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About the Role

The Manager, Data Vendor Management, will function as the 3rd Party Data Product Owner, accountable for the end-to-end lifecycle, performance, and value realization of third-party data products. This role leads data sourcing, commercial negotiations, contract lifecycle management, vendor relationships, budget stewardship, and risk management, ensuring data products are trusted, fit for purpose, cost-effective, scalable, and aligned with organizational priorities.

Responsibilities

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap and lifecycle for assigned third-party data products.
Act as the accountable product owner and primary point of contact for vendors, business stakeholders, data consumers, technology partners and corporate partners.
Develop a deep understanding of customer goals, workflows and data consumption patterns.
Define clear product outcomes, service expectations and success measures.
Maintain and prioritize the product backlog.
Translate business needs and vendor capabilities into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and release priorities.
Establish feedback loops with consumers and continuously improve product usability, documentation, service performance, and adoption.
Lead discovery and market scans to identify data sources and services that address business priorities and strengthen data capabilities.
Evaluate vendors and data products across business fit, coverage, methodology, quality, delivery model, operating resilience, licensing, integration effort, risk and total cost of ownership.
Develop business cases and recommendations that clearly articulate options, benefits, trade-offs, implementation considerations and expected value.
Monitor industry, technology and data-market trends; proactively share relevant insights and identify emerging opportunities.
Provide consultative guidance on data categories, vendor offerings, permitted use, and effective adoption.
Build strong relationships with business clients in the Investments Division to understand their data requirements, how data will be used to support the investment activities and identify any potential gaps.
Develop and maintain an effective and productive relationship with data vendors focused on delivering value while minimizing risk.
Maintain complete, accurate records of contracts, entitlements, products, users, costs, renewal dates, obligations, vendor contacts and key decisions.
Build strategic vendor relationships and conduct regular business reviews to assess service, product roadmap, innovation, issue resolution, risk and value delivery.
Plan renewals sufficiently in advance to preserve negotiating leverage, complete required governance, and avoid service disruption.
Lead and support budget planning, forecasting, invoice validation and allocations, accruals and financial reporting for the assigned data portfolio.
Monitor spending, commitments, utilization and variances; provide transparent reporting and timely recommendations to business and finance partners.
Optimize total cost of ownership through demand management, entitlement rationalization, consolidation, pricing benchmarks, usage analysis and commercial negotiation.
Ensure data products comply with licensing restrictions, contractual obligations, internal policies, privacy, security, records-management and third-party risk requirements.
Partner with data governance & technology teams to define and monitor product-level controls for data quality, lineage, metadata, access, availability and timeliness.
Establish data performance metrics.
Educate users on permitted uses, restrictions and responsibilities; coordinate vendor audits and remediate identified compliance gaps.
Identify, assess and communicate product, vendor, contractual, operational and concentration risks; maintain appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
Ensure material incidents and data-quality issues are triaged, communicated, resolved, and followed by sustainable corrective action.
Build trusted partnerships across business, investments, data, technology, legal, procurement, finance, risk and operations.
Lead cross-functional working groups and delivery teams through influence, clear priorities, timely decisions and disciplined follow-through.
Communicate product roadmaps, decisions, risks, dependencies, performance and financial position to senior stakeholders in concise, decision-ready language.
Support organizational change, onboarding and adoption through communications, documentation, training and stakeholder engagement.
Contribute subject-matter expertise to enterprise data strategy, operating-model and process-improvement initiatives.

Requirements

University degree in business, finance, economics, computer science, data management or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
Strong commercial and contract acumen, including negotiation of data licensing, pricing, usage rights, service levels and risk provisions.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation and negotiation skills, with the ability to translate complex data & contractual matters for technical & non-technical audiences.
5+ years of manager level experience in market data vendor management, data sourcing, contract management, product ownership, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience managing complex third-party data products in financial services, investments or another data-intensive environment (i.e. regulatory, etc.).
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.

Skills

Data Product Ownership
Data Sourcing
Market Intelligence
Vendor Management
Contract Lifecycle Management
Budget Management
Risk Management
Commercial Negotiations
Data Governance
Data Quality
Stakeholder Management
Product Strategy
Roadmap Development
Financial Services
Investments

Location

Remote
In-office

Work Type

Flexible work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working

Experience Level

Manager level

Education Level

University degree in business, finance, economics, computer science, data management or related discipline, or equivalent experience.

Salary/Compensations

$105,000 - $155,000

Benefits

Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage
Retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
The opportunity to invest back into the fund through our Deferred Incentive Program
Competitive time off
Our Flexible Travel Program gives you the option to work abroad in another region/country for up to a month each year
Employee discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis

About the Company

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.

Equal Opportunity

At Ontario Teachers', diversity is one of our core strengths. We take pride in ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create, reflect and embrace diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), we celebrate diversity and foster inclusion through events for colleagues to connect for professional development, networking & mentoring. We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, check out Life at Teachers'.