Technology Business Partner

Description

The Technology Business Partner is responsible for supporting the strategic partnership between Information Technology and all LDI businesses. This role serves as the primary liaison between business and technology teams, creating and executing technology roadmaps that advance business strategy.

Supporting five unique businesses, this position ensures alignment of priorities, expectations, and solution delivery timelines between business leaders and technology teams. The Technology Business Partner also leads projects and participates in key business and technology initiatives.

This position reports to the Chief Information Officer at LDI Headquarters in New Hope, Minnesota.

• Build trusted relationships with business leaders and serve as a strategic advisor on technology, data, process improvement, and digital opportunities.
• Develop a strong understanding of business functions, including their strategies, processes, goals, challenges, and performance drivers.
• Participate in business planning discussions to identify where technology can enable growth, efficiency, improved customer experience, or better decision-making.
• Translate business priorities into technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Proactively bring forward ideas and capabilities that could create measurable business value.
• Partner with leaders to develop and maintain technology roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Identify gaps between current capabilities and future business needs.
• Lead and participate in the evaluation of technology solutions and opportunities based on business value, strategic alignment, risk, cost, and organizational readiness.
• Promote thoughtful adoption of digital capabilities where they can improve business outcomes.
• Develop business cases that clearly articulate expected benefits, costs, risks, and desired outcomes.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions when business demand exceeds available resources or investments.
• Partner with IT delivery teams and business stakeholders to maintain visibility into initiative status.
• Facilitate discussions across functions when solutions require broader organizational alignment.
• Help business leaders understand technology opportunities, constraints, tradeoffs, and risks.
• Influence stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
• Champion change and drive adoption of new and existing technology solutions.
• Lead projects, including management of scope, resources, budgets, risks, and timelines.
• Participate in acquisition, integration, and business expansion activities.
• Travel to various locations, including Mexico, approximately 15% of the time.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in information technology, business systems, business relationship management, or a related discipline.
• Experience working directly with senior business leaders on business and technology priorities.
• Experience serving as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams.
• Strong understanding of business processes and proven ability to connect technology capabilities with business outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience developing technology strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and investment recommendations.
• Strong facilitation, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex cross-functional decisions.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects and initiatives from planning through execution.
• Proven ability to lead projects to successful completion utilizing internal and external resources.

• Experience in manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, or another operationally complex environment.
• Experience with ERP, CRM, MES, workflow tools, analytics/business intelligence, automation, AI, cloud technologies, or other enterprise applications.
• Experience supporting digital transformation or significant business process improvement initiatives.
• Familiarity with portfolio management, project delivery, and organizational change practices.
• Bilingual Spanish

The starting base salary range for this position is $116,683 - $145,854 per year. The compensation posted is the anticipated pay for the position at the time of the posting. We may pay above or below posted amount based on several factors,…