Senior Associate CARM (Content Acquisition & Rights Management)

at  SP Global Inc

REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant experience focused on financial information/market data vendor relationship management, contract negotiations and overall market data management (with experience of managing stock exchange relationships a plus).
• Knowledge of financial information and market data industry - including various vendors and products available in the marketplace (and knowledge of stock exchanges’ products and services and associated market data policies a plus).
• Strong negotiation skills and experience with reviewing, revising, and negotiating 3rd party data supplier/Stock Exchange agreements.
• Complex and creative commercial deal negotiation experience as well as strong aptitude for reviewing, revising, and authoring contract terms a must.
• Problem-solving and synergy cost savings analysis experience a must.
• Attention to detail, follow-through on projects and multi-tasking skills.
• Candidate must possess a solid knowledge of financial information and market data industry
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Must have strong customer focus with demonstrated ability to be highly responsive and present solutions to requests and issues. CARM is a centralized business support team and function, and all business stakeholders within the firm are our customers.
• Comfortable liaising with internal stakeholders and external vendors at a variety of levels.
• Excellent presentation and writing skills with ability to influence.
• Excellent organizational and team building skills. Must be highly organized and self-directed with the ability to work autonomously and adapt to change.
  What’s In It For You?

OUR PEOPLE:

We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.
From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead commercial deal and contractual negotiations. This includes selecting vendors, negotiating commercial terms and finalizing into complete and executed agreements, obtaining necessary business stakeholder approvals, and managing rights and obligations post execution. For larger and more strategic partnerships, collaborate with other CARM colleagues, including the Global Head of CARM, as necessary.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with the company’s third-party content and service providers (including stock exchanges), keeping up to date on the latest offerings and all associated market data policies. Forge solid relationships with all key internal stakeholders and understand their products, content and business needs.
• Collaborate with the business divisions/groups to elaborate strategies around product creation, enhancements and increased revenues and execute on those by presenting and procuring approvals and recommendations to either buy/acquire, organically create/build, or license content and related services.
• Partner with business stakeholders to review requests for additional content and services, clearly documenting and understanding each request.
• Lead contract renewal process for all assigned vendors and agreements. Partner with business stakeholders to assess potential for re-evaluation and re-negotiation as may best benefit the evolving needs and budgets of the business.
• Ensure compliance with existing license grants, making recommendations to the business on potential risks and suggested actions.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date summaries of all vendor relationships and related contracts and policy terms.
• Meet with business stakeholders and vendors, review news and periodicals, attend training and events to continuously grow and evolve knowledgebase of S&P’s products and services, S&P’s 3rd party vendor partners, and the overall financial information and market data industry.
• Implement and promote best practices globally, including identifying opportunities to optimize and leverage data sources across the organization. Abide by CARM standards and protocol, implementing new processes and procedures to evolve with the business and optimize the workflows of CARM and its value provided to the businesses CARM supports.
• Coordinate and facilitate the sharing of data and information assets between and among the S&P Global businesses while following the prescribed guidelines of the S&P Global Data Sharing Framework.

OUR PURPOSE:

Progress is not a self-starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology-the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world.
Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.