Principal Data Vendor Partner Manager in London

Join some of the most innovative thinkers in FinTech as we lead the evolution of financial technology. If you are an innovative, curious, collaborative person who embraces challenges and wants to grow, learn and pursue outcomes with our prestigious financial clients, say Hello to SimCorp!

At its foundation, SimCorp is guided by our values — caring, customer success-driven, collaborative, curious, and courageous. Our people-centered organization focuses on skills development, relationship building, and client success. We take pride in cultivating an environment where all team members can grow, feel heard, valued, and empowered.

WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT FOR US

Data is one of the most strategic levers in our transformation. As we shift toward a technology-enabled services model, the right external data partnerships amplify our product innovation, operational efficiency, and commercial momentum. We are expanding our Product Partnerships function and seeking an experienced Data Vendor Partner Manager who views vendor relationships not as procurement exercises, but as high‐leverage ecosystem enablers. This role will be central to shaping how SimCorp builds composable, data-rich products for the next decade. You will orchestrate relationships across a diverse vendor landscape, ensuring that we select, contract, track, and grow the partnerships that truly move the needle.

The role reports to the Global Head of Product Partnerships and sits within a small, high‐impact team working closely with Product, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Operations and Engineering stakeholders.

WHAT YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Shape the data vendor landscape — Identify, assess, and prioritise high‐value data partnerships that directly influence our product roadmap and client value.
• Drive strategic negotiations — Architect and negotiate commercial structures that balance scalability, cost efficiency, and long‐term partnership health.
• Lead high‐momentum engagements — Orchestrate complex, multi‐stakeholder interactions across Product, Commercial, Legal, Operations and Engineering to keep decisions moving and unblock progress.
• Ensure commercial clarity & compliance — Maintain transparency of spend, usage, licensing models and risk, enabling confidence in our partner posture across the organization.
• Elevate partnership performance — Build strong, trusted relationships with data vendors and continuously evaluate fit, service delivery whilst maintaining situational awareness of suitable alternatives.

WHAT WE VALUE

• Has 5+ years of experience in data vendor licensing, ideally with experience at a data vendor, exchange or index provider.
• Able to confidently draft contract changes based on a deep understanding of contract elements and associated risk management; a law degree is beneficial.
• Learns new functional domains quickly and can articulate their core characteristics, including data needs.
• Architects partnership-centric deals — rethinking structures, pricing models and incentives from first principles.
• Uses AI as a practical working tool across research, contracting and communications.
• Writes with precision and communicates clearly in both verbal and written form.
• Has well‐developed analytical and structured problem‐solving capabilities.
• Demonstrates disciplined project management and tenacious stakeholder orchestration.
• Thrives in ambiguity, creates structure, and acts quickly.
• Collaborates effectively and navigates large organizations with ease.

BENEFITS

Attractive salary, bonus scheme, and pension are essential for any work agreement. However, in SimCorp we believe we can offer more. Therefore, in addition to the traditional benefit scheme, we provide a good work-life balance: flexible working hours and a hybrid model. Simcorp follows a global hybrid policy, asking employees to work from the office two days each week while allowing remote work on other days. Simcorp does offer opportunities for professional development: there is never just only one route - we offer an individual approach to professional development to support the direction you want to take.

NEXT STEP

Please send us your application in English via our career site as soon as possible, we process incoming applications continually. Please note that only applications sent through our system will be processed. At SimCorp, we recognize that bias can unintentionally occur in the recruitment process. To uphold fairness and equal opportunities for all applicants, we kindly ask you to exclude personal data such as photo, age, or any non-professional information from your application. Thank you for aiding us in our endeavor to mitigate biases in our recruitment process.

If you are interested in being a part of SimCorp but are not sure this role is suitable, submit your CV anyway. SimCorp is on an exciting growth journey, and our Talent Acquisition Team is ready to assist you discover the right role for you. The approximate time to consider your CV is three weeks.

We are eager to continually improve our talent acquisition process and make everyone’s experience positive and valuable. Therefore, during the process we will ask you to provide your feedback, which is highly appreciated.

WHO WE ARE

For over 50 years, we have worked closely with investment and asset managers to become the world’s leading provider of integrated investment management solutions. We are 3,000+ colleagues with a broad range of nationalities, educations, professional experiences, ages, and backgrounds. SimCorp is an independent subsidiary of the Deutsche Börse Group. Following the recent merger with Axioma, we leverage the combined strength of our brands to provide an industry-leading, full, front-to-back offering for our clients. SimCorp is an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds, without regard to race, gender, age, disability, or any other protected status under applicable law. We are committed to building a culture where diverse perspectives and expertise are integrated into our everyday work. We believe in the continual growth and development of our employees, so that we can provide best-in-class solutions to our clients.