Transformation Portfolio Director, Data & Feeds

London Stock Exchange Group•Brookfield, NY

About The Position

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.