Vice President, Market Data Services

** About this role*
* At Black Rock, our smartest investment is you. We are a global investment manager helping more and more people experience financial well-being. Black Rock's business is investing on behalf of our clients, from large institutions to parents, grandparents, doctors and teachers who entrust their savings to us.  We are committed to our clients - period. Our promise is to offer them the clearest thinking about what to do with their money and the products and services they need to secure a better financial future.

That's why investors of all kinds have made us the world's largest asset manager, entrusting us with trillions of dollars, and it's also why companies, institutions and global governments come to us for help meeting their biggest financial challenges.

** About Index & Data Solutions (IDS)*
* Financial information is at the heart of what Black Rock does. The Index & Data Solutions team (IDS) is responsible for sourcing the index and market data that supports the firm's investment and risk management products and services as well as managing the relevant commercial relationships, focusing on fostering & maintaining strong partnerships with the largest and most strategic index and data providers. 

To do this well, IDS (i) support the most strategic initiatives of Black Rock as those initiatives relate to market data providers and (ii) works closely with key internal business stakeholders to ensure we maintain strong alignment on business strategy and partner effectively to resolve challenges. 

** The Role*
* The team is looking for a VP to join the Relationship Management function who will (i) contribute meaningfully to managing relationships with our strategic data providers, with a focus on understanding the legal underpinnings of data Licensing and intellectual property (IP)  (ii) keep up to date with industry initiatives that affect those relationships and keep the business informed of them, especially around the impact of AI on the usage rights Black Rock can make of 3rd party content, without exposing Black Rock to risk and (iii) keep up to date with the fast changing regulatory landscape for market data and how that impacts Black Rock and our clients,

The best candidate for this role will understand the importance of our firm's culture & principles in driving execution, and how to "connect the dots" with businesses & functions across the firm to achieve the best commercial outcomes with high provider partnership and accountability. To be successful in this role will require the ability to identify and prioritize critical issues while demonstrating outstanding communication and organizational skills in progressing and resolving.

The successful candidate will need to be able to converse and influence C Suite executives on a wide range of issues relating to their subject matter expertise.

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* Key Responsibilities:

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* + Be the lead in developing deep relationships with majorbusiness units within Black Rock, Black Rock Global Markets, Black Rock Tech & Ops,all on a globalbasis.

This will entail:

+ Developing relationships with senior (COO) colleagues in those groups to make sure IDSmeetstheir needs.

+ Working with IDS colleagues whoownrelationships with other business units (PMG,Aladdin, etc.) to make sure we have a consistent message to those business units,and we are sharing best practices on how IDS best serves those businesses.

+ Working with those business units to develop data strategiesso they are best prepared tomeet their immediate andlong-term objectives.

+ Understanding the legal underpinnings of our relationships with strategic vendor partners andbeable to convey those to senior management.

+ Working with other members of the IDS team toensureconsistency across IDS in implementing best practices and working with senior membersof the IDS team to implement streamlined processes, especially as it involves the potential use of AIfrom vendors.

Developingdeep,constructive relationships with our keymarket datapartnersby building mutually beneficial commercial engagements.

You will beakey resource in managingthose relationships and willbe responsible for ensuring they are mutually…