Digital, Data, & IT Business Partner, Acute Care

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Location:

Minneapolis, MN, US

Job Family:
Information Technology

Country/Region:
United States

Job Function Summary
The IT Business Partner has a dual role serving both as a strategic advisor linking Digital, Data & IT with the business need in the BU/Function to drive growth, innovation and transformation and overseeing the activities within the BU/Function.

Key elements of the role:

Strategic Alignment: Translates business strategies into clear, accountable DD&IT outcomes, ensuring organizational commitment to shared priorities.

Business Partnering and Program Leadership: Acts as a trusted advisor to senior executives, manages DD&IT portfolios, leads programs within the BU/Function and drives collaboration across business units to deliver timely, value-driven solutions.

Stakeholder Engagement: Builds strong relationships with governance bodies, executives, and external vendors, effectively communicating the benefits and priorities of DD&IT initiatives.

The Business Partner acts as a thought leader and champions future-oriented solutions, fosters cross-functional collaboration, and ensures that DD&IT investments deliver measurable business value.

Major Areas of Accountability

Strategic Alignment

• Translate business strategies into accountable and measurable DD&IT outcomes.
• Ensure alignment and organizational commitment to shared goals and priorities.

Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted advisor to BU EVP and senior leadership, embedding business perspectives into DD&IT roadmaps
• Manage intake and prioritization of business requests, coordinating with architects, delivery teams
• Shape and own the DD&IT portfolio for the BU´s, lead programs in the BU/Function and ensures transparency in scope, funding, and value realization
• Drive seamless collaboration between business units and process excellence, and enterprise architecture
• Provide technology advisory, identifying opportunities to innovate and create business value through emerging technologies
• Elicit, analyse, and document business needs, processes, and requirements in collaboration with stakeholders
• Support business in translating requirements into user stories, functional specifications, and acceptance criteria for delivery teams
• Facilitate workshops (e.g., requirement sessions, process design, and solution validation) and ensure alignment across stakeholders
• Support solution evaluation by partnering with architects and product teams to assess options, impacts, dependencies, and risks
• Define and track benefit and KPI measures together with the business to support value realisation and continuous improvement.

Program Management

• Lead global programs within the area of responsibility
• Define program scope, objectives, and success metrics in collaboration with the leadership team in the relevant area.
• Lead steering committee sessions and prepare stakeholder updates.
• Set direction and governance, managing interdependence and risks.
• Ensure timely delivery of solutions that meet business objectives and compliance standards.
• Appoint and manage multiple cross-functional teams organized in program tracks including DD&IT Project managers, Business PMs, Solution Architects, and external vendors.
• Develop and maintain program roadmaps with clear milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation plans.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Foster strong relationships with governance bodies and senior stakeholders to drive alignment on priorities, resources, and timelines
• Communicate value propositions and long-term benefits of DD&IT initiatives to business leaders, including BU/Function leadership teams
• Lead communication efforts across program phases, including change management and training.

Organizational Enablement & Change Leadership

• Set overall direction for the programs within scope and ensure effective execution and value generation
• Empower project managers to operate effectively in strategic contexts
• Act as a change agent to embed enterprise-wide strategic initiatives and promote a culture of digital transformation.

Communication and stakeholder interaction:

Internal stakeholders – Executive Leadership (ELT-1);
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