Manager, Content Strategy & Acquisition
Job Purpose
The Intercontinental Exchange is a leading global financial information services provider with an established track record of providing mission-critical, high quality financial information and value-added services, including real-time data, pricing and reference data, fixed income evaluations, security and portfolio analytics and customized financial information portals and terminals.
We seek highly motivated candidates for an opportunity to join the Content Strategy & Acquisition team which supports ICE's market data content requirements, procurement and analysis.
This primary responsibility of this position will be to support the content acquisition process and strategy at ICE by managing contract reviews & negotiations with key exchange and non-exchange market data providers.
Responsibilities- Coordinate with business stakeholders on content requirements and strategy.
- Review, negotiate and process license agreements to ensure broadest content use at the lowest possible price.
- Negotiate and process amendments to existing exchange and non-exchange market data agreements.
- Coordinate with Finance on content acquisitions, fee changes and budget forecasting.
- Manage commercial relationships with market data vendors and exchanges as required.
- Communicate and interpret rights based on license agreements, exchange policies and other rules, and promote rights management best practices. Communicate as appropriate to internal business lines.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert on market data used throughout firm and leverage that knowledge accordingly to shape and support ICE's content strategy.
- Manage and/or participate in content related projects & initiatives.
- Participate in industry conferences and workshops
- Advanced understanding of market data and the financial markets
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience negotiating commercial agreements and strong negotiation skills
- Strong contract administration experience.
- Relationship management experience.
- Content Budget Management experience
- High proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Experience with real time, delayed, end-of-day and historical market data licensing concepts
- Experience in licensing redistribution, index creation, sustainable finance, and derived data use cases.
- Prior experience with a market data vendor and/or market data management within a financial institution preferred
Schedule
This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week.