Head of Sales - Market / Reference Data Solution

Head of Sales – Market / Reference Data Solution

Quant Capital is urgently looking for Senior Sales Manager or Head of Sales to join our high profile client.

Our client is a key player in the fintech100 and well known for its enterprise wide real-time market data and reference data products. They have offices across the globe and are the have the number one product for the buy and sell side space.

This is a brand new Greenfield product within the business that will shape the hosted real-time market data space over the next 10 years. The team is flat with an emphasis on collaboration and relationship based sales. The pipeline of contacts is warm with many inroads already established into tier 1 customers. We are looking to move further into UK buy side clients with emphasis on Asset Managers, Funds and Insurance Businesses

We are looking for profiles with a market / reference / financial data or large financial software platform background who want to develop a business in the UK and Europe. The product is complex but easy to sell and with current changes in regulation and a weak competitor market offers an interesting space to be in.

I am looking for bight sales people who enjoy and understand technology.

Sales Managers must:

• Experience of Market or reference data or software platform solutions on an enterprise scale.
• Drive to create a market changing product
• Excellent sales track record
• Demonstrable track record of being a leader and hard worker.
• Knowledge of financial data and how enterprise wide systems offer advantages.
• Knowledge of financial instruments, trade lifecycle and market data feeds high advantageous (Goldensource, Asset Control, Markit, Quanthouse, Telekurs, Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC or Realtick etc)
• Experience of working on sales projects that implemented data management applications, core banking systems, trading platforms or data products

Knowledge and experience of vendor data service provider feeds, such as Bloomberg, Reuters, Telekurs, MarkIT and IDC is ideal but we are particularly looking for candidates who understand enterprise sales and want a place with fewer limits.

We will consider those who have platform experience and are looking to develop.

My client offers serious progression and both a bonus and commission. You would expect to be returning around £200k personally in the first year dependant on your experience.

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