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About the Role

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role within the Data & Analytics Transformation team, reporting to the Head of D&A Transformation. The role is central to shaping and governing the investment agenda across the D&A division, ensuring effective capital deployment for growth, innovation, and resilience. It is ideal for an engagement manager/principal from a top-tier consulting firm or a similar industry transformation role seeking to transition into a corporate environment while accelerating leadership growth.

Responsibilities

Partner with senior D&A leadership to translate strategic priorities into an actionable investment roadmap.
Lead the end-to-end investment planning process, including business case development, prioritization, and capital allocation for a multi-hundred-million-pound portfolio.
Ensure alignment between investment decisions and D&A’s growth, innovation, and risk management objectives.
Design and run robust portfolio prioritization frameworks to optimize return on investment and strategic impact.
Establish and maintain best-in-class investment governance, ensuring transparency, consistency, and executive-level clarity.
Provide high-quality materials and insights to support decision-making at Executive Committee and Board-level forums.
Track and evaluate portfolio performance against financial targets, strategic outcomes, and milestones.
Develop clear, insightful reporting and dashboards for proactive management of investment trade-offs and risks.
Identify opportunities to reallocate capital dynamically in response to changing business priorities.
Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Product, Technology, Operations, Finance, Risk, and Strategy.
Act as a trusted advisor to D&A leadership, bringing structured thinking, analytical rigor, and independent challenge.
Communicate complex analyses and recommendations clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Lead complex, ambiguous problem-solving efforts, structuring issues, synthesizing data, and driving actionable recommendations.
Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, and opportunities, and work collaboratively to resolve them at pace.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement in investment planning processes and tools.

Requirements

Background in a top-tier strategy consulting firm, ideally at engagement manager / principal level, or similar industry strategy / transformation role.
Proven experience in strategy, investment planning, or large-scale transformation programs.
Exposure to financial services, data businesses, and technology-led organizations is advantageous.
Outstanding analytical capability – able to structure complex problems and derive clear, actionable insights.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills – able to influence senior stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
Strong stakeholder management and collaboration – comfortable operating across a highly matrixed, global organization.
Attention to detail and quality – consistently delivers best-in-class outputs under tight timelines.
Commercial acumen – strong understanding of financial drivers, business cases, and value creation.
Energetic, proactive self-starter with a strong sense of ownership.
Curious and intellectually rigorous, with a passion for solving complex problems.
Resilient and adaptable, able to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
High leadership potential, with ambition to grow into senior roles within LSEG.
Foundational understanding of Artificial Intelligence or a strong passion to grow in this space.
Embrace a product-led approach—prioritizing user experience, data-driven decisions, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Investment Planning
Data & Analytics Transformation
AI
Product-Led Mindset
Strategic Thinking
Execution Excellence
Business Case Development
Capital Allocation
Portfolio Prioritization
Investment Governance
Performance Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Problem Solving
Analytical Skills
Communication Skills
Stakeholder Management
Collaboration
Commercial Acumen

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Benefits

Healthcare
Retirement planning
Paid volunteering days
Wellbeing initiatives

About the Company

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider.
Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.
Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day.
We are a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries.
We value individuality and enable employees to bring their true selves to work to enrich our diverse workforce.
We are committed to sustainability across our global business and partner with customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives.
The LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.
Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.
This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.