Business Partner – R&D Business Excellence; RBE

Position: Business Partner – R&D Business Excellence (RBE)

Business Partner – R&D Business Excellence (RBE)

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Job Description

• The DD&T Business Partner for R&D Business Excellence (RBE) is a strategic role responsible for ensuring that digital, data, and technology capabilities fully support the priorities of the RBE organization. RBE functions span strategy and operations, finance, global portfolio strategy, and external innovation—areas that depend on strong data foundations, integrated processes, and adaptable digital capabilities. The Business Partner ensures these needs are fully understood and reflected in DD&T’s strategy, planning, and delivery.
• This role provides thought leadership in how digital and data solutions can enhance RBE’s effectiveness and long‑term success. As RBE teams lead critical activities such as driving operational excellence, enabling strategic financial planning and analytics, supporting portfolio governance, and advancing external innovation, the Business Partner plays a central role in ensuring that digital and data capabilities evolve to meet these needs.
  
  The position anticipates future business requirements, identifies areas where technology can improve efficiency or decision‑making, and ensures that DD&T initiatives align with RBE’s broader strategic vision.
• The Business Partner also plays a vital role in connecting business strategy with technology execution. By bringing together business insight and technical fluency across DD&T’s strategic planning and delivery cycles, the role ensures that digital and data solutions meaningfully advance business processes while establishing a scalable platform for future growth.

How you will contribute Business Partnering

• The Business Partner serves as the primary DD&T advisor to RBE leadership, developing a strong understanding of the processes, decisions, and challenges across each business group. Through ongoing engagement with leaders in strategy and operations, finance, portfolio management, and external innovation, the Business Partner ensures that business needs are accurately captured and translated into actionable digital and data priorities. They act as the bridge between business teams and DD&T delivery organizations, ensuring that plans, expectations, and outcomes remain aligned.

Strategy

& Roadmap Development

• A core responsibility of the role is shaping the digital, data, and technology roadmap for RBE. The Business Partner works with functional leaders to identify opportunities where improved data quality, analytics, workflow efficiencies, or modernized digital capabilities can create meaningful value. This involves supporting the definition of future‑state processes and ensuring that DD&T roadmaps reflect RBE’s priorities while staying aligned with broader R&D and enterprise strategies.

Process

Enablement & Optimization (In Partnership with Business Owners)

• While the Business Partner does not own RBE’s business processes, they play an important role in partnering with functional leaders to identify where digital or data enhancements can improve operational effectiveness. This includes helping evaluate current‑state workflows, diagnosing friction points, and identifying opportunities where technology can enhance transparency, accuracy, or efficiency. The Business Partner guides the translation of these opportunities into well‑defined DD&T requirements and collaborates with teams throughout implementation to ensure solutions meet intended business outcomes.

Stakeholder

Management

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