Vendor Relationship Manager

About the Position

We're looking for an experienced Vendor Relationship Manager to join our Data Vendor Management team. This team forms and manages our relationships with various financial market data vendors and exchanges.

You will be responsible for negotiating new contracts and ongoing contract renewals, and maintaining the inventory management platform for our contracts, including the cost structure for each.

Managing these processes correctly requires working with several teams across Jane Street, including Legal, HR, Engineering, Accounting/Finance, and other business areas, to ensure that new contracts are fully understood and vetted, invoices are processed on time, and colleague requests for new data vendors and services are heard and considered.

You will also help with usage reporting and audits to ensure that our team continues to best meet the needs of the firm.

About You

• Strong experience with vendor negotiation and relationship management - especially exchanges in Asia
• Motivated self-starter who can handle competing, time-sensitive priorities
• Working knowledge of FITS, MDSL, or INFOmatch inventory system preferred
• Strategic thinker who can apply critical analysis to make decisions and solve problems
• Excellent writing and people skills; shares information and explains ideas clearly
• Fluency in English and Mandarin required