Product Manager, Product Management Business Development

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Job Description

The Role: Product Manager, Product Management Business Development

The Location: Tokyo, Japan

The Team: Credit & Risk Solutions (C&RS) is part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, dedicated to providing products and services in credit and other risk categories which intersect credit. 

Credit Solutions (CS) is one of the four sub-groups under C&RS, and is fully dedicated to the commercial distribution of proprietary data published by S&P Global Ratings. It distributes credit ratings and related data, analytics and research via direct data feeds and web-based desktop platforms. Products include RatingsXpress, RatingsDirect, and CreditPro.

The Impact: As a member of the Credit Solutions APAC team, the candidate will become the regional expert for the feed products provided by Credit Solutions, with a heavy focus on the technologies and underlying data. The role contributes to the business by executing go-to-market activities, providing technical expertise to support pre and post-sales activities, and holding training sessions to increase product awareness.

What’s in it for you:

• Opportunity to play an important and unique role in supporting the CS APAC business from both a market development perspective, as well as possibly influencing future enhancements of our products
• Exposure through closely working with members of the CS Product Management team around the globe, as well as key members of the C&RS APAC commercial team. 
• Grow and improve your skills by working on enterprise-level products and new technologies.
• Working with a team of highly skilled, ambitious, and result-oriented professionals

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expert on feed products for the APAC region
• Collaborate with global product management colleague to drive the business, with a heavy focus on Japan
• Assist/Collaborate with New Business Sales to support closing deals
• Assist/Collaborate with Relationship Managers and Desktop & Channel Solutions when technical/data expertise is requested by clients
• BAU activities to support the business

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

• Language Proficiency: Japanese (native or fluent), English (business level)
• Understanding of the unique business practices in Japan
• Proficiency in DMBS/SQL
• Strong understanding of REST API
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (esp. Excel and PowerPoint)
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Programming experience, especially using web technologies and REST APIs
• Experience working with financial institution in Japan as a market data vendor

About the Company 

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.

Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.