IT Business Partner

Chesterfield + Home working

Circa £70k - £90k + Bonus + Car Allowance

Your new role

This is a brilliant opportunity to serve as the strategic interface within an assigned business area, for the purpose of technology strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management and overall relationship management.

You will build strong working relationships with senior leaders to inspire, innovate and prioritise a backlog of activities to maximise company investment in IT.

Your new role

Own business area stakeholder management, developing key relationships to be able to influence, support and challenge when understanding functions priorities

Accountable for IT service outcomes and prioritise problem management activities to improve performance

Build alignment using roadmaps to ensure project priorities are clear and these flow through the IT delivery processes effectively

Define the scope and requirements of initiatives identified in the roadmaps to work with IT architects on and build approach plans and Capital Proposals (scope, benefits, cost and timeline) which can be transitioned into the IT delivery team for execution

Deploy process and procedures in support of business change associated with the IT initiatives to help ensure adoption of the change and realisation of benefits

Represent Group IT in business function leadership forums

Manage the cost effectiveness of IT services to the business by identifying and delivering saving opportunities while staying aligned to the overall agreed technology roadmap, ensuring savings are made in line with budget

Support the achievement of our sustainability plan through leading with a sustainability mindset

Support the achievement of our Inclusion and Diversity aspirations through role modelling and personally leading and hiring inclusively, embracing and encouraging diversity

Implement and ensure compliance with our data management and governance policies, procedures and/or guidance governance approaches so that associated risks are mitigated and managed

Experience needed

From a manufacturing or logistics background

Variety of project delivery experience, breadth working cross functionally, experience of agile project management

High level of technical understanding to interpret technical issues for the business and sustain credibility with IT

Understands, explains and presents complex technical roadmaps, priority planning and estimations to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels up to the highest in a persuasive and convincing manner

Ability to translate business vision into executable IT / Business deliverables that can be delivered incrementally to maintain pace and manage the level of business change

Stakeholder Management skills, anticipates and tailors' approach to individuals, tenacious in the face of setback, and able to build support and influence through both formal and informal channels

Demonstrates sound practical knowledge of business processes, business requirements elicitation, process redesign and change management

Demonstrates sound practical knowledge of technical disciplines e.g. process re-design, systems development, and service / project delivery

Ability to translate business needs into compelling IT visions to generate commitment, and then transition into IT application solutions

Experience handling a remote and/or distributed team. Anticipates and understands the strengths and gaps of the team and takes action to ensure success and supports development & succession for the future.

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