About the Role
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) is seeking a Senior Manager, Content Strategy & Acquisition to support the Exchange Content Strategy & Acquisition team. This role is responsible for licensing, distribution, and management of exchange content globally, with a primary focus on managing relationships and contract negotiations with global stock and derivatives exchanges, particularly in EMEA.
Responsibilities
- Partner with business stakeholders on exchange content requirements and strategy.
- Lead contractual negotiations with exchanges, securing group rights for data distribution, connectivity, and internal usage rights for products and services worldwide.
- Review, analyze, and negotiate exchange agreements and policies.
- Establish and maintain strong commercial relationships with exchange content providers.
- Negotiate and manage changes in exchange policies and fees and communicate updates to internal business lines.
- Manage exchange content rights and obligations, and make recommendations to the business on potential risks and suggested actions.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert on exchange data used throughout the business, to promote content strategy and rights management for ICE.
- Have broad understanding of regulatory changes and their potential impact on exchange licenses and commercials.
- Coordinate with Finance on content acquisition, fee changes, and budget forecasting.
- Support the management of third-party content data audits.
- Manage and contribute to exchange content projects.
- Participate in industry conferences and workshops.
Requirements
- Advanced understanding of market data and of financial markets.
- Strong experience negotiating commercial agreements/strong negotiation skills.
- Strong experience with a market data vendor or market data department in a financial institution.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
- Understanding of entitlement and billing systems.
- Excellent organizational skills, with ability to work with autonomy and to manage and adapt to change.
- Experience liaising with internal stakeholders and external vendors at all levels.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
- Attention to detail in high volume and high activity situations.
- Strong familiarity of complex real time business use cases, end-of-day business use cases, and derived data use cases.
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
About the Company
- Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) 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.
