Associate Director

Segment: S&P Global Market Intelligence

The Role: Associate Director

Grade: 12 (for internal applicants only)

The Location: Gurgaon, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, or Islamabad

The Role:

As a member of the Data Operations team, you will work to develop, implement, and champion the S&P Global Market Intelligence’s initiatives involving data assets, workflow, and technology capabilities critical for our customers in making effective decisions across multiple industry segments. As we continue to evolve Data Operations, we have an opportunity to not only deliver on client first initiatives by evolving our datasets but also transform the way we run our operations. To that end, this role will refine value streams, integrate synchronous datasets, and leverage synergies, enabling us to manage our internal operations more efficiently and maximize value for our clients.

The Team:

Transactions Team collects and validates data using search tools, press releases, company websites, stock exchange websites and regulatory filings with a view to provide in-depth, accurate and timely information about different types of Capital Market Offerings and M&A events such as tender offer, reverse merger, etc., which is then provided to our clients in the form of a formulated product for S&P Global Market Intelligence.

The Impact:

• This role would be driving the key initiatives within the M&A content space.
• This role would be working closely with Data Management, Data Quality, Data Transformation and Technology teams supporting and partnering with them on key strategic initiatives taken up by the dataset.
• The role would drive critical analysis to support the collection teams in doing their job better and course-correct wherever required.
• This role would also be part of the operations leadership influencing the culture, engagement, and career development of all team members of the dataset.

What’s in it for you:

• Be a part of “GREAT PLACE TO WORK” Certified firms.
• Lead and drive the transformational journey for the Transactions domain

• Opportunity to experiment and implement your innovative thoughts
• Be responsible for driving customer experience through superior data quality

• Opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders across the data, product, and technology organizations at SPGMI and cross divisionally. 
• Opportunity to learn and develop professional competencies
• Coach highly motivated and skilled team to modernize operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply a broad knowledge of operations principles, business drivers, and related areas to impact business results.
• Translate organizational strategy into department goals and work with department management to put an execution plan in place
• Be a “trusted partner” for key stakeholders in data, transformation, and technology organization
• Be a change agent and contribute towards the journey of continuous transformation
• Anticipate complexity of recommended changes, and overcome resistance to change – be a change leader 
• Draw intelligence and recommend key areas to focus for process efficiency, improvement, and control
• Establish process stability and control checks to preempt risks and mitigate those before they impact the customer
• Talent management will be pivotal to this role – augmentation of skills within the existing team and identify & bring in external talent in line with technology trends. Keep D&I as a high area focus and actively address asymmetries in the talent mix.
• Accountable for employee development, engagement, and performance management
• Develop dataset level skill development strategy and implementation plan

What We are Looking For: 

• An enthusiastic leader with eagerness to continuously learn and contribute
• Excellent client and market knowledge as well as ability to contribute to the continued development of the content
• Strong communication skills and an ability to lead /manage initiatives of varied complexity simultaneously and simplify the communication with variety of stakeholders
• A well organized, pro-active, solution-oriented individual with a “getting things done” mindset
• Proven track record of working in a cross-cultural environment
• Full time MBA or bachelor’s degree from a recognized university
• 14-16 years of work experience including transformational project management and managing teams with at least 8 years of being a manager of managers
• LEAN Six Sigma Certification or Project Management certification would be preferred

S&P Global Market Intelligence:

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we know that not all information is important—some of it is vital. Accurate, deep, and insightful. We integrate financial and industry data, research and news into tools that help track performance, generate alpha, identify investment ideas, understand competitive and industry dynamics, perform valuation, and assess credit risk. Investment professionals, government agencies, corporations and universities globally can gain the intelligence essential to making business and financial decisions with conviction.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit .

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (“the Policy”) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy’s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.   

Equal Opportunity Employer:

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law.  Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

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