Content Analyst, Fixed Income & Commodities | Data Sourcing & Strategy
Platform Solutions delivers a suite of resources to our investment professionals, including data, research, and corporate access. Within Platform Solutions, Content Solutions is Millennium’s team of experts on alternative data, independent research, and investment tools, and is seeking to add a dynamic and motivated Content Analyst.
As a Content Analyst, you will research, discover, and vet data and research products to formulate a view on their potential value to our investment professionals. You will be the firm’s subject matter expert on content for a particular investment strategy and advise investment professionals, business managers, and colleagues on the space. You will develop 1x1 relationships with our investment professionals in order to understand their unique strategy and recommend the highest potential products for their evaluation and use. You will develop strategic relationships with content providers and negotiate for best-in-class pricing and access on behalf of the firm. You will collaborate with our data scientists, technologists, and other internal counterparts to deliver high-value content to our investment professionals in novel ways. You will help drive the constant evolution of Platform Solutions as the firm grows, contributing innovative ideas on delivering resources to our investment professionals at scale.
Responsibilities:
1. Act as the firm’s expert on alternative data, independent research, and investment tools relevant to the strategy you cover, with deep knowledge of the providers, products, and industry trends
2. Perform research on content relevant to your strategy in order to stay well-informed of changes to known products and discover new products not yet in use at the firm
3. Build and maintain detailed documentation on the providers and products in your coverage
4. Develop a view on the strengths, weaknesses, and potential value of each product, including how it compares to other available content
5. Author and publish proprietary commentary on products under your coverage to our investment professionals in order to inform and educate them on the landscape and recommend high-value products
6. Build 1x1 relationships with investment professionals within the strategy you cover and understand their unique investment process and use of content
7. Advise investment professionals within the strategy you cover on available content that suits their strategy and perform bespoke research on their behalf as needed
8. Onboard new investment professionals to the platform and market the platform to prospective IPs
9. Establish strategic relationships with new content providers and in turn, generate unique opportunities to access content for our investment professionals
10. Negotiate commercial and business terms with new content providers to achieve the best pricing and position for scale
11. Collaborate with other Content Analysts and key internal counterparts, including business management, data science and engineering, legal, compliance, and operations
12. Manage high volumes of work across a diverse set of functions and on behalf of various investment professionals with competing priorities, requiring one to effectively communicate expectations with internal and external counterparts, and execute quickly and efficiently
13. Leverage and contribute to the development of internal technology in order to improve workflows and the investment professionals’ experience
Qualifications/Skills Required:
14. 5+ years professional experience in finance, data, and/or research
15. Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
16. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
17. Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
18. Intellectually curious and creative, seeking constant challenge and improvement
19. Resourceful and ability to work independently as well as collaboratively with a team
20. Excellent organization and time management skills to manage high volumes of work
21. Ability to handle pressure and energized by high performance standards
22. Familiarity with discretionary and systematic investment processes and the application of data
23. Background in fixed income and/or commodities preferred