About
Your Team Responsibilities: The Vice President, Analytics Sales Representative is a senior commercial role responsible for driving revenue growth across MSCI's industry-leading Analytics solutions, with a particular focus on expanding relationships and wallet share within hedge funds and sophisticated institutional investors. This individual acts as a strategic advisor to clients, deeply understanding their investment processes and delivering MSCI's risk, performance, and portfolio construction capabilities to solve complex challenges across the front, middle, and risk offices. This role requires a blend of
technical expertise, consultative sales skills, and deep market knowledge , along with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels within fast-moving, high-expectation hedge fund environments. Your Key Responsibilities:
Commercial Strategy & Revenue Growth
Develop and execute a territory and account plan to grow Analytics revenue across hedge funds and other assigned client segments.
Drive full sales cycle from prospecting and qualification through evaluation, negotiation, and close.
Identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities across MSCI's Analytics suite (RiskManager, Barra Models, Performance Attribution, Stress Testing, Scenario Analysis, Climate & ESG analytics integration).
Collaborate closely with Relationship Managers to expand existing accounts and convert strategic opportunities into sustained revenue.
Client Engagement & Advisory
Serve as a trusted partner to hedge fund clients by understanding their investment strategies, data architecture, workflows, and risk management frameworks.
Articulate MSCI's analytical value proposition in a way that resonates with diverse client personas (PMs, Risk Managers, Quant Researchers, COOs, CTOs).
Lead high-impact product demonstrations, technical deep dives, and workflow design discussions tailored to the client's investment process.
Navigate complex organizational structures to secure senior-level sponsorship and drive multi-stakeholder alignment.
Market Expertise & Product Knowledge
Maintain deep knowledge of quant and fundamental investment workflows, multi-asset analytics, factor models, derivatives, portfolio construction, and hedge-fund-specific risk practices.
Stay current with industry trends, regulatory developments, and competitive offerings to position MSCI effectively.
Provide client feedback to Product Management and Research to influence product roadmap and solution enhancements.
Internal Collaboration
Partner with Client Consultants, Product Specialists, Research, and Marketing to deliver compelling client engagements and support long sales cycles.
Work with Legal, Pricing, and Operations teams to structure commercial terms aligned with MSCI policies.
Represent MSCI at industry events, conferences, and thought-leadership forums.
Your skills and experience that will help you excel:
Industry & Technical Expertise
Deep understanding of portfolio analytics , including: Multi-asset class risk modeling
Factor models (e.g., Barra)
Performance attribution
Stress testing & scenario analysis
Derivatives pricing and analytics
Strong familiarity with
hedge fund investment strategies
such as long/short equity, global macro, multi-strategy, systematic/quant, credit, and derivatives-heavy portfolios.
Experience working with
front-office and risk workflows -from idea generation and portfolio construction to execution and post-trade risk oversight.
2. Sales & Commercial Experience
7-10+ years of
institutional sales
experience in analytics, risk systems, market data, portfolio management platforms, or other financial technology.
Proven success managing
complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles
from prospecting through negotiation and close.
Demonstrated ability to
exceed revenue targets
and grow wallet share in demanding client segments such as hedge funds.
Experience crafting and delivering compelling
value propositions
tailored to investment teams, risk managers, and executives.
Strong understanding of
commercial terms , pricing structures, procurement processes, and contract negotiation.
3. Client Relationship & Advisory Skills
Ability to build
trusted-advisor relationships
with portfolio managers, risk officers, quants, COOs, and CTOs.
Skilled at uncovering client pain points and translating them into
analytics-led solutions .
Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
High EQ and confidence navigating
senior and sophisticated stakeholders
in hedge fund environments.
4. Collaboration & Internal Influence
Ability to partner effectively with
Client Consultants, Product, Research, and Relationship Management
to deliver integrated solutions.
Experience providing structured client feedback to influence product development.
Strong cross-functional communication and project management skills.
5. Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills
Comfortable interpreting risk and performance analytics and understanding data structures, workflows, and investment processes.
Ability to assess client requirements and design
workflow-aligned solutions
leveraging MSCI analytics.
About MSCI:
What we offer you Salary Range: $120,000 - $165,000 / Year plus eligible for annual bonus. Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing. Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces. A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results. A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients. Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development. Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles. We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women's Leadership Forum. At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision - to power better decisions. You'll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry. MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates. MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries. To all recruitment agencies MSCI does not accept unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Please do not forward CVs/Resumes to any MSCI employee, location, or website. MSCI is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs/Resumes. Note on recruitment scams We are aware of recruitment scams where fraudsters impersonating MSCI personnel may try and elicit personal information from job seekers. Read our full note on careers.msci.com ]]>
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