product manager

Profile

The Issuer Services team sits within the Capital Markets team of the London Stock Exchange. The team's mandate is to build and maintain relationships with issuers and be a revenue generating centre through the Issuer Services platform and other services: www.lsegissuerservices.com

Our core clients are the Investor Relations teams and the c-suite within our Issuers and Pre-IPO companies. We aim to offer them a range of products and services through the platform, that is split across five broad areas:

1. Company profile page on londonstockexchange.com
2. Data - pricing / trading data
3. Marketplace - LSE and third party service providers presented to issuers
4. Spark - Thought leadership content and events
5. SparkLive - Company results presentations and livestreams

3,4,5 above are directly revenue generating. 1 and 2 provide insights and tools to the issuers that are valuable and drive adoption of the platform. Should the Refinitiv transaction successfully close, we anticipate that there will be an opportunity to share more value added data with our issuers through the platform.

SparkLive

Through SparkLive (https://spark?channel=sparklive) we give our issuers and pre-IPO companies the opportunity to livestream and host on demand their corporate presentations including capital markets days, results presentations, AGMs and roadshows in the public domain and also through a private link. We distribute the livestreams through SparkLive and also through londonstockexchange.com to capitalise on our distribution capabilities. We also anticipate that there will be the opportunity to leverage Refinitiv distribution through Eikon and other platforms.

We currently offer functionality through the platform such as Q&A, speaker bios, description, save the date etc. We rely on third party technology providers to provide the livestreaming embed. Our USP is our trusted brand and our distribution capabilities. We launched SparkLive in 2020 and we have seen some good initial traction with clients. We believe that there is significant scope for growth.

The Role

We are recruiting for an individual to be a manager of the SparkLive product and take it to the next level of maturity. The candidate will report to Tom Hinton (Head of Issuer Services). The successful candidate will be expected to develop the SparkLive product to encompass a full range of functionality in the public market and pre-IPO space. This will include developing roadshow and other functionality. The candidate will be expected to take responsibility for the following:

• Continue to develop the strategy for SparkLive
• Develop the product with ever evolving functionality
• Work with legal, reg and compliance to develop appropriate policies, contracts and terms of use
• Work closely with the operations and sales teams to develop a seamless client experience
• Work with external suppliers and onboard them appropriately
• Work closely with marketing and comms to develop a marketing strategy
• Run the budget and monitor appropriate KPIs
• Develop and maintain relationships with issuers and pre-ipo companies

In relation to the relationship management of issuers, the candidate would be expected to proactively engage with issuers every day to ensure we are developing the platform in line with their needs and feedback. It is also important that the candidate is able to monitor the issuers use of the platform and spot cross selling opportunities as they arise.

Key Behaviours

• Working experience
  • Experience in corporate access / ECM
  • Experience in advising corporate communication with investors
  • Experience with both private and public companies
  • Experience in developing new products would be helpful
  • A good network across issuers, advisors and intermediaries is also important

• Education
  • Ideally degree level, but track record of work experience is more important
• IT Skills
  • Competent on ppt / excel / word

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) is a diversified international market infrastructure and capital markets business sitting at the heart of the world's financial community. The Group can trace its history back to 1698.

The Group operates a broad range of international equity, bond and derivatives markets, including London Stock Exchange; Borsa Italiana; MTS, Europe's leading fixed income market; and Turquoise, a pan-European equities MTF. It is also home to one of the world's leading growth markets for SMEs, AIM. Through its platforms, the Group offers international business and investors unrivalled access to Europe's capital markets.

Post trade and risk management services are a significant part of the Group's business operations. In addition to majority ownership of multi-asset global CCP operator, LCH Group, LSEG operates CC&G, the Italian clearing house; Monte Titoli, the T2S-ready European settlement business; and globeSettle, the Group's newly established CSD based in Luxembourg.

The Group is a global leader in indexing and analytic solutions. FTSE Russell offers thousands of indexes that measure and benchmark markets around the world. The Group also provides customers with an extensive range of real time and reference data products, including SEDOL, UnaVista, and RNS.

London Stock Exchange Group is a leading developer of high performance trading platforms and capital markets software for customers around the world. In addition to the Group's own markets, over 35 other organisations and exchanges use the Group's MillenniumIT trading, surveillance and post trade technology.

Headquartered in London, with significant operations in North America, Italy, France and Sri Lanka, the Group employs approximately 4,700 people.