Thomson Reuters—Senior Manager, CSA Strategy

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Description: Job Description The Senior Manager, CSA Strategy plays a key role within the Commercial Systems Acceleration team, supporting pre-onboarding activities that prepare new products, commercial models, and capabilities for successful implementation on Thomson Reuters' strategic technology stack. This role partners with Product, Revenue Operations, Finance, Customer-to-Cash, Architecture, and Technology teams to define commercial operating models, document business requirements, map future-state processes, identify capability gaps, and support onboarding readiness. The analyst helps translate complex business concepts into actionable requirements and implementation plans that enable scalable growth and operational excellence. Key Responsibilities Commercial Strategy & Pre-Onboarding Support - Support Gate 1 activities by documenting commercial models, product structures, packaging strategies, pricing approaches, and customer journeys. - Assist in evaluating new products and capabilities for onboarding to the strategic technology stack. - Conduct research and analysis to identify business impacts, dependencies, risks, and operational considerations. - Support development of executive-ready materials, status reports, decision logs, and governance documentation. Process Mapping & Business Requirements - Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders to document current-state and future-state processes. - Create and maintain process maps, workflows, business requirements, and operational design documentation. - Translate business needs into detailed functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. - Support the development and refinement of Azure DevOps epics and features. Stakeholder Coordination - Partner with Product, Sales, Finance, Operations, Customer Success, Architecture, and Technology teams to gather requirements and resolve open questions. - Track decisions, action items, dependencies, risks, and escalations across multiple initiatives. - Coordinate stakeholder reviews, approvals, and sign-off activities. Analysis & Continuous Improvement - Identify opportunities to improve business processes, customer experiences, and operational efficiency. - Support fit-gap analysis between existing capabilities and future-state business requirements. - Analyze data and operational impacts to support business recommendations. - Assist with readiness assessments and onboarding handoff activities. Program Execution - Maintain project artifacts, requirements, repositories, and governance documentation. - Support status reporting and program tracking across multiple products and initiatives. - Support handoff packages for onboarding and implementation teams. - Ensure traceability between business requirements, process designs, decisions, and solution deliverables. Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Operations, Information Systems, or a related field. - 10+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Revenue Operations, Commercial Operations, Sales Operations, Process Improvement, Consulting, or Program Management. - Experience gathering business requirements and documenting process flows. - Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills. - Excellent written and verbal communication with demonstrated stakeholder management abilities. - Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills. Preferred Qualifications - Experience creating process maps using Lucidchart, Visio, or similar tools. - Knowledge of Customer-to-Cash, Sales Operations, CPQ, CRM, ERP, or commercial systems. - Experience supporting business transformation or technology implementation initiatives. - Familiarity with AI, SaaS, subscription, and usage-based commercial models #LI-NG1 What’s in it For You? - Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected. - Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance. - Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. - Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing. - Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together. - Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. - Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally 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. About Us Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. 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. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. 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