Team Leader - Macro Economics Data

Location: London

Business Area: Data

Reference #: 10048749

Overview: Bloomberg runs on data. Our products are fueled by powerful information. We combine data and context to paint the whole picture for our clients, around the clock – from across the world. In Data, we deliver this data, news and analytics through innovative technology – quickly and accurately. We apply problem‑solving skills to identify innovative workflow efficiencies, and implement technology solutions to enhance our systems, products and processes.

The Economics Data Team is responsible for onboarding, analyzing, and supplying high‑quality economic content that supports client decision‑making. We provide trusted, sought‑after economic data that is normalized across countries and regions. Business leaders rely on the real‑time financial information available on the Bloomberg Professional Service, and the intelligence and insight produced by the Economics team power many of these products. Our analysts influence decisions and markets every day, and we continue to grow.

The Economics Data team manages both traditional and alternative economic time series, forecasts, and surveys. We deliver relevant, timely, and accurate data that enables clients to analyze global economies with confidence. Our focus is on making economic content more discoverable and timely, generating data‑driven insights, and delivering outstanding customer service.

Team Leader Role: The Economics Data team is seeking a dedicated Team Leader to lead and develop a hard‑working group of economic analysts, responsible for data onboarding and analysis across the EMEA markets. In this role, you will partner closely with clients and key collaborators to understand evolving needs and set proactive strategies for our economic coverage – particularly across core economic concepts, high‑frequency indicators, and emerging markets.

From a technical perspective, you will lead efforts to research and onboard new datasets that expand and strengthen our product coverage, with a focus on data acquisition and semantic data modelling. Your team will transform complex datasets and workflows into high‑quality financial and economic data products that are indispensable to our users. This role requires extensive collaboration with global colleagues and partners across the organisation, including Business Managers, News, Bloomberg Intelligence and Economists, Sales & Analytics, Data Governance, and Engineering.

The Economics Data team is also undergoing a significant transformation toward an automation‑first operating model, with the goal of achieving Straight‑Through Processing across how we acquire, curate, semantically model, and deliver data to clients. In an era defined by AI and rapidly growing data demands, the ability to scale data coverage through automation is critical to our success. As Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in advocating and driving this change – embedding automation into workflows, enabling scale, and guiding your team through this evolution.

What you’ll do:

• Apply strong economic domain expertise to source, evaluate, and analyse complex datasets, ensuring timely, high‑quality economic insights for clients while staying current on relevant market trends and developments.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high‑performing team of analysts who operate as subject‑matter experts, capable of delivering time‑sensitive data through scalable, automation‑enabled workflows, strong analytical judgement, and effective project execution.
• Partner closely with cross‑functional teams—including Economists, Product, Sales, News, Data Governance, and Engineering—to continuously improve economic data products, databases, and terminal functionality.
• Set and implement the team’s strategy for data onboarding at scale, embedding automation‑first principles by developing data modelling, ETL, and software‑adjacent skills within the team, in close collaboration with Data Engineering.
• Own risk management across the full data life‑cycle, from data sourcing and onboarding through modelling, publication, change management, and deprecation, proactively identifying and mitigating data quality, operational, regulatory, and client‑impact risks.
• Design and enforce robust processes, standards, and controls that ensure high data quality, operational resilience, and an exceptional level of client service, while progressively reducing manual intervention, life‑cycle risk, and preventable issues.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of formal people leadership experience, or strong informal leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Economics or Finance, or related business / STEM field.
• Experience working with Economic time series or other large datasets, be able to quantify the trends impacting the industry, and provide information that can aid commercial decisions.
• Experience working with Python including using AI assistants like GitHub Copilot.
• Vision to align your team’s goals around providing outstanding service to Business and other internal/external clients, and the ability to implement a business and people strategy which delivers on that vision.
• Excellent problem‑solving and communication skills, allowing you to solve and clearly communicate business needs while advocating on behalf of your team.
• Proven ability to establish strong credibility and build influential relationships with multiple internal and external clients and partners.
• Understanding and application of data quality methodologies.
• Creative and flexible approach to problem solving, aided by strong data analysis skills.

Preferred:

• Experience or knowledge in the Bloomberg terminal, and/or Bloomberg Data workflows.
• Experience or strong curiosity about data modeling in addition to strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, SQL experience, and coding experience.
• Experience using data visualization tools.