About the Business
LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
About the Role
The Director, Data Acquisition provides strategic leadership in identifying, evaluating, securing, and managing external data assets that advance the Life Insurance and Healthcare strategy. The Director oversees the third-party data portfolio supporting these verticals, partners with vertical leaders to set data acquisition priorities, creates business opportunities, and leads complex commercial and supplier decisions. As an Enabling Leader, the Director sets a clear vision, empowers diverse cross-functional teams to deliver through influence, communicates with impact, leads inclusively, and builds trusted relationships across product, analytics, legal, compliance, finance, technology, and senior leadership.
This role can be remote in the US or hybrid from Alpharetta, GA.
Responsibilities
- Setting and executing the data acquisition strategy, priorities, operating model, and measurable outcomes aligned with the Life Insurance and Healthcare vertical leads.
- Managing a portfolio of existing 3rd party relationships, including managing contracts, relationships and business opportunities.
- Identifying and prioritizing new data acquisition and partnership opportunities that strengthen product differentiation, commercial value, and sustainable growth.
- Leading supplier relationships, complex negotiations, and contract decisions while balancing value, risk, resilience, and long-term flexibility.
- Overseeing the full supplier and data lifecycle, including due diligence, evaluation, onboarding, governance, performance management, renewals, and issue resolution.
- Partnering across product, vertical, legal, compliance, finance, technology, and senior leadership to build alignment, share expertise, and accelerate decisions.
- Developing compelling business cases, recommendations, and executive communications grounded in market insight, data, and objective analysis.
- Anticipating emerging risks and opportunities, adapting priorities as conditions change, and continuously improving processes and ways of working.
- Providing strategic direction for cross functional teams while maintaining accountability for sustainable business and operational results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business or risk management, preferred
- Minimum 10 years related work experience,
- Established relationships and a strong professional network within the healthcare data industry
- Experience supporting data-driven products and solutions in the healthcare or life insurance industry strongly preferred
- Clear understanding of HIPAA and FCRA regulatory obligations
- Experienced with business development
- Proven success with complex contract negotiations
- Proven success managing external data and vendor relationships
- Proven success working with multiple functional areas
- Highly organized, self-motivated, and capable of working in a dynamic environment with minimal supervision.
- Strong research, financial analysis, business influence skills
- Solid collaboration and communication skills, that enable clear interaction with all levels of the organization
- Executive presence, professional presentation skills
- Understanding of technology and database applications
- Detail orientated
- Ability to handle multiple issues concurrently in a dynamic environment.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business or risk management
- Minimum 10 years of related work experience
- Established relationships and a strong professional network within the healthcare data industry
- Experience supporting data-driven products and solutions in healthcare or life insurance
- Understanding of HIPAA and FCRA regulatory obligations
- Business development experience
- Success with complex contract negotiations
- Experience managing external data and vendor relationships
- Experience working with multiple functional areas
- Strong research, financial analysis, and business influence skills
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Executive presence and professional presentation skills
- Understanding of technology and database applications
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic environment and manage multiple issues concurrently
RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.
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What We Do
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.
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