Data Product Owner – LATAM Commodities Data

Location

Sao Paulo

Business Area

Data

Ref #

10040851

Description & Requirements

Bloomberg runs on data. Our products are fuelled by powerful information. We combine data and context to paint the whole picture for our clients, around the clock – from around the world. In Data, we are responsible for delivering this data, news and analytics through innovative technology – quickly and accurately. We apply problem-solving skills to identify innovative workflow efficiencies, and we implement technology solutions to enhance our systems, products and processes – all while providing platinum customer support to our clients.

Our Team:

In the Commodities Data Team, we’re responsible for on-boarding, modelling and maintaining data that are fit for purpose for our clients. More than 320,000 business leaders rely on the real time financial information available on the Bloomberg Professional Service. Our products run on intelligence and insight provided by the Commodities Team. Our team of analysts provide valuable data and insights to key decision makers within the commodity markets.

We are responsible for the data management of datasets across Power and Gas, Oil, Carbon, Agriculture and Metals. The team provides relevant, timely, and accurate data to empower customers to drive their analysis of commodity markets, both pricing and fundamentals.

The Role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join our team as a Data Product Owner, based in our Sao Paolo office. As the Data Product Owner, you will proactively manage the data strategy for agriculture and biofuels data that feeds into Bloomberg products. You will use your market knowledge and data management skills to maintain and evolve a business plan for this domain across various Bloomberg platforms. You will collaborate with other departments such as Product and Engineering and play a key role in empowering our clients to make well informed business decisions. In addition, you will need to develop a proven understanding of our core workflows and market coverage for both pricing and fundamentals, focusing on the agriculture and biofuels markets. You will also be involved in our data modelling efforts, expanding our semantic data model and improving the discoverability of our content. This is a great opportunity for someone that wants to combine commodity subject-matter-expertise and technical skills to generate premium content for our terminal users.

We’ll trust you to:

• Be able to communicate and prioritize business needs and desired outcomes that guide the strategic direction for the agriculture and biofuels data product.
• Design and coordinate processes to ensure high quality of commodities data.
• Have a strong understanding of data pipelines for the automated ingestion, preparation and storage of data.
• Function as a central resource with other Bloomberg functions (e.g., product, engineering) as the commodities data move through their lifecycle.
• Ensure deliverables are well understood, and in alignment with the overall business goals
• Establish relationships with market participants and ensure client needs and trends are accounted for within our product design
• Strategically advise those involved in the design, modification and evaluation of all phases of a specific commodities data set or group of data sets
• Work with Sales to promote our product to clients and understand and anticipate our client needs in an analytical fashion
• Stay on top of market developments and client needs and use your market knowledge to perform market analysis and generate premium content
• Assist our world-renowned client support help desk with raised client inquiries, and upskill our clients through training

You’ll need to have:

• Strong understanding of the agricultural and biofuels markets
• 3+ years of experience with data analysis using tools such as Python, SQL, Excel
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience working with commodities markets and products
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience in data quality management that ensures data is ready to use, for example, developing proactive data quality strategies, crafting metrics to measure data quality and reporting across organizations
• Strong interest in problem solving particularly to modify and improve processes and workflows
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining technical processes and solutions to business partners and management
• Ability to influence others and lead change by communicating and coordinating with internal/external groups to define project scope and meet project deliverables across the implementation process
• Effective project management skills and ability to prioritize tasks accordingly
• Demonstrated continuous career growth within an organization
• Fluency in both written and spoken English and Portuguese
• Bachelor’s degree or degree-equivalent qualifications

We’d love to see:

• An advanced degree/masters/PhD in a STEM subject of Economics/Finance/Sustainability/Environmental Science
• Experience using a scrum agile process
• Work experience in data product owner/manager role or related fields such data quality, data modelling, and/or data architecture
• Experience working with semantic data structures to model the commodities domain and drive the interoperability across datasets
• Understanding of large-scale, distributed, end-to-end systems.
• Exposure to the Bloomberg Terminal and/or Enterprise data products.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies and project management best practices.
• Understanding of Data Governance and Data Management, supported by industry certifications (e.g. DAMA CDMP, DCAM, etc.).
• Knowledge of Graphing technologies and ontology languages and standards such as OWL, RDF, SKOS, and SHACL.

If this sounds like you:

Apply if you think we’re a good match. We’ll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: https://www.bloomberg.com/professional

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