Senior Associate, Index Partnerships in City of London

Senior Associate, Index Partnerships role at LSEG

LSEG City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Our Team

Index Partnerships sits within the Custom Solutions & Alternatives product vertical, a multidisciplinary business unit focused on leveraging all product capabilities within LSEG to serve the investment community on the Buy-side and Sell-side. Comprised of experts ranging from the commercially aligned to the quantitative and technical, the team has four main areas of product focus:

• Index Partnerships – including co‑branded offerings such as FTSE EPRA Nareit & FTSE TPI.
• Exchange Listed – sophisticated index solutions, futures & options with key exchange partners.
• Engineered & Structured – such as custom overlays and defined outcomes.
• Alternatives – building our capabilities in Real Assets, Private Equity & Debt.

The Role

The role will have exposure to all four product areas listed above, with a focus on the Index Partnerships. The candidate will engage in a broad range of initiatives, including data analysis, product life‑cycle management, marketing, and will work closely with other product verticals within FTSE Russell, leveraging all capabilities across Equity, FICC and Sustainable Investment.

What We Offer You

• An opportunity to play a key role in our expansion to new capabilities, while also deepening relationships and innovating with strategic partners.
• Working relationships that will expand your network to senior leaders in the industry.
• A position to work and learn alongside a highly skilled and motivated team, with future opportunities to become autonomous and develop your own content.

Your Responsibilities

• Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly connecting with external stakeholders via client and partner meetings and industry events, facilitating meetings with organisational leadership and preparing supporting analysis and presentations.
• Innovation: Translating new capabilities established by Index Partnership franchises, injecting growth potential into mature product offerings.
• Strategy: Assessing and researching the market environment, industry trends and competitive developments to inform business strategy and propose new index partnerships.
• Product Launch Support: Drafting index ground rules and similar design documentation, including complex solutions.
• Data Analysis & Research: Organising, transforming and visualising data for quantitative analysis and research outputs; running index simulations within FTSE Russell’s research environment.
• Marketing: Promoting the partnership offering and creating narratives around product innovations with supporting documentation.
• Project Management: Coordinating with stakeholders on new product development and go‑to‑market planning, scoping requirements, managing schedules and prioritising deliverables.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• Education: Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Data/Computer Science, Engineering or other quantitative disciplines.
• Analytical & Technical Skills: Comfortable working with large data sets, transforming and visualising data for diverse stakeholders.
• Communication Skills: Ability to deploy professional acumen with senior stakeholders; excellent people skills to support engagements across the business.
• Personal Approach: Curious and ambitious mindset, appetite to learn and challenge personal standards regularly.

LSEG Culture & Support

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, do things and help people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity, break down barriers, encourage teamwork and enable rapid development of solutions that make a difference. LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil their potential with meaningful careers.

We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, disability, or any other protected basis. We can accommodate applicants’ religious practices and beliefs, and mental health or physical disability needs.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Other

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting, Financial Services