About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

Senior Associate CARM (Content Acquisition & Rights Management) - Poland

The Role:  

The Senior Associate - CARM (Content Acquisition & Rights Management) will support the centralized function within S&P Global responsible for the licensing, distribution and management of 3rd party content and services globally. This role will establish and manage relationships with various 3rd party content and services providers including stock exchanges across the world, implementing internal controls to ensure that both a. use of such content and services contracts meet the needs of our businesses and b. S&P Global’s use complies with all agreed terms and conditions. The successful candidate will be expected to establish and manage relationships with various 3rd party data sources and exchanges, be responsible for negotiating commercial and contractual terms related to the business’ internal use and external redistribution of data across various proprietary products. This position will be based in Gdansk, Poland.

The Team:

The Content Acquisition and Rights Management (CARM) team is the market data advisory group to the S&P Global organization. The CARM group currently manages this function for S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Ratings Services, S&P Global Commodity Insights, S&P Global Mobility, Sustainable1 and Kensho and is prepared to support and assume responsibility for additional business groups within S&P Global as well. CARM has a collaborative, proactive & strategic approach to content acquisition, data sharing, savings/synergies and governance.

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.

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