# Global Data Acquisition Lead

**Company**: ICIS
**Location**: London Wall
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: €82,800 - €137,800 or €64,600 - €107,900
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Global Data Acquisition Lead to expand and strengthen our data assets, ensuring acquisition priorities align with business strategy and commercial objectives.

The successful candidate will lead global data acquisition activities from opportunity identification through to execution and production, building strategic partnerships that enhance ICIS' competitive advantage and create long-term customer value.

**Responsibilities**

- Define and execute the data acquisition strategy aligned to ICIS business priorities and growth objectives.

- Identify and source external datasets and proprietary data assets that strengthen ICIS' competitive advantage.

- Maintain a strong view of the data landscape, identifying emerging sources, market developments and partnership opportunities.

- Partner with product, content and analytics teams to translate business needs into acquisition priorities.

- Manage a pipeline of data acquisition opportunities from sourcing through diligence, contracting and onboarding.

- Manage third-party data portfolio, including spend, rights, renewals and supplier performance.

- Ensure compliance with licensing, privacy and regulatory requirements.

**Requirements**

- Experience in data acquisitions, alternative data research, partnerships, business development, or a similar role focused on external datasets.

- Strong understanding and experience working with the alternative data ecosystem and good judgment around what makes a dataset valuable, differentiated, and difficult to replicate.

- Quantitative background with the ability to perform exploratory data analysis using Python and SQL.

- Experience working closely with research or engineering teams to determine whether a dataset is worth testing, integrating, or purchasing.

- Understanding of the data lifecycle (ingestion, quality, metadata, governance) and the ability to establish evaluation criteria with engineering teams.

- Familiarity with delivery mechanisms such as APIs, cloud data sharing, and file-based distribution, including their rights and cost implications.

- Strong commercial acumen, business analysis skills, matrix leadership experience, and the ability to assess privacy, compliance, usage, and redistribution rights while managing multiple vendor relationships and negotiations.

- Commodities or energy market domain knowledge.

**Salary Information**

- If performed in certain locations, the base pay range is €82,800 - €137,800 or €64,600 - €107,900.

**Benefits**

- Country-specific benefits are available. Please click here to access benefits specific to your location.

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- data acquisition
- alternative data research
- partnerships
- business development

### Nice to have
- commodities market domain knowledge
- energy market domain knowledge

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