Product Strategy Manager

Business Area:   Product Strategy

Location:             London 

Reporting to:      Global Head of Product Strategy

Job title:               Product Strategy Manager

Who we’re looking for

A highly driven, dynamic individual with a strong desire to understand markets and the asset management industry, and who believes in the power of data driven decisions. This role is responsible for providing market intelligence and insight to inform thinking within the Product Strategy team, and ultimately to help guide strategic decision-making across the business. 

This individual should be passionate about analysing and understanding market trends and competitive dynamics and have skills to work within large data sets in order to unlock valuable product and client insights. 

About Schroders

We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 5,000 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

The Product Strategy team sits within the overall Product division and is responsible for shaping the firm’s product offering and driving innovation to ensure alignment with client needs and the anticipated investment landscape. It is responsible for setting the overall product strategy, defining the product range, identifying opportunities, and working closely with the Investment and Distribution divisions to evolve our strategies and help focus commercial activity. The team leads strategic product initiatives for the firm, owning the process from idea through to execution, working closely with the Product Development and Governance teams to own the Product Lifecycle. 

What you’ll do

• Analyse client needs, competitive dynamics & the investment context—in collaboration with Distribution, Product, and Investment colleagues—to define our product and solutions range

• Proactively provide market intelligence and trends 

• Ensure Schroders' product set is optimised to meet evolving client demand and stay competitive and relevant against the investment landscape

• Analyse Schroders' investment product offerings and compare to competing products to support favourable positioning strategies

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Relevant experience in financial services or management consulting, ideally in a client-facing, front-office team

• Direct knowledge of the asset management industry from a strategic perspective preferred but not essential

• Strong data analysis, and presentation skills

• Structured approach to solving problems using a data-driven approach and a variety of sources to refine and validate ideas

• Proactive team player with a strong commitment to high standards and getting the job done

• Excellent interpersonal skills, an ability to establish and maintain productive, cooperative working relationships, and the presence to effectively engage and influence stakeholders

What you’ll be like

• Great at working both independently and with other people, sharing and communicating decisions

• Highly curious and self-motivated 

• A critical thinker who's able to look at things from different angles

• Strong technical knowledge on market trends and competitor dynamics

• Great at unpicking a problem, from start to end, owning and delivering the solution

• Comfortable expressing a point of view 

• Able to work well under pressure, on several priorities at once, and with tight deadlines

We recognise potential, whoever you are
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought facilitated by an inclusive culture will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer: you are welcome here regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background or any other protected characteristics