Capital Markets Manager

Overview

In this role you will act as RLAM’s central expert on ETF market structure, liquidity, and the wider ecosystem. You will oversee outsourced capital markets arrangements and contribute to the ETF product lifecycle from design to launch and ongoing enhancement. Working with Investments, Trading, Product, Operations and Distribution, you will drive market quality, governance and continuous improvement across Capital Markets processes. You will build strong relationships with market participants and help shape liquidity strategies at scale, delivering tangible impact for clients and the platform. This is an opportunity to influence ETF market architecture within a leading UK asset manager and to

Pay / Benefits

• 28 days annual leave
• bank holidays
• up to 14% employer matching pension
• private medical insurance

Responsibilities

• Act as the central expert for ETF market structure, liquidity, and the capital markets ecosystem
• Oversee governance and performance of outsourced ETF Capital Markets provider and primary market arrangements
• Monitor market quality metrics (spreads, depth, execution quality, liquidity, premium/discount) and benchmark against peers
• Develop strategic relationships with authorised participants, market makers, exchanges, and trading desks
• Formulate and oversee liquidity strategy and contractual arrangements to optimize ETF trading and liquidity
• Collaborate with Product, Investments and Trading on ETF design, basket strategy, seeding and launch readiness
• Serve as senior escalation point for major market issues and provide insights to Distribution, governance and product teams

Key requirements

• Relevant experience in ETF Capital Markets, institutional trading, or ETF product development
• Strong knowledge of the European ETF ecosystem, UCITS ETFs, market structure, and multi-listing considerations
• Established relationships with authorised participants, market makers, brokers, exchanges
• Experience supporting ETF product design, launches and ongoing platform development
• Proven ability to oversee third-party providers and drive service quality and continuous improvement
• Strong analytical abilities to translate market data into actionable insights
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across cross-functional teams

• stakeholder management
• cross-functional collaboration
• analytical mindset
• ETF market structure
• market quality metrics
• liquidity strategy

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