IT Business Relationship Partner

Job Purpose

The Business Relationship Partner within the IT and Digital Services (IDS) department plays an important role in bridging the gap between technology and business objectives. Working within the BRM team this role is responsible for understanding the strategic needs of a given business unit and translating them into business outcomes, ensuring alignment with the business domain and/or value stream on the overall True North, purpose and goals. The Business Partner will collaborate closely with value stream leaders, sponsors, IDS delivery teams and other technical teams to develop roadmaps and shape demand of new initiatives. This role is non operational and requires analytical broad perspective thinking but with the ability to convert and conclude larger business outcomes into strategic initiatives.

Job Description

• Build strong network and relationships within the business functional teams and/or value streams, understand the business objectives and work to identify Minimal Viable Products to validate business hypothesis statements to ensure value is created.
• Communicate effectively to ensure the successful implementation of the most valuable investments, recognizing that not all initiatives may proceed.
• Identify opportunities to adopt existing technology or identify opportunities for new innovation that still align with larger strategic objectives by collaborating with the Enterprise Architecture team.
• Develop a knowledge of the business units or value streams long-term goals and objectives while creating awareness within IDS of strategic business outcomes
• Contribute to the development of IDS and BRM strategies that support business goals and objectives by collaborating with enterprise architecture.
• Work closely with enterprise architecture to develop and maintain multi-year technology capability roadmaps to support the business plan and business capability development
• Work closely with PMO to ensure a healthy and well-managed initiative portfolio and align to Lean Portfolio Management best practices.
• Responsible for gathering cost base for initiatives and building high quality and reliable business cases leveraging Proof of Concepts and Minimum Viable Products to validate hypothesis statements.
• Communicate with all stakeholders to ensure the adoption of initiatives, be actively involved in ensuring the value is measured and recorded, and identifying and measuring leading indicators for each initiative
• Partner with the delivery teams to execute the investment portfolio, focus on business value instead of solutions.
• Collaborate with other business partners and business relationship managers to identify cross-functional opportunities and challenges
• Constructively work within the wider IDS team to ensure business knowledge is cascaded to the delivery teams. Promote the value of IDS and engage positively to ensure appropriate recognition.

You are meant for this job if:

• Recognized University Degree in IT or technology related subject or proven relevant experience
• Self-motivated with a strong ability to rely on intuition and problem-solving skills to enhance the deliverables of the BRM department.
• 6 to 8 years experience within IT / Software Services / Technology related discipline
• Excellent awareness of IT market & technology changes. Ideally within the Energy industry.
• Change management facilitation and ability to guide and influence acceptance of new processes and use of technology. This includes the people side of change to influence a sponsor coalition and employee managers
• Ability to balance user, stakeholder and technical needs within budgets and demanding timelines
• Business analytical skills (numerical, analytical and critical thinking skills)
• Proficiency in articulating intricate issues in a clear and non-technical manner (written and verbal)
• Willingness to learn and adapt to a LEAN and Agile mindset
• Ability to identify strategic initiatives and develop long-term roadmaps with the value streams and/or business domains
• Fluency in spoken and written English is a prerequisite, encompassing listening, comprehension, reading, and writing skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Efficient working practices and ability to produce deliverables on schedule
• Previous experience as a Project Manager / Business Analysis / Product Owner would be beneficial but not essential

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