Vice President, Technology

For the role of **Vice President, Technology - Partnerships and M&A**, we are seeking an experienced thought leader who brings the right mix of technical acumen, commercial experience, and a passion for leading highly visible and complex projects/initiatives.

This individual will be recognized as a technology leader, having the unique opportunity to collaborate with:

- Our Partnerships & Alliances organization and the largest technology companies in the world
- Our M&A Integration Management Office on strategic mergers and acquisitions

You will join our CIO organization, a fast-paced, energetic, and high performing team at the heart of Thomson Reuters. In this role, you will provide leadership to business stakeholders and technology teams on strategic initiatives to drive revenue growth for Thomson Reuters. Uniquely, we are targeting a senior leader that can pivot from vision development to tactical problem-solving when required.

**About the Role**

In this opportunity as **Vice President, Technology - Partnerships and M&A**, you will:

- Lead the evaluation of potential partnerships and co-sell opportunities, influence feasibility and how to commercially operationalize
- Collaborate with product and technology leaders across TR to understand their priorities and strategy
- Be intimately aware of and help drive TR’s multi-year vendor strategy
- Provide strategic and technical guidance to senior management, business technology project teams and functional organizations
- Thought leader who provides strategic direction during team meetings and executive workshops
- Prepares strategic updates and vision documents, briefings, and reports, and demonstrates excellent communication skills and executive presence in presentations to TR executives, customers, and partners
- Define and lead the approach to our technical partnership strategies
- Provide overall technical leadership surrounding integration estimates and synergies associated with potential acquisitions
- Have a dotted line relationship with the Head of Partnerships & Alliances and serve as a member of their extended leadership team

**About You**

You're a fit for the role of **Vice President, Technology - Partnerships and M&A** if your background includes:
**Behaviors and Ways of Working**:

- Experience acting as a change agent, driving continuous improvement and excellence
- Experience leading large, transformational, multi-year programs within a complex, matrix environment
- Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-changing, and innovative environment
- Demonstrates the ability to employ judgement and experience to make rapid, complex decisions
- Ability to influence others, earn followership, and drive consensus across different stakeholder groups
- The ability to flex styles of work well with a range of personalities from extremely technical to non-technical business leaders
- Empathetic and effective change agent
- Take ownership, acting with accountability and urgency

**Experience**:

- Comfortable at all levels of an organization with the ability to communicate clearly
- A minimum of 15+ years of progressive technology leadership experience
- A deep and fundamental technology heritage that will gain the respect of the top technologists within TR and across the broader industry
- Commercial experience negotiating large scale enterprise contracts with vendors and/or customers
- Collaborating with product/strategy owners to drive increased sales and revenue

**What's in it For You?**

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
**Hybrid Work Model**: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

**Wellbeing**: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

**Culture**:Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

**Learning & Development**:LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

**Social Impact**:Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

**Purpose Driven Work**:We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the