Vice President, Data Strategy – REIS, INC – White Plains, NY

Since 1980 Reis has been the leading provider of commercial real estate market and transaction support information nationwide. Reis serves any firm with exposure to commercial real estate risk in the form of debt or equity and is considered the “Industry Standard” throughout the Banking, Investment Banking, Appraisal, and Insurance industries.

Reis is dedicated to bringing the most accurate and timely information to commercial real estate professionals through our cutting-edge web-based platform offering thousands of proprietary reports as well as custom consulting solutions.

Vice President, Data Strategy– White Plains, NY

What You’ll Do:

The Vice President, Data Strategy will be responsible for driving strategy, vision and execution of a comprehensive enterprise data management program that enables company growth, monetization, profitability and internal efficiencies through source identification, content acquisition, intake, data cleansing and governance processes.

The ideal candidate will leverage their knowledge of public and third party data sources on the commercial real estate market to support the organization’s growth objectives and evolve our data acquisition strategy.

Specifically, You’ll be:

• Establishing the strategic direction for building a data management program
• Understanding the primary and secondary data landscape for commercial real estate with a familiarity of channels and collection methods
• Assessing the quality and potential benefit of data sources to our product portfolio and customer use cases
• Establishing consistent business processes for the ingestion of source data into the data supply chain and develop business rules and data governance policies to ensure integrity and quality of our foundational data assets
• Championing the value of data as a strategic asset and source of revenue by providing the business with ideas for monetization and transform those ideas into actions.
• The leading authority on data management practices; promote the use of new technologies and industry leading trends
• Closing partnership Product and Econometrics to understand future direction and develop plans to proactively evolve our data strategy to meet emerging needs and market opportunities
• Collaborating with IT to ensure proper delivery, storage and usage of the data environment
• Collaborating with contact center operations to ensure execution of targeted phone-based research and data collection
• Preparing executive level communications and reporting to keep the organization apprised of execution against objectives
• Recruiting, developing and retaining a small team of acquisition and data management professionals

Here’s What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree or comparable 10+ years of experience required
• Masters in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or other quantitative field preferred
• Experience in data source identification and acquisition through, but not limited to; 3rd Party, Web Scraping, Alliance Partnerships, Public Record sources, RSS Feeds in structured and unstructured formats
• Familiarity with industry-leading data matching and data integration tools, technologies and processes
• Proven business process management skills including planning, organizational, budgeting, and time management skills
• Strong experience in internal and external stakeholder engagement and communications, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of the commercial real estate market and supporting data sources a must