Product Manager - Derivatives

About Quoreka

Quoreka has a formidable presence in the vendor solutions market for metals, energy, and agriculture. Catering a wide range of asset classes, our company utilizes a cloud-based suite of CTRM and ETRM solutions enhanced by AI/ML technology, alongside Supply Chain Management and E-Sourcing products. Today, we boast of extensive CTRM/ETRM expertise across softs, ags, fertilizers/chemicals, liquids, precious metals, concentrates, energy and much more.

Quoreka is able to provide the industry with a very unique offering that meets the growing demands of commodity traders, energy merchants’ miners, industrials to producers providing best-in-class functionality, user experience, technology and services. Our product roadmap is innovation-centric, focusing on AI and delivering strong product value propositions with clear short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals. Quoreka has over 200 employees and offices across the UK, India, Australia, Switzerland and Canada, serving :100 customers globally across multiple commodity segments.

Job Location: Bengaluru (India)

Position: Product Manager - Physical Metal Trading

The Product Manager - Derivatives - will be part of Quoreka’s Product Management team and will be part of a highly functioning, dynamic team. This person will be responsible for defining product strategy and translating market requirements into world class products working with customers, product development, internal clients and project teams in the organization.

They will be responsible for working with Product Management team, Marketing team and Pre-Sales team to understand the market needs and involve in product roadmap evaluation along with Product Management team.

Experience and Skillsets:

Must Haves

• Should have strong understanding and experience of the commodity derivatives market.
• 10+ years of experience in Commodity Derivatives software
• In-depth understanding of the different trade types and operational workflow of OTC and listed commodity derivatives
• Understanding of derivative price curve construction and MTM, option pricing and structured products
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks, trade reporting, clearing requirements, margin & collateral management, Risk analytics (VaR, exposure management)
• Experience in working with teams in Software Development, Quality Assurance, Consulting and Product Support.
• A friendly person with extraordinary organizational and leadership skills
• Have strong presentation and communication skills
• Ability to think creatively and solve problems
  
  
  

Good to Have

• Experience with any current Quoreka systems
• Knowledge of CTRM/ETRM derivative systems
• SQL and scripting / reporting tools like PowerQuery
• Some understanding of physical commodity trading/systems would also be useful
• Familiarity in agile development framework will be preferable.
  
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage the product roadmap and strategy and coordinate the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers and prospects and serve as primary product expert and evangelist.
• Become expert in our product, understanding how it works - and why it works as it does
• Have strong solution skills in translating customer needs to product functionality.
• Meet regularly with key customers and customer-facing teams to collect and analyze user feedback to shape new product ideas and user requirements.
• Implement usage tracking and analyze patterns to validate new feature requirement.
• Work with leadership team in planning the product roadmap.
• Convert ideas to prototypes and demonstrate them to the key partners.
• Coordinate with engineering team to plan and deliver features on time.
• Represent company in product or domain specific conferences and events.
• Act as owner for the success of your product and authority on product certification post beta testing.
• Develop hands-on, in-depth knowledge of competitive products and maintain functional analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses.
• Manage 3rd party relationships with technology partners and solutions providers