Data & Analytics Business Partner, Reuters
Job Description
We're looking for a Data & Analytics Business Partner to join the Reuters business, helping teams shape, prioritise, govern, and deliver data initiatives that drive better business outcomes, greater efficiency, sharper customer insight, stronger product performance, and the responsible use of data and AI.
As an individual contributor with no direct reports, you'll work across key Reuters business areas, including Product, Technology, Commercial, Finance, and Strategy & Operations. You'll lead the rhythm of the Reuters Data Forum, driving prioritisation, coordination, governance, and delivery tracking, while building trusted stakeholder partnerships and championing clear, structured decision-making and transparent delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Build Trusted Cross-Functional Relationships
- Build strong working relationships across Reuters business areas, including Product, Technology, Commercial, Finance, and Strategy & Operations.
- Act as the day-to-day D&A partner, helping stakeholders frame questions, clarify decisions, and connect to the right data, analytics, engineering, governance, or product expertise.
- Help build a consistent Reuters-wide data culture through shared definitions, clearer priorities, and greater confidence in decision data.
Lead the Data Forum and Shape Shared Priorities
- Lead and facilitate the Reuters Data Forum, creating a transparent route to review requests, priorities, capacity, and trade-offs.
- Translate forum discussions into a prioritised backlog, agreed actions, named owners, timelines, dependencies, and success measures.
- Maintain visibility of outcomes, delivery status, risks, blockers, and escalations so leaders can make informed trade-offs.
Translate Reuters Business Needs into Data Priorities
- Work with stakeholders to understand the business questions behind requests, including performance, customer and content insight, product adoption, newsroom operations, commercial reporting, and AI enablement.
- Turn business needs into prioritised requirements assessed against capacity, data availability, governance needs, and strategic value.
- Communicate progress, trade-offs, risks, and decisions clearly to senior stakeholders and technical teams.
Deliver Agreed Data Priorities
- Coordinate agreed Reuters D&A priorities from intake through prioritisation, delivery, adoption, and impact review.
- Partner with analytics, engineering, data science, governance, product, and business teams to remove blockers, clarify requirements, and sustain momentum.
- Track progress against success measures, stakeholder expectations, roadmap commitments, and expected business value.
- Provide concise leadership updates on delivery, risks, decisions needed, and trade-offs.
Champion Data Governance & Operational Excellence
- Promote Reuters data governance standards, shared KPI definitions, the data catalogue, D&A Hub, and reusable governed platforms.
- Help stakeholders understand data quality, lineage, definitions, access, privacy, and responsible AI implications before data is used for decisions or automation.
Key Interfaces
- Reuters business stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, Product, Technology.
- D&A teams across analytics, engineering, data science, governance, platform, reporting, and delivery.
- Reuters leadership forums where data priorities, trade-offs, risks, and delivery progress are reviewed.
- Governance, privacy, legal, risk, and responsible AI stakeholders where data use, access, quality, or automation need oversight.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, business partnering, product operations, strategy and operations, or a related role in a complex organisation.
- 7+ years of experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across product, editorial, commercial, technology, data, finance, or strategy teams.
- 5+ years facilitating prioritisation forums, governance meetings, working groups, or cadences that drive decisions, actions, owners, timelines, and accountability.
- 5+ years shaping ambiguous requests into problem statements, decision needs, prioritised requirements, success measures, and delivery-ready briefs.
- Experience managing a prioritised backlog, roadmap, or portfolio from intake through delivery, adoption, and impact review.
- 5+ years working with analytics, data products, reporting, KPIs, governance, data quality, access, privacy, or responsible AI, translating between business and technical audiences.
- Working knowledge of analytics tools, dashboard interpretation, KPI reporting, and modern data platforms, with enough technical fluency to ask the right questions without requiring hands-on expertise.
- 5+ years managing competing priorities, delivery issues, progress tracking, risks, trade-offs, and senior stakeholder communications.
- Experience operating in a fast-moving, matrixed environment with active management of priorities, dependencies, capacity, and timelines.
Preferred Qualifications
- Collaborative and relationship-led, able to build trust across teams with different priorities and operating models.
- Structured and outcome-focused, turning discussion into actions, ownership, timelines, and measurable delivery.
- Comfortable challenging constructively, clarifying trade-offs, and helping stakeholders make prioritisation decisions.
- Clear, concise communicator who adapts messages for senior leaders, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
- Pragmatic and delivery-minded, focused on business value, stakeholder confidence, and continuous improvement.
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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.
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.
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