12 Oct
Reuters News Agency
Toronto
Job Description
As part of Thomson Reuter's D&A; organization, the Vice President, Strategy & Operations – Data & Analytics leads the Data Strategy execution and evolution, which is expected to be refreshed and refined throughout the year. They also manage the end-to-end delivery of services and projects across D&A;, and are responsible for creating and delivering business cases (including the administration required to record the associated financial information) on time and to budget. This role is responsible for being the executive lead of D&A; for mergers and acquisition work. Finally, they are also responsible for managing training and business operations activities for the wider D&A; organization.
This role reports directly into the Head of Data & Analytics and will partner across many stakeholders (C-level, Heads and cross-functional teams) to lead strategic, analytical, and procedural leadership to the data & analytics organization. This role will be a member of the D&A; leadership team and will be looked upon to drive the culture change, shifting the company to be data driven.
About The Role
In this opportunity as Vice President, Strategy & Operations - Data & Analytics you will be responsible for:
Strategy And Leadership
- Lead the Data & Analytics strategy evolution and execution, optimize efforts with other enterprise programs, driving the organization towards a data-driven culture.
- Lead the D&A; roadmaps for data architecture, responsible AI and data use, data and AI marketplace, enterprise analytics, data management and shared services.
- Partner with and build trusting relationships with leadership and key stakeholders across enterprise functions and business units to ensure alignment across initiatives.
- Build & execute a comprehensive communications strategy that upskills data and analytics capabilities across the organization.
- Identify trends, patterns and insights on complex data sets to inform business strategy and improve operational effectiveness.
Operational Excellence
- Establish and maintain performance metrics (e.g. KPIs) and scorecards that provide leadership the visibility into the organization’s progress of its goals.
- Manages and directs staff and matrixed resources and maximizes outsourced services to accomplish key deliverables.
- Prepare status reports for various stakeholders and develop formalized presentations for BoD and executive stakeholder briefings.
- Lead a business operations team that drives operational discipline and organizational cadences across Data & Analytics and D&A; leadership team.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A;)
- Lead the engagement for D&A; on all mergers and acquisitions.
- Partner with corporate development and finance teams to identify data and analytics opportunities and risks in potential M&A; transactions.
- Lead the due diligence processes of data systems, analytics functions, and AI models.
- Develop E2E data and analytics M&A; integration plans in consultation with D&A; LT teams.
About You
You're a fit for the role of Vice President, Strategy & Operations - Data & Analytics if your background includes:
Education And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in operations, business, computer science, IT, or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 10 years of experience with a strong focus on large-scale program management, transformation, and/or delivery
- Experience in data and analytics and strong understanding of the role in mergers and acquisitions
- Prior experience working in a large, geographically dispersed organization
- Prior experience working in information technology, with prior experience in cybersecurity a plus
- Expertise in MS Office
- Strong knowledge of cloud database design, data modeling, and data warehousing principles.
- Experience with a variety of distributed systems patterns including data caching, federated search, event driven, synchronous and asynchronous processing.
- Familiarity with big data technologies, machine learning, and analytics platforms.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in driving large-scale change across a global organization
- Strong organization, analytical and problem-solving skills with an end-user focus
- Ability to prioritize, self-initiate, and create momentum, even with partial guidance or information
- Exceptionally strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate updates and desired outcomes in a succinct manner
What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
- Wellbeing:
Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- Social Impact:
Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
- Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent,
just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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