Product Manager, Securities Trading Team, Equities Permanent

This role requires an individual self-starter contributor, a strong ability to analyse data to formulate insights, a team player. This role holds business development as well as P&L responsibilities.

Core Responsibilities

Manage the Singapore equities market portfolio by formulating tactical and long-term strategic initiatives to grow trading liquidity. Work closely with SGX teams (Markets, Global Sales & Origination, Research & Retail Intermediaries and Data Analytics team) to execute and capture business opportunities.

The ideal candidate should be able to:

• Review market structure trends and articulate policy recommendations to the highest levels of management.

• Develop trading insights regarding the Singapore cash market that caters to different strategies for different client types such as portfolio construction, passive and active trading strategies.

• Develop and drive market maker and liquidity provider programs to bolster activity from key client groups such as active traders in the Singapore cash market.

• Have an understanding of execution metrics, algo and DMA usage in the Asia equity markets as well as client needs across algos and high-touch to ensure that SGX is positioned to deliver this from both market policy and trading infrastructure standpoint

• Generate sales and marketing materials to institutional clients combining both portfolio and execution metrics

• Understand competitive landscape by gathering marketplace information, pricing, and analysing new products & platform features

• Understand market structure and regulation in Asia

• Meet with trading desk clients and prospects to market Singapore cash equities and leverage on relationship to onboard new clients and brokers

Requirements

• Has at least 6-8 years of working experience in the areas of equities execution trading or brokering

• Possess strong business acumen with significant experience in product management / development across various asset classes. Ideally, he / she should also bring new experience in developing innovative, efficient securities and asset service offerings, considering the current state of the market and its market participants.

• Possess an effective balance of strategic vision and tactical experience. He / she should be a self-starter, prepared to initiate necessary internal and external relationships, processes and planning.

• Possess strong multi-level communication and presentation skills and be savvy in building strong business relationships within SGX and across SGX’ market participants and other external stakeholders.

• Possess critical problem-solving skills to validate findings and test hypotheses. He / she should have the ability to prioritise in a complex environment with ambiguous boundaries.

• The candidate is ideally able to use the available information sources independently, and has strong experience in data analysis including utilising tools such SQL,Excel Power Pivot, and Bloomberg.

• Able to multi-task and work under pressure