Future of Professionals Director/Sr Director(Hybrid/Remote)

Company: Thomson Reuters
Location: Saint Paul
Posted on: August 4, 2022

Job Description:

Role: Director/Sr. Director - Future of Professionals

Reports to: Chief Strategy Officer

Location: Remote, or Minneapolis-St. Paul, Dallas, Toronto, Zug

Are you passionate about the key trends shaping professional work? Do you want to be on the leading edge of identifying trends and driving tangible influence within Thomson Reuters and with customers? The Future of Professionals role is responsible for driving thought leadership on the trends driving the evolution of professional work, across our industries and geographies, and ensuring internal and external stakeholders benefit from these insights.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Future of Professionals Director/Sr Director, you will:

Strategic Research + Planning (Thought Leadership):

Provide thought leadership on the 'Future of Professionals' to shape Thomson Reuters' investment priorities across Legal, Tax & Accounting, Corporates, Risk, Fraud & Compliance, ESG, and additional verticals/adjacencies:

• Drive 1st party research, and leverage 3rd party research, to identify the key trends impacting the evolution of professional work, including the identification of high-value emerging scenarios and declining scenarios
• Drive and facilitate direct customer conversations to share Thomson Reuters' perspectives and learn from our customers on the key trends shaping current and future investments
• Present at relevant company events (internal and external) on the topic of Future of Professionals and implications for stakeholders
  Influence Thomson Reuters Investment Priorities:
  
  • Coordinate with, and influence, Product and Segment teams to ensure future priorities and investments are informed by customer insights
  • Provide key customer insights into Segment-level Strategy leaders for 'North Star' visions
  • Provide customer insights into product roadmap and capital planning process
    Bespoke Strategy Research Projects:
    
    To inform Strategic Planning activities:
    
    • Partner with Strategy Leadership Team to define bespoke research and/or updates to recurring research to solicit customer feedback on specific strategic topics
    • Partner with Market Insights team to coordinate research activity to inform activities above
    • Partner with Market/Competitive Intelligence team to bring together market sizing and competitive insights with customer insights, to collaborate on identification and prioritization of industry trends
      About You
      
      You're a fit for the role of Future of Professionals Director/Sr Director if your background includes:
      
      • Proven ability to identify and communicate market trends and distill key insights for decision making
      • Experience designing and executing on market research, including qualitative and quantitative methods
      • Experience using research and trend analysis to drive influence into product planning, partnership and M&A identification, and overall investment prioritization
      • Experience presenting to senior level audiences, both internally, and externally (including to customers)
      • Proven ability to produce high-quality written materials for senior-level consumption
      • Bachelors degree required in relevant discipline
      • 7-10+ years of relevant work experience
        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:
        
        • COVID-19 Response: Currently the majority of our employees are working within a hybrid environment consisting of in-office and remote work, and following local COVID-19 bylaws and guidelines.
        • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
        • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: company-wide Mental Health Days Off; Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
        • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters caf-- networking
        • Social Impact: Eight 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 only companies on the planet 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.
          
          
          Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
          
          We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
          
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