This is a senior individual contributor role with significant cross-functional influence. The successful candidate will be expected to lead vendor negotiations, manage licensing compliance, and deliver a multi-year improvement project, while transitioning new capabilities into business-as-usual operations.Role OutcomesLead the delivery of the Market Data Consolidation project, including vendor renegotiations, centralisation of feeds via the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), and implementation of a Market Data Management (MDM) tool and data catalogue.Manage strategic vendor relationships and lead contract negotiations with the "Big 6" providers and over 100 smaller suppliers.Oversee the full market data budget, identifying and delivering cost savings through usage optimisation, contract consolidation, and improved governance.Establish a centralised market data distribution model, ensuring consistent, timely access to data across the business.Perform detailed feed-level analysis across vendors, comparing coverage, timeliness, granularity, and cost to identify duplication, gaps, and consolidation opportunities across pricing, reference, index, and analytics data.Use SQL and data analytics to interrogate market data usage, lineage, and consumption patterns within Snowflake/EDP, identifying optimisation opportunities and unused or overlapping entitlements.Identify synergies and rationalisation opportunities between market data feeds, platforms, and downstream consumers, driving simp