Data Products Growth

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What You Can Expect At BBH:

If you join BBH you will find a collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can. You will have direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world. BBH will provide you with opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself-without leaving the firm. We encourage a culture of inclusion that values each employee's unique perspective. We provide a high-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind. Ultimately we want you to have rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage. Our BBH Cares program offers volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others.

Data Products Growth & Innovation - Market Analyst Lead

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently looking for a Market Analyst Lead to help drive revenue growth for our Infomediary Data Solutions (IDS) business. IDS offers a suite of solutions for BBH clients in the data and digital space leveraging our Infomediary platform, which brings together our data management technology and managed services to help clients take full command of their data. Infomediary Data Solutions makes data useable for businesses by designing, building, and maintaining custom master data domains that drive the processes and systems that run our client's operating models.

The Market Analyst Lead will oversee the Markets Analytics pillar within the Data Product Growth & Innovation Team which is responsible for creating data-driven product roadmaps to unlock value and growth. The Market Analytics Pillar acts as our centralized hub of market data and analytics around our product and industry. The manager will be responsible for defining and driving the business analysis, market research, and product development within the team supporting all IDS products.

In this role, the Market Analyst Lead will lead the Market Analytics function, helping to define the strategy and driving all execution in partnership with the other pillars in the product organization. They will lead with a market-centric focus, owning the gathering and publishing of competitive intelligence/market research around the Data Product landscape. The Market Analytics team is responsible for gathering and documenting intelligence critical to shape our business and product roadmaps and maintains a strong awareness and documentation on market trends and emerging technologies. They will manage a team of Market Analysts, proving direction and oversight. The Market Analyst Lead will partner with the Product Management and Product Solutions teams to ensure the appropriate decisions are made related to technology development, partnerships and collaborations with external service providers, and client product requests. The Market Analyst Lead will have experience leading a function and managing people while requiring a deep understanding of the financial services industry and a deep knowledge of industry trends to help influence our product roadmaps.

Overall Responsibilities & Areas of Focus

Leadership & Talent Development

• Focus on the growth and talent development of the Market Analysts to meet the evolving needs of the IDS model and strategic objectives by identifying required capabilities, development platforms and training needs.
• Lead efforts to clearly identify development and career paths within the Market Analytics organization.
• Promote development through mentoring, coaching, and establishing annual goal setting and professional development targets.
• Role model inclusive behaviors that demonstrate commitment to a workplace that values diversity of thought, background, and perspective

Business Analysis

• Conduct business analysis for a variety of client projects and initiatives, focusing on understanding client product needs, analyzing challenges, exploring available technology, and creating innovative solutions using our tools and technologies to address the challenges.
  • Apply industry knowledge and standards to BBH's products and client workflows to ensure the most efficient and effective client solutions.
  • Identify gaps in current products or processes and prepare recommendations for improvements.
  • Lead 'Voice of Client' initiatives, by gathering and understanding client and prospect feedback, preferences and needs, to incorporate into business strategies and decisions that influence our product roadmap.
  • Lead product Analysis initiatives for the Product Management and Product Solutions teams

Market Research

• Provide a comprehensive competitive analysis on major participants in Financial Services data space (Competitors and collaborators) and market research on major industry trends that are influential to our product roadmap.
• Survey and analyze competitive industry landscapes and technology changes.
• Leverage a strong understanding of industry standard messaging and communication protocols which are highly leveraged as part of the IDS BBH business.
• Research, analyze, and summarize information about critical market and regulatory changes in the Financial Service industry that could impact the IDS product roadmap and product suite.
• Use knowledge of industry trends to build and drive critical functionality into our applications.
• Gather and document intelligence on market trends critical to shape our business and product roadmaps (competitors, market peers, regulatory, massage standards, etc.)
• Own the creation of a library of well documented market information available to the IDS community to support product design.
• Strong awareness and documentation on market trends and emerging tech (i.e Cloud, streaming)

Product Development

• Conduct and coordinate business analysis efforts for projects and initiatives. Determine how changing business needs will affect the system, product, process, and solution. Describe the business need and potential solutions in terms that both business and technical teams can understand.
• Occasionally manage projects and/or workstreams and apply project management processes to administer, organize, monitor, and control program/project activities.

Qualifications

• Successfully managed and led a team.
• Strong understanding and experience in the Financial Services Data Product landscape.
• Required proficiency in SQL and data management and reporting tools.
• Global regulatory experience required (T+1, reg reporting, TSRs)
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team-oriented environment.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with clarity and strong influencing skills.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Bachelor's degree preferred with 7+ years' experience directly related to financial services business or technology expertise.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under federal, state or local law.