Team Lead, Commercial Strategy

Thomson Reuters; Eagan (MN); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible time off

Mental health days

Tuition reimbursement

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in Minnesota seeks a Team Lead, Commercial Strategy to drive analytical excellence for the Small Law Firm segment. You will lead day-to-day support for complex deal reviews, mentor Senior Analysts, and shape projects, testing, and process improvements to boost revenue performance.

Base pay in the US ranges with potential annual bonus; hybrid work model with competitive benefits and strong career growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Commercial Strategy, Pricing, Finance, Analytics, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success at Senior Analyst level with independent judgement.
• Ability to balance stakeholder needs and make decisions under pressure.
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and clear communication to senior leadership.
• Proven ability to mentor, coach, and elevate team performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced deal analysis and translate data into strategic recommendations.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex pricing and commercial scenarios.
• Champion adherence to pricing strategy, policy, governance, and approvals.
• Mentor and onboard Senior Analysts to build analytical rigor.
• Drive special projects, testing, and tool enhancements.
• Identify process improvements and maintain audit-ready documentation.
• Own compliance activities and reporting requirements.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Pricing strategy

Mentoring

Tools

Salesforce

Conga

Job description

The Team Lead, Commercial Strategy drives analytical excellence for the Small Law Firm segment—leading day-to-day support for complex deal reviews, serving as the go-to resource for escalations, and mentoring Senior Analysts to build a stronger, more capable team. This role is central to shaping the projects, testing initiatives, and process improvements that keep the business consistent, efficient, compliant, and positioned for stronger revenue performance.

Success in this role shows up in measurable impact: faster exceptions velocity, sharper identification of revenue leakage (and the fixes to match), and a stronger, better-coached Senior Analyst team. Beyond day-to-day execution, the Team Lead helps set direction—leading policy creation, KPI/OKR reporting, and qualitative studies that translate directly into better commercial outcomes.

About The Role

As Team Lead, Commercial Strategy, you will:

• Lead advanced deal analysis, turning complex data into clear, strategic recommendations for the business
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex pricing and commercial scenarios, bringing clarity and sound judgment to high-stakes decisions
• Champion adherence to pricing strategy, policy, governance, and approval standards across the team
• Mentor, train, and onboard Senior Analysts—building bench strength and analytical rigor across the group
• Drive special projects, user acceptance testing, and tool enhancements that expand what the team can deliver
• Identify and act on process improvement opportunities, maintaining the documentation that keeps the team sharp and audit-ready
• Own compliance activities and reporting requirements, ensuring the team is always prepared for review

About You

You're a fit for the role of Team Lead, Commercial Strategy if your background includes:

• 5+ years of experience in Commercial Strategy, Pricing, Finance, Analytics, or a related field
• Demonstrated success operating at the Senior Analyst level or equivalent, with a track record of sound, independent judgment
• Skilled at balancing competing stakeholder needs while making confident, well-reasoned decisions under pressure
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, paired with the ability to clearly communicate deal status, risk, and opportunity to senior leadership
• Proven ability to mentor, coach, and influence peers to elevate team performance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in SaaS, legal, or subscription-based business models
• Familiarity with CRM, SalesForce and Conga applications
• Ability to effectively deploy AI tools and approaches to uncover areas to optimize revenue, or passion to learn
• Experience supporting testing, system enhancements, or process automation
• Knowledge of compliance, governance, and audit standards

What’s in it For You

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $91,000 USD - $169,000 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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