Job Description:

About the Role:

As Vice President - Commercial Strategic Initiatives on the Dow Jones Energy Strategy & Operations team, your role will be central to executing the division’s growth and operational strategy. You will have a primary focus on driving the commercial success of integration initiatives and incubating new strategic opportunities. You will ensure that strategic plans translate into rigorous, commercially sound, and customer-centric execution across the business. You will report directly to the General Manager - Dow Jones Energy.

About the Team:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex – OPIS makes it simpler.

 

You Will:

• Lead the commercial integration of existing businesses, ensuring a seamless and value-maximizing alignment of product, sales, marketing, and operational functions

• Identify, scope, and develop proposals for new strategic initiatives that align with the division’s long-term growth objectives, presenting data-backed recommendations to the SVP and Energy leadership team

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Technology, Sales, and Finance to translate strategic mandates into actionable commercial plans and ensure operational readiness to support integrated offerings

• Develop, monitor, and report on key commercial metrics and integration milestones, providing timely insights to the SVP on progress, risks, and required interventions

• Apply strong financial and commercial acumen to evaluate the feasibility and potential return on investment for new strategic and integration projects

• Partner with operational teams to leverage technology and AI-driven insights to improve go-to-market processes and enhance the commercial customer experience

• Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders across Dow Jones to drive alignment and secure resources for strategic and integration priorities

• Prepare materials, analysis, and recommendations for divisional planning, governance meetings, and board-level presentations on strategy and integration performance

You Have:

• 15+ years’ progressive experience in strategy, business development, commercial operations, or management consulting, ideally within the energy, technology, or data/information services sectors

• Proven, hands-on experience in leading commercial integration or post-merger management workstreams, with a strong understanding of sales, product, and channel integration

• Demonstrated ability to analyze markets, business models, and financial performance to identify and drive commercially viable strategic opportunities

• Experience articulating complex strategies to senior executives and cross-functional teams.

• Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Finance, related field -OR- equivalent work experience

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in a global or complex matrix organization

• Familiarity with leveraging AI/machine learning for commercial insights or process optimization

• Prior experience in a direct reporting structure to an SVP or C-level executive

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - OPIS

Job Category:

General Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $245,000 - $295,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..