Head of Business Strategy, Trading Job in New York 10036, New York US
Head of Business Strategy, Trading
At Thomson Reuters, we deliver intelligent information quickly and efficiently, so professionals have knowledge to act. We combine industry expertise with innovative technology to deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the financial, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and scientific, healthcare, and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
The Trading segment within the Financial Risk business serves the financial community by allowing market participants to connect, access rich content and trade in a secure environment. Trading provides customers a combination of the Thomson Reuters Eikon desktop, the Thomson Reuters Elektron network, content integration and management technology, content feeds and databases and transactions infrastructure. This combination of solutions supports the trading activities of buy-side and sell-side customers in foreign exchange (FX), fixed income and derivatives, equities and other exchange-traded instruments, and in the commodities and energy markets.
Our content and technology enable firms to efficiently obtain real-time and non-real-time content to make business and trading decisions and meet regulatory requirements. Our solutions enable users to develop and execute trading strategies quickly, efficiently and securely and provide a combination of deep, global cross-asset news and content combined with sophisticated pre-trade decision-making, communication and trade-connectivity tools. In 2011, our Trading business continued to roll out, enhance and develop our flagship information.
• Lead in-house consulting and business development team for the $3b+ Trading segment within Finance and Risk
• Collaborate with senior business management on all aspects of the organization's business development policies, objectives, and initiatives
• Responsible for developing new market initiatives, assessing new markets, analyzing business opportunities, developing pricing strategies, and conducting competitive analysis
• Manage the annual strategic planning process
• Shape strategic and business plan development, business analysis, and new business development
• Approve all project initiatives and ensures the project supports the strategic vision
• Direct cross-functional teams and facilitate efforts to build new business strategies, rationalize processes, and identify, qualify and present strategic issues to top management
• Develop quantitative models to support business development and value creation efforts
• Collaborate with external consulting firms and internal staff groups such as Technology, Finance, and Human Resources
• Prepare and conduct presentations to all levels of employees, including CSO and other executives
• Excellent at presenting information in a formal manner to all employees.
• Write project justifications and proposals, including capital expenditures for the Strategic Development group, and present proposals to peers and other executives
• Manage multiple key projects simultaneously, including budgets and strategic direction
• Advise staff and assist in professional growth development
• Consultant to managers on performance management, employee relations and recruit
REQUIREMENTS:
• Very strong strategy and project management skills
• Experience in leading a range of strategy projects from start to finish across a range of subject areas
• Business acumen and ability to read and synthesize various financial and industry specific productivity and competitive analysis reports; practical application of business and process-mapping techniques
• Extensive Global experience through both living in and working in multiple countries
• Track record in conceptualizing, establishing and building new businesses
• Ability to facilitate large group sessions with top-level executives
• Excellent project management skills and ability to manage multiple, time-sensitive projects with competing demands for resources.
• International business development/strategy experience/ knowledge
• Language skills preferred
• Travel estimated at 10%
• MBA in finance or related field required
• 8 to 10 years of strategy and business development experience with a high degree of quantitative and analytical experience, 3+ years of international business experience including acquisition and international financial understanding
• 6+ years of strategic consulting experience in various entities
At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 55,000 colleagues in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
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, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
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