Transformation Portfolio Director, Data & Feeds

LSEG•Brookfield, WI

About The Position

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG. OUR PEOPLE: People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential. We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and one rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil your potential with meaningful careers. Role profile: This is a unique opportunity to join the Data & Analytics Division of The London Stock Exchange Group as the Transformation Portfolio Director for Data & Feeds. The role reports directly to the Head of D&A Transformation and serves the Data & Feeds business. Data & Feeds is a c£2bn revenue business that provides market-leading Real Time, Pricing & Reference Services, and Company Data services for Financial Services customers across the globe. It is a high growth area for D&A and is undergoing a period of significant transformation in terms of platform evolution and new product innovation. The successful candidate will closely partner with the Group Head of Data & Feeds to define and deliver the investment portfolio for Data & Feeds with an annual investment budget of £150m+. He/she will play a central role in investment prioritisation, portfolio management, delivery oversight, financial management, reporting and governance, working with the broader Transformation Leadership Team to ensure robust and timely delivery of programme outcomes within the Group’s Change Framework. The role will directly manage a team of around 20 FTEs focussed on delivering the Data & Feeds product roadmap.

Requirements

Extensive previous portfolio and programme management experience demonstrated track record in delivering strategic and complex programmes within a matrix environment.
Deep understanding of core programme management disciplines, eagerness to adopt and facilitate agile change frameworks.
Ability to engage with technical product managers and engineering teams through immersion in the content of programmes, not just running a process.
Proactiveness and energy to identify key issues / roadblocks and work collaboratively with stakeholders to drive through prompt resolution.
Strong financial management skills in terms of business case development, budget and benefits management.
Familiarity with project management, reporting and analysis tools – Microsoft Office, PowerBI, Clarity and Asana.
Ability to take an amorphous request, define the problem statement, gather the data and provide an analysis.
Excellent interpersonal, presenting and relationship management skills at all levels of the organisation, including C-level stakeholders and 3rd parties.
Attention to detail, ability to lead and quality assure best-in-class planning, reporting and forecasting.
Proven ability to manage / develop a high performing team.
Degree (or equivalent) and relevant professional qualification

Responsibilities

Partner with Group Head of Data & Feeds to translate the Data & Feeds product strategy into an associated Transformation roadmap, programme and architecture blueprint.
Lead the investment planning process for Data & Feeds, across both Growth and Risk and Resiliency, developing and maintaining initiative business cases and running associated portfolio prioritisation activities to ensure optimal capital allocation.
Deliver the Data & Feeds programme portfolio, ensuring timely delivery of business outcomes, financial benefits and milestones within budget.
Define and maintain dynamic portfolio management to ensure flexibility to address project overspends or fund new projects outside of annual planning processes.
Define and maintain portfolio and programme governance, ensuring robust delivery oversight, risk and dependency management, financial management and reporting aligned with the Group’s Change Framework.
Manage the change, product and risk & resiliency roadmaps, orchestrating dependency management and cross-portfolio communications to ensure transparency and accountability.
Proactively identify and resolve key delivery issues, ensuring clear escalations and strategic decision making to remove barriers to execution or mitigate risks.
Maintain best-in-class programme reporting, fulfilling central PMO requirements whilst ensuring full transparency for D&A and Group Executives.
Promote and foster cross-functional collaboration across a broad range of LSEG and Microsoft stakeholders, providing collegiate leadership consistent with the LSEG Group Values.
Lead, coach and mentor programme and project managers within direct report line and across the D&A Transformation community.