Data Operations - Enterprise Market Data Strategy Lead

Careers at KKR•New York, NY

2d•$185,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

KKR is establishing a new Enterprise Market Data Strategy capability within its Global Data Operations team. This role will define and drive the firm-wide strategy for market data, partnering across businesses and functions to optimize investments, unlock greater value from data providers, and ensure market data capabilities evolve alongside KKR’s growth. The leader will influence commercial negotiations, steer enterprise-wide demand management, drive transparency into spending and usage, and build the operating model, reporting, and tools that enable smarter decision-making across the firm. This role offers a unique opportunity to create a scalable market data ecosystem that enhances investment insight, improves efficiency, and delivers measurable enterprise value. The position reports directly to the Global Head of Data Operations.

Requirements

8–12 years of experience in market data strategy, market data operations, data product management, vendor management, or related roles within financial services, market data providers, or information services firms.
Deep knowledge of the market data ecosystem, including major providers such as Bloomberg, LSEG, FactSet, S&P Global, MSCI, ICE, and Moody’s, as well as their products, licensing models, commercial structures, and competitive positioning.
Strong understanding of how market data is consumed across investment research, portfolio management, trading, risk, compliance, operations, and finance workflows.
Experience managing enterprise market data platforms, inventories, entitlements, vendor catalogs, or related solutions such as Calero, TRG Screen, Alveo, or similar technologies.
Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate vendor proposals, negotiate complex agreements, analyze usage and spend data, identify optimization opportunities, and build business cases that deliver measurable value.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise initiatives in a highly matrixed environment, partnering effectively across business, technology, finance, sourcing, and legal teams.
Experience establishing operating models, governance frameworks, reporting, and decision-making processes for enterprise data, technology, or market data programs.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to develop executive-level materials and present recommendations to senior leadership.
Bachelor’s degree required.
Collaborative, intellectually curious, commercially minded, and execution-oriented, with a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a financial institution with $100B+ in AUM, or at a Tier 1 market data vendor in a strategic, product, or senior client-facing capacity.
Familiarity with alternative asset management workflows, including private equity, credit, real assets, and insurance investment operations.
Hands-on experience implementing or administering market data management tools (Calero, TRG Screen, MDSL, or equivalent) including data model design, inventory configuration, and reporting.
Knowledge of market data regulatory and compliance requirements, including exchange audit processes, redistribution rules, and licensing restrictions.
Experience with cost allocation methodologies for enterprise data and market data spend, and with enterprise budgeting and forecasting in a financial services context.
MBA or advanced degree in a relevant discipline.

Responsibilities

Own KKR’s enterprise market data strategy, including spend optimization, demand management, vendor rationalization, and alignment of market data investments with business priorities.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of KKR’s market data landscape, including vendors, products, contracts, entitlements, usage, and spend.
Lead evaluation and governance of market data demand, ensuring new requests, existing subscriptions, and vendor relationships deliver measurable business value and ROI.
Serve as the business owner of the Calero platform, defining its vision, requirements, and operating model to provide enterprise-wide visibility into market data inventory, licensing, usage, and contracts.
Partner with business leaders, COOs, FP&A, Sourcing, Legal, Technology, and Data Operations to understand needs, manage tradeoffs, and support strategic market data decisions across the firm.
Drive transparency and accountability through reporting, budgeting, forecasting, renewal planning, and executive-level communications, including Market Data Steering Committee updates.
Lead commercial optimization initiatives, including vendor consolidation, contract negotiations, license right-sizing, entitlement management, and other opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Ensure effective operational management of the market data ecosystem, including contract compliance, license governance, technology enablement, and support for scalable processes and controls.