You will join the EMEA ETF Development team which sits within BGM's Platform & Strategy pillar, with a primary focus on the market design, trading ecosystem, and liquidity architecture that underpin ETF growth. The team works at the intersection of product design, market structure, and regulation to ensure ETFs can be efficiently launched, traded, and scaled across diverse European markets.

Why is your role important?

This is an opportunity to join an exciting segment within the asset management industry! It offers phenomenal exposure for someone looking to deepen their knowledge and contribute to the evolution of the ETF ecosystem at BlackRock. ETFs are a core growth engine for BlackRock, with continued expansion into more complex exposures, new asset classes, and evolving trading models

What will you be doing?

Strategic Platform Development: Lead the design and implementation of scalable ETF products and operating models, supporting both complex and non-complex launches and enhancements across EMEA markets. Partner with trading desks, capital markets teams, and external market participants to enhance ETF market quality and resilience through purposeful product design. Product Innovation: Develop new market entry strategies, support wrapper evolution, and design ETP solutions for complex exposures such as digital assets and derivatives. Contribute to initiatives exploring evolving market practices, including extended trading hours, digital assets, and new settlement or trading models. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with global partners, including Product, Technology, Operations, and Market teams. Team Leadership: Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.

What are we looking for?

Deep understanding of ETF ecosystem, market architecture, and regulatory environment. Hands-on experience in financial markets, digital assets, or equity derivatives preferred. Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex projects. Strong analytical, strategic, and communication skills. Demonstrated ability to innovate, solve problems, and drive operational efficiency. Commitment to BlackRock's culture, principles, and long-term vision.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

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We are seeking a Vice President / Director to join our iShares EMEA Fixed Income Product Strategy team. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving client adoption and commercialising new and existing product ranges across wealth and institutional client segments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive high quality client engagements via positioning the entire iShares FI ETF platform.
• Develop client centric narratives based on differentiated ETF use cases, showcasing how ETFs are being used by different client segments / client types.
• Contribute to the production of high profile thought leadership pieces in growth areas.
• Produce data driven analysis to demonstrate the market quality of iShares FI ETFs based on track record of performance, portfolio management insights as well as ETF trading liquidity dynamics.
• Invest time to gain in depth understanding of Blackrock’s portfolio management investment processes and work alongside the PMs on commonly identified projects.
• Create high quality client materials and product positioning to enable sales teams across both the wealth and institutional channels. Drive initiatives to educate sales on ETF mechanics, use cases and product launches.
• Monitor competitor industry landscape. Keep track of products, performance and flow dynamics of other asset managers across ETFs and mutual funds.
• Work with the broader GPS teams and fixed income partner teams to support new product launches as well as contribute to new product ideas and / or enhancements to existing fund ranges
• Drive scale through efficiencies and automation within the team, particularly around using processing and analysing data

Knowledge/Experience Required:

• Proven track record in a fixed income specialist role, with deep understanding of fixed income markets, portfolio management and trading dynamics.
• Passionate about financial markets with an ability to communicate macro views and their impact in portfolios
• Thorough understanding of the ETF and mutual fund industry trends and client segment dynamics.
• Highly numerate, with analytical capabilities, preferably working with bond and index level analytics
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills to articulate technical concepts, ideas, and processes in a simple and transparent way
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, often under tight deadlines
• Ability to develop trusting relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Strong team player, collaborative and cooperative and solution-oriented approach to tasks
• Disciplined organisation and project management skills. Ambitious work ethic and professional disposition

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including: retirement investment and tools designed to help you in building a sound financial future; access to education reimbursement; comprehensive resources to support your physical health and emotional well-being; family support programs; and Flexible Time Off (FTO) so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock’s hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week. Some business groups may require more time in the office due to their roles and responsibilities. We remain focused on increasing the impactful moments that arise when we work together in person – aligned with our commitment to performance and innovation. As a new joiner, you can count on this hybrid model to accelerate your learning and onboarding experience here at BlackRock.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children’s educations, buying homes and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

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