Assistant Manager - Product - Asset Management Firm

Assistant Manager - Product - AMC

JOB INTENT : The position manages strategic and business decisions related to product or product group creation, development, positioning and marketing. Provides functional, technical or process leadership. The Product Manager job responsibilities are as follows:

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Share product related data internal & external stakeholders & regulators on daily/Weekly/Monthly/Half yearly/Annual basis

- Identifying product gaps, developing business case, product plan, product definition and specifications, product launch and life cycle management activities.

- Monitoring problem areas; defining or approving planned product enhancements.

- Participating in quality assessment and improvement processes.

- Achieve the targets as set by your reporting Manager which would change from time to time and would be communicated to you as decided by the Management

- Gathering marketplace requirements and setting direction for future product evolution

- Analyse Product performance, Product competitiveness, and product trends in the marketplace and develops strategies for assigned brand based on research and analysis.

- Works with sales teams to identify and implement appropriate sales strategies.

- Liaison with third party like Index providers, Rating agencies, regulators, etc for product related services.

- Undertake bill processing for product related jobs independently.

- Independently handle work on marketing collaterals related to products.

- Proficient in software like ICRA MF online, Bloomberg, Reuters will be an add on.

- Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.

- Communicating investment and Marketing strategies internally and externally closely liaising with Investment and Marketing teams.

- Work in close co-ordination with Compliance and Legal for approval of all materials.

- Oversee the creation of all marketing material including factsheets, one pagers, presentations, other publicity material and content for Investment Education.

- Act as a resource to internal and external clients with regard to all marketing (Factsheets, one pagers, presentation etc.), Investor Education and regulatory material (KIM, SID, Addendums, Rules and regulations etc.)

Functional Competency Elements :

- MF Product Knowledge

- Knowledge of mutual fund products and their application, along with knowledge of different types of schemes and of scheme guidelines by AMFI, SEBI etc

- Knowledge of different instruments such as government bonds, t-bills etc and their average yields

- Ability to Innovate products.

- Ability to comprehend the market pulse, understand saleability of MF products, competitive intelligence

- Understanding of Regulations

- Basic knowledge of applicable laws and regulatory requirements for mutual funds products as per SEBI, AMFI and of general accounting standards.

- Knowledge of the regulatory impact on business products, risks associated along with an knowledge of associated governance, controls and standard operating procedures

- Correlation between Investments and product saleability

- Ability to understand the correlation and derive new products from market knowhow and understanding investment fundamentals which would be required to manage the product.

- Knowledge of excel, word and PowerPoint

- Proficient in excel, word and PowerPoint