Associate Product Strategist

About Team:

Fundamental Equities sits within BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group (PMG), which encompasses Fundamental and Systematic investing across Fixed Income, Equities and Multi-Asset Strategies. The Fundamental Equities business is a key division at BlackRock with over $228bn of assets under management, across 70+ strategies and over 240+ investment professionals. The Fundamental Equity teams (FE) use traditional analytics to pick stocks and assemble coherent, deliberate and diversified portfolios. Through cutting edge technology, sophisticated models and embedded research, our investment management approach provides superior performance for our clients and is an important part of the BlackRock brand.

About the Global, UK & Emerging Companies Team:

The Global, UK and Emerging Companies Teams manage ~$42 billion AUM across multiple strategies, serving both institutional and retail clients. The product suite includeslong-only and absolute return portfolios across the market cap spectrum.

About Product Strategy

Product Strategists are a link between portfolio managers and our clients globally. We work closely with portfolio managers and use our deep understanding of products and markets to make the investment process more relatable to our clients.

We are building out a Core Product Strategy team in India to serve the Global, UK & Emerging Companies Investment teams. The Core Product Strategy Team serves as the innovation hub of the team’s production of timely and effective marketing materials, product presentations and response to client inquiries for strategies run on these teams. In addition to servicing existing clients, core product strategists have an opportunity to help support campaigns that drive new AUM for the team, defend existing business with clients, and ultimately achievecommercial objectives for Fundamental Equities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop in-depth knowledge of the equity space and the team’s investment process

• Assist with the production of standard client collateral such as presentations, factsheets, and commentaries

• Assist Portfolio Managers and senior Product Strategists by delivering bespoke materials, performance and competitor analytics

• Help the team’s ownership of internal and external reporting by collating and analysing performance attribution, exposure, AUM and flows data

• Assist with the building and maintenance of database reports (e.g. Morningstar, eVestment, FactSet)

• Support commercial priorities by responding to client and prospect inquiries on the team’s strategies. Collaborate on standard RFI production, DDQs and other client questionnaire completion

• Be part of a global Product Strategy team and collaborate with teams based in Europe & the US

• Assist with innovation projects focused on efficiency gains and generating further insights

You should have:

• 4-6 years' of experiencein financial services with a focus on equity markets

• Excellent communication skills across both verbal and written mediums. Fluency in written and spoken English is essential

• Data management and manipulation skills; understanding of python or R programming language would be helpful, but not essential

• Proficiency in MS Office applications, particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel and ability to develop familiarity and skills using proprietary technology.

• Strong attention to detail, a sense of urgency around deadlines and an ability to multitask

• Proactive, problem-solving attitude supported by the ability to effectively combine outputs from different sources of technology/systems

• Interest in global financial markets; be up to date on macro events and market trends

Your Learning & Development will include:

• Learning about our clients and their investment strategies

• Assisting investors in achieving their investment goals by utilizing BlackRock’s technology

• Collaborating across multiple business functions to learn about the product life cycle

• Participating in market updates about the positioning of our products