Hawk Search Executive Recruitment

PROJECT MANAGER - FINANCIAL TRADING CLIENTS - BASED LONDON

Our client is a US headquarted global market data vendor. We are working with one of their business divisions that provides managed service solutions in the financial trading arena. They are building their European business across a client base of financial trading firms.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial individual with strong people skills and a great work ethic to plan, manage and execute delivery of complex projects. In this role you will coordinate with data vendors, telcos, exchanges, trading technology firms and clients. You will manage client project plans and allocate resource to projects. You will work closely with a London based Sales Executive. 

Kindly contact Aine Hall for more information about this project management role.

ETF ANALYST - PAN-EUROPEAN COVERAGE - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation that sells data, research and software to investment managers, IFAs and private investors. We are working with one of their research teams that is expanding its European coverage of exchange traded products.

In this role you will conduct detailed analysis of exchange traded products. You will evaluate the investment merits of these products and write research reports intended to help individual investors and advisors better employ these investments in a portfolio. In this role, you will determine the fair value of exchange-traded products by leveraging in-house equity and fund research tools. You will analyse an exchange-traded product's construction, its role in a portfolio, and its associated fees. You will also create content that discusses investment ideas, such as industry developments in exchange traded funds, exchange traded currencies and exchange traded commodities.

You will have a passion for investing, as well as strong communication and time management skills. You will have at least three years' relevant work experience in an investment research setting (equity research, economic research or investment research). A broad-based investment knowledge is needed, as is the ability to apply equity and fund research tools when analysing exchange-traded products. You will write and speak fluent English as well as either French or German.

For more information about this ETF research role, kindly contact Aine Hall.

CONTENT MANAGER - EQUITY DATA - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation that provides data, research and software across equity, credit and fund markets. They are expanding their products in Europe across all these different business areas. We are working with their equity business division.

We seek a European Content Manager to work with a range of products including data feeds, subscription products and bespoke software applications. The equity content relates to database information that describes company data including fundamentals, share price and trade information, earnings estimates and director information. In this role you will increasing content coverage by overseeing data collection and working with teams in different time zones. You will build out a business across Europe, working with global data collection teams. You will also be a customer advocate and find ways to increase revenue by building out content coverage. This will require liaising with customers as well as product and sales teams. You will have an excellent understanding of how the buy-side and sell-side consume equity data.

For this role, we are looking for candidates with an in-depth understanding of equity data as well as excellent people and project management skills. You will have good knowledge of European and US accounting standards. You will manage many projects simultaneously without comprosing quality. You will have an MBA and ideally CFA designation.

To discuss this role kindly contact Aine Hall.

SENIOR FINANCIAL JOURNALIST - EUROPEAN BANKING SECTOR - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation with a business division that provides market moving intelligence and insight for hedge funds, investment managers, ECM desks and proprietary trading desks. We are working with their banking business division that breaks news around European banking corporations as well as the EC regulatory framework in which they operate.

We seek a senior financial journalist with a track record of breaking news on companies in the banking sector. You will do this by analysing the financials of the organisations and providing insightful coverage. You will scoop high profile M&A deals and corporate events. You will also tap into your excellent network of contacts to break stories. You will follow deals from rumour through to execution writing a combination of shorter market moving pieces as well as longer insightful coverage.

Salary will be commensurate with experience with an excellent benefits package.

To discuss this role, kindly contact Aine Hall.

GENERAL MANAGER - EMERGING MARKETS MACRO RESEARCH - BASED SINGAPORE

Our client is a high-growth US headquartered corporation that provides data, macro research and consultancy to senior executives responsible for their organisation's emerging markets strategy. They collaborate with senior executives at global organisations to offer solutions to their most pressing challenges and opportunities within emerging markets. 

As a result of successful expansion and expected future growth, we seek to hire a Vice President of Asia Pacific (VP APAC) to lead and grow a team of sales professionals and oversee all commercial operations in the region.  

You will have commercial responsibility for all new sales and clients under management in the Asia Pacific region. You will have strong leadership, commercial, intra-personal, communication and business analytic skills. You will inspire and motivate teams to work well across multiple departments globally and effectively represent our client as the most senior representative in the region.

Strong performers are rewarded exceptionally well with excellent basic salary, performance related bonus and equity participation.

Contact Aine Hall for more information about this leadership role.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER - M&A - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation with offices in Europe, America and Asia. They sell data and software solutions across debt capital markets, equity capital markets, loan syndication and M&A. Their clients are investment banks. We are working with their M&A business division.

We seek an M&A Business Development Manager. This is a commercial role where you will identify, evaluate and promote new product opportunities across our client's M&A business division. You will regularly meet with clients and prospects to understand their current and future plans and ensure that products adapt in line with customer demands. You will bring this intelligence into the oprganisation in order to devise strategies for our client's revenue growth. You will work closely with sales teams to help them sell new products and understand market trends. You will also collaborate closely with product teams in order to adapt current products or build new solutions.

You will have an in-depth knowledge of M&A data products as well as very good customer facing skills. You will have excellent project management skills as well as strong commercial awareness.

Kindly contact Aine Hall to discuss this business development role.

SALES MANAGER - COMMODITIES PRICING, NEWS AND RESEARCH - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation that sells pricing, news and research for commodities markets. Their products are used by investment banks, investment managers and corporations in order to make trading decisions (front-office) as well as to confirm post-trade actions (middle- and back-office). Their markets include coal, freight, gas, metals, oil, power and transportation. The products are sold direct via feeds or through third party firms such as Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg.

We seek a Sales Manager to manage a team and to have a personal sales quota. You will work with the team to sell the solutions on a site license basis across all areas of an organisation. You will also personally manage a group of major accounts.

You will have a background of selling market data products to financial firms. You will manage a UK sales team and therefore sales management experience is essential. Ideally you will have experience of commodities products. You will understand how investment banks are structured and will be selling direct to the business and end users.

Kindly contact Aine Hall for more information about this sales management role.

MARKETING MANAGER - TECHNOLOGY & INFORMATION - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation that sells data, online information and software solutions to many business sectors. Their products allow end users to carry out simple research tasks right through to sophisticated manipulation of data and charting.

We seek a Marketing Manager to manage a small marketing team across one business segment. This role reports to a regional Marketing Director. You will plan and execute marketing strategies in line with the company's business goals and you will manage campaigns across multiple products. You will devise strategies to support sales campaigns to attract new customers. You will also devise tactical marketing plans to add value to existing paying subscribers.

You will have excellent B2B marketing experience in any industry and you will have worked across all elements of the marketing mix. You will manage a small team and will be able to delegate work as well as lead by example. Management experience is essential in order to be considered for this role. You will also be hands on and directly manage your own projects.

Kindly contact Aine Hall for more information about this Marketing Manager role.

INSTITUTIONAL EQUITY SALES - PRIMARY RESEARCH - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation that sells customised primary research solutions to investment managers, hedge funds and private equity firms. Their sector-specific research is used by Chief Investment Officers, Heads of Research and Portfolio Managers to gather market intelligence that is relevant to their investments. This allows them to make decisions about their portfolios. It also means that these investment firms can provide unique market insight to their investors.

We seek sales executives with institutional equity research sales experience to bring on board new clients and build their usage of the service. You will have excellent buy-side contacts as well as good closing skills. We are looking for new business sales skills as well as strong relationship management skills. The role will be based in our client's London office.

Salary will be commensurate with expereince.

For more information about this sales role, kindly contact Aine Hall.

SENIOR SALES - PROXY VOTING/CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SERVICES - BASED LONDON

Our client is a global corporation with offices in the US, Asia and Europe. They have many business lines within the financial markets. We are working with their corporate governance business in London.

We seek a Sales Executive to increase revenues of corporate governance solutions to asset managers, pension funds and custodian banks. You will sell to dedicated corporate governance teams at tier one buy-side firms. You will have a new business sales target as well as a renewal target.

We are interested to speak with candidates who have sales experience in any one of these fields of expertise working for:

Custody Firms: you will have an excellent network of contacts amongst asset managers and pension funds.

Cash Equity Sales: you will be a pro-active sales hunter with good buy-side contacts.

Broker/Dealers: you will be a pro-active sales hunter.

Proxy Solicitors: you will have excellent domain expertise.

The basic salary is commensurate with experience and there is a competitive commission plan in place.

For more information about this role, kindly contact Aine Hall.