Senior Content Licensing Manager

ISI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ISI Markets is seeking a Senior Content Licensing Manager to lead our strategic data partnerships portfolio and secure the content, rights and commercial relationships that power our intelligence products. You will identify valuable new sources, negotiate terms, and strengthen relationships with providers to support our APIs, analytics and AI-enabled services used by customers.

Join a dynamic, global team and own a global supplier portfolio, collaborating across Product, Legal and Commercial

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in content licensing, data acquisition or partnerships.
• Experience negotiating complex data supply and licensing agreements.
• Understanding of how structured datasets are sourced and delivered.
• Ability to assess commercial value alongside data quality.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders across regions.

Responsibilities

• Set sourcing and licensing priorities for datasets based on customer needs and product plans.
• Identify and develop partnerships with data providers.
• Lead negotiations covering fees, access and AI use cases.
• Manage supplier relationships, renewals and risk across the portfolio.
• Collaborate with Product, Content, Technology, Legal and Commercial teams.
• Assess gaps and opportunities to improve coverage and value.

Skills

Content licensing

Data partnerships

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

API data delivery

Job description

ISI Markets is seeking a Senior Content Licensing Manager to lead the strategic data partnerships portfolio, securing the content, rights and commercial relationships that power our intelligence, analytics and AI-enabled products.

You will identify valuable new sources, negotiate the commercial terms and usage rights needed for our products, and strengthen relationships with existing providers. Your work will help power the market intelligence, analytics, APIs and AI-enabled products used by our customers.

What you’ll do

• Set sourcing and licensing priorities for economic and financial datasets, based on customer needs, product plans and commercial value.
• Identify, evaluate and develop partnerships with global, regional and local data providers.
• Lead negotiations covering fees, access, redistribution, API delivery and relevant AI use cases.
• Manage supplier relationships, renewals, performance and contractual risks across the portfolio.
• Work with Product, Content, Technology, Legal and Commercial teams to bring new datasets into our services and make effective use of existing ones.
• Assess gaps, overlapping sources and investment opportunities to improve coverage and portfolio value.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of experience in content licensing, data acquisition or partnerships within economic data, financial information, market data or a related information service.
• A track record of negotiating complex data supply and licensing agreements.
• An understanding of how structured datasets are sourced, delivered and used in information products, including through APIs.
• The ability to assess commercial value alongside data quality, coverage and usage rights.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders and suppliers across different functions and regions.

Why join ISI Markets?

You’ll shape the data partnerships behind our emerging markets intelligence products and help expand how customers use our content across research, analytics and new AI-enabled services. This is an opportunity to own a global supplier portfolio and work closely with the teams turning data into products.

If you enjoy complex negotiations, building lasting supplier relationships and finding valuable data that customers cannot easily access elsewhere, we’d like to hear from you.

#LI-MR1