Data Sourcing Manager

About Our Partner
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.

Job overview
Data is core to Our Partner’s industry offerings, and the data management team delivers accurate, timely and complete data enhancing the value of our award-winning offerings. The trust in our underlying content enables our clients to make key investment decisions. The data management team is responsible for acquisition and collection of key public and private data that fuels Our Partner’s online databases and products. Besides collecting content, the data management team collaborates extensively with our internal and external clients to improvise our offerings leveraging technology and subject matter expertise. The team understands the life cycle of data and establishes business intelligence reports seeking operational excellence.
The successful candidate will be part of Our Partner’s data management team and take on a role primarily managing vendors, creating operational excellence, ensure deliverables and also to develop and implement improved strategic sourcing policies across regions. Full training relevant to the role will be provided.

In this role you will:

• Evaluate sourcing procedures and presenting improvement sourcing and vendor strategies to senior management for approval.
• Conducting market research, as well as creating cost estimates and forecasts Analyzing, calculating costs and developing cost reduction strategies.
• Create scope of work & standardize framework for vendors.
• Negotiating contracts with key vendors, including costs and terms of supply, service, and quality.
• Collaborating with the finance, data management department to identify and pursue new vendor opportunities
• Driving selection decisions based on cost and scenario analysis, as well as market trends
• Manage stakeholders from different departments involved in Our Partner's data quality
• Create mechanisms to ensure delivery of quality work from vendors.
• Assessing the performance of vendors and ensuring vendor compliance with company standards.
• Managing vendor billing and disbursements.
• Hiring, training, and managing purchasing staff.
• Creating business optimization opportunities leveraging existing BI tools, to perform analysis, putting together reports internally for senior management.
• Identify areas of improvement on data vendor globally, create and further operational excellence for vendors.
• Estimating risks and applying risk minimizing techniques, as well as negotiating contracts that comply with industry regulations.
• Maintaining strategic sourcing relationships and developing strong partnerships.

You are a good fit if:

• At least 3-5 years of relevant working experience in finance/alternative assets preferred.
• Demonstrated communications skills with experience working with high level executives.
• Knowledge of business intelligence systems is preferred.
  Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong negotiation, management, and decision-making skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Prior experience working as vendor manager/ sourcing manager.
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders to ensure delivery of expectation.
• Experience in working across cultures and locations is preferred.

Our culture and values:
At Our Partner, we’re aligned around common values – our shared beliefs that shape Our Partner’s corporate culture:
Be customer-obsessed
We exist for our customers. We listen to them and understand their challenges. We design best-in-class data solutions for their success.
Act with integrity
We build trust through honesty and transparency. We’re committed to doing the right thing for our customers, our company, and each other.
Own your success
We’re a high-performance team. We challenge and champion each other in our pursuit of excellence. We never stop learning and strive to become experts in our fields.
Think forward
We lead the industry through innovation. We foster collaboration and creativity to solve our clients’ next challenge and give them a competitive advantage.
Make an impact
We drive positive change as individuals, and as a company. We’re passionate about creating a better tomorrow for our industry and our communities.