPSS when implementing solutions.

Key responsibilities include product positioning and communications to our client facing and client development teams, particularly Institutional Sales, as well as providing product expertise for client meetings. The role takes a lead in presenting to current and prospective clients of BPSS. The role is vital in assisting our sales and marketing efforts. The role is expected to continually generate creative ideas to help grow the business.

The role must build strong relationships and credibility with operational teams to attain a comprehensive knowledge of the products and how they are run on BAU mode to propose enhancements and process optimization with a specific focus on servicing the data. Based on their expertise, the role is leveraged by and interacts with multiple departments. The role will require engagement with a broad cross section of the organisation - senior management, client sector management, relationship management, service delivery & sales. Effective external engagement with senior level clients & prospects is essential in order to fully understand the products, and then design innovative value adding solutions which solve client problems.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Technical Leadership**:

- Responsible for the design & development of data and analytics offerings and associated services within the best practice product framework of IADS to meet institutional client requirements

Work with the IADS management community to identify and translate market and client trends into scalable data solutions, with a key focus on adding value to the BPSS p/l

Ensure that data solutions are designed with a best practice Target Operating Model, working with Heads of Client Service and Delivery

Translate institutional client requirements for advanced data services and solutions into functional specifications, and champion the end to end rollout

**Product Management**:

- In conjunction with IT, align the Investment Analytics & Data Services product architecture and design to the IT architectural blueprint, with a key focus on scalability and maximising cost efficiencies

Design and maintain global service definition documentation and relevant elements of sales collateral for the product (Standard SLD, Product Description in marketing catalogue, story boards, standard scope of services documents, ‘demo’ environments and scripts )

Roll-out of new products, features, enhancements for Australasian clients from a global development roadmap

Participate to Investment Analytics & Data Services product governance (monthly calls, regular reporting, seminars )

**Sales and Business Development Support**:

- Work closely with the Sales and Business Development team on various client pitches, RFPs, due diligence meetings and other discussions / negotiations

Engage with top clients on product proposition / requirements and take feedback as input into product development

Provide support for client on-boarding, where required, from a product perspective (e.g. operating model design, solutions to bespoke requirements etc.)

Support new business proposals: approving clients, price, terms, se