Content Acquisition Specialist, Reuters Knowledge – NY
Thomson Reuters is
hiring a Content Acquisition Specialist to manage and facilitate the
implementation of plans to proactively acquire information necessary for
product initiatives and future ventures
Legal / Content Acquisition / Content Acquisition Specialist
Key Responsibilities
- Executes the acquisition strategy for core and high-value content.
- Determines or assist in determining acquisition priorities, timelines, methods of acquisition, composition of the team, and budget/resource allocation.
- Communicates and negotiates with government sources regarding a wide range of data issues, including: securing website rights and access, troubleshooting errant data or technical anomalies, communicating company’s policies, and making tactful inquiries to resolve issues.
- Helps to ensure company initiatives/major projects/core revenues are successful by rapidly adding and maintaining data through:
- Leveraging and managing current acquisition relationships.
- Establishing/building relationships with non-traditional data providers.
- Maintains relations with state and federal government to help maintain core products.
- Helps lead teams that arrange and implement processes to acquire data.
- Assists in identifying and driving acquisition costs/process efficiencies.
- Assists in the development of performance and production metrics.
- Works with numerous groups across the organization, including: Strategy & Business Development, Primary Law Development, Cases & 3rd party Content, Codes Content, Strategic Marketing and NPD.
- Helps manage the acquisition costs with an ongoing responsibility to develop efficiencies.
- Drives acquisition efforts to meet planned revenue targets.
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS:
- Manage the teams responsible for reporting databases and acquisition software necessary for acquisition initiatives.
- Responsible for project management and the performance of the team responsible for capturing the data.
- Recommends and negotiates costs of data with individual data source, ranging from minimal administrative fees to approximately $10,000 annually.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- MA degree with 1-2 yrs of progressive experience in publishing or government OR
- BA degree with 5-7 yrs of progressive experience in publishing or government OR
- Experience developing and fostering relationships with internal and external partners.
- Experience negotiating agreements with outside parties.
- Excellent people and team management skills.
- Demonstrated negotiation skills.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to discuss and present complex information.
- Demonstrated ability to respond to deadline pressures.
- Knowledge of government entities and general business knowledge.
