Location
Paternoster Square, London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Senior Manager / Director, Trading – Emerging & Frontier Markets is responsible for defining and delivering the Trading strategy across Emerging and Frontier Markets (EFM), focusing on proposition leadership, market development, and revenue growth. This role owns key Trading propositions including Auctions, Fixed Income Advanced Dealing, and FICC strategy, acting as a senior advocate for the Trading business with clients, industry bodies, and regulators. The role is accountable for product enablement, operational readiness, and governance approvals required for market launches, ensuring compliance with internal policies and regulatory frameworks to achieve “right to operate” and successful go-to-market execution.

The successful candidate will lead end-to-end Trading propositions across EFM, from strategy definition, client validation, and product delivery. Responsibilities include owning product enablement, readiness, and launch governance, coordinating internal approvals, risk, compliance, and regulatory sign-offs to ensure successful market entry and operational readiness. The role defines and drives regional product, content, and feature roadmaps aligned to client needs, market structure, regulatory considerations, and commercial objectives.

Coordination of cross-functional teams (Product, Technology, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Sales) to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of Trading initiatives, including prioritisation and feature trade-offs, is essential. Leveraging client feedback and market insight to increase adoption, retention, and recurring usage is a key focus. The role supports business planning, investment prioritisation, and partnership decisions, including build-versus-buy assessments, and partners with Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success Management teams to support client engagement, retention, and growth initiatives. Clear, structured strategy updates and progress reporting to senior management and governance forums are required.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider dedicated to driving financial stability, empowering economies, and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. The organisation values integrity, partnership, excellence, and change, fostering an inclusive culture where everyone can grow, develop, and fulfil their potential.

Experience
Significant experience of 15+ years in EFM Trading markets, including FX, Fixed Income, and/or Commodities. Strong understanding of Emerging and Frontier Market structures, regulation, infrastructure, and client behaviour. Proven track record as a business builder with success in driving market development and adoption across multi-jurisdictional environments. Demonstrated ability to take full ownership of outcomes and deliver measurable commercial impact.

About you
Strategic thinker with a value proposition mindset focused on end-to-end execution. Ability to anticipate market trends, identify and prioritise opportunities, and define, validate, and deliver propositions from strategy and client engagement through to execution and commercialisation, generating sustainable long-term value. Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate clear, logical strategies and progress updates to senior leadership, influence alignment across teams, and represent the business with credibility and confidence.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications and extensive industry experience preferred. A strong commercial acumen and leadership capability are essential to succeed in this role.