Assistant Director - Content Acquisition Licensing - Partnerships

Location(s): The Alexandra 200-220, The Quays, Salford, M50 3SP, GB

Line Of Business: Data Estate(DE)

Job Category: Operations

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

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Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced and strategic media partnerships professional to help define, develop, and execute our content partnership strategy for the [US / UK / APAC] region. As an Assistant Director of Media Content Partnerships, you will be responsible for identifying, managing, and optimising relationships with regional media and information providers - both licensed and publicly available sources. This role requires strong cross-functional collaboration with product, operations, legal, ensure alignment of information provider rights with business goals, operational efficiency, and content compliance.

You will play a key role in expanding our regional media coverage, driving content quality and relevance, and supporting long-term growth through scalable, strategic partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Analyse a growing network of information providers to identify high-value media publishers, aggregators, and data sources for strategic licensing opportunities.
• Lead regional content discovery and evaluation efforts, sourcing a diverse range of media types - including traditional news, regulatory filings, court documents, transcripts, and emerging content formats - to meet evolving business requirements.
• Research and respond to new content requests based on shifting product priorities and market needs.
• Own engagement, negotiation, and contractual workflows in close collaboration with legal and other internal stakeholders.
• Partner with product and business teams to ensure content partnerships and usage rights align with product use cases and customer expectations.
• Collaborate with operations and engineering to support the efficient onboarding and integration of new data sources.
• Act as a liaison between external content providers and internal teams to address and resolve data delivery or quality issues.
• Monitor assigned IPs and media sources for usage trends, including outages, paywalls, and changes to terms and conditions, and track and escalate any issues - such as disruptions, volume declines, or feed degradation - that may impact content continuity and integrity.
• Define and support QA, monitoring, reporting, royalty payment, and ingest requirements, engaging with product engineering teams as needed to optimise workflows.
• Ensure data governance and compliance with sourcing, ingestion, and usage guidelines; uphold ethical and regulatory standards and communicate terms of use to product and sales teams.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate/first-level degree (e.g., Bachelor’s) or graduate/second-level degree (e.g. MBA, Master’s) with an emphasis in finance, economics, accounting, math, or related experience.
• 5-7+ year(s) of experience in the areas of content acquisition, governance, and compliance.
• Experience with media licensing a big plus.
• Experience with GenAI in the content acquisition and right management framework a plus.
• Multiple languages preferred.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Results oriented.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to work as an individual contributor as well as a part of a larger team.
• Superb analytical skills and persistence in problem solving.
• Demonstrated initiative, enthusiasm to learn, excel and be a part of a dynamic team.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.