Senior Manager/AVP - Asset Management - Market Intelligence and Insights

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Key Responsibilities:

• Drive high quality business and market intel to support strategic decision making for the senior business executives. Deliver funds, sector and market analysis and recommendation to various stakeholders in the Product, Distribution, and Investment areas.
• Drive the production of regular reporting outputs, focusing on accuracy, timeliness and meaningful insights.
• Deliver regular reporting including peer group analysis and Executive Committee updates for M&G wholesale public funds, while fulfilling bespoke market insight requests from various business areas.
• Assist in delivering thematic research by analysing major industry and investor trends.
• Ensure MI inputs are embedded into key business discussions and planning materials to support informed decisions.
• Manage senior stakeholders’ expectations and service their requests with high quality analysis and on time delivery.
• Contribute to forward‑looking market, sector and fund analysis.
• Support continuous improvement in MI processes, reporting efficiency and use of automation and visualisation.
• Support and contribute to team automation initiatives to improve efficiency and enable Sales teams to self-serve fund comparison request.
• Contribute to the strategic projects of Asset Management strategy and support strategic business plan of Investment business as part of the Distribution function in M&G.
• Manage compelling deadlines, where necessary, to ensure commentaries are produced in a timely and accurate manner.

Key Accountabilities:

• Accountable for delivering high quality commentaries, using specialist knowledge and subject matter expertise
• Accountable for providing market and industry context for M&G’s three year business planning.
• Apply judgement to deliver outcomes, ensuring meeting of business deadlines
• Manage conflicts that may impact delivery
• Identify and anticipate need for changes to continuously improve quality and efficiency of output
• Liaise with external providers such as Broadridge, Morningstar, and IA to handle queries and maintain organisational data accuracy

Key Stakeholder Management

Internal

• Head of Wholesale Market Intelligence
• Director of Strategy & Market Intelligence
• Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Asset Management
• Stakeholders across business areas but not limited to Product, Distribution, Investment teams
• Head of Client Operations - Asset Management

External

• Not applicable

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Educational Qualification

Knowledge & Skills :

• Extensive experience in market intelligence, competitive analysis or related roles within asset management.
• Good understanding of asset management products, distribution channels and competitor dynamics.
• Strong ability to synthesise complex, multi-source data into clear, commercially relevant insight.
• Experience using Morningstar Direct database
• Working knowledge of Broadridge/IA Echoweb/ eVestment database is desirable
• Knowledge of data visualisation platforms such as Microsoft Power BI
• Team management and project management experience
• Senior stakeholders management
• Good planning and prioritising skills
• Committed to achieving results independently and to deliver on time
• Strong verbal as well as written communication skills
• Rigorous attention to detail, planning and organisation skills
• Able to work both individually and in a collegiate and collaborative manner

Experience:

• 8-10+ years’ experience in Asset Management/ Wealth Management industry
• Experience in working with senior leaders and investment professionals across global teams

Educational Qualification:

• Post Graduate preferably with degree in Commerce/Business Administration specialised in Finance/Marketing/Operations
• Masters in Finance preferred

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.