IT Business Relationship Manager

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• Build and sustain trusted relationships with executives and senior leaders across HR, Finance, Procurement, and Legal; serve as the primary IT strategic partner and escalation point for the Corporate Services portfolio.
• Translate functional strategies into a multi-year technology investment roadmap, defining target outcomes, sequencing, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Proactively identify, shape, and challenge opportunities for value creation and risk reduction (e.g., compliance, controls, employee experience, financial close, sourcing effectiveness), bringing forward options and recommendations.
• Identify, evaluate, and advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation opportunities to transform business processes, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate value realization across Corporate Services functions.

• Lead portfolio governance processes for Corporate Services, partnering with business and IT executives to define priorities, approve investments, and manage trade-offs across capacity, cost, risk, and value.
• Own and challenge business case development to ensure enterprise alignment, financial rigor (TCO/ROI), delivery feasibility, and clear benefit definition and realization measures.
• Establish and maintain portfolio performance metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting (health, spend, benefits, risks, milestones) to drive transparency and timely decision‑making.
• Drive value realization across the lifecycle—from intake and discovery through delivery handoff and post‑implementation measurement—ensuring accountability for outcomes and adoption.

• Provide oversight for active projects within the Corporate Services portfolio to ensure alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for active projects, partnering with project managers, delivery teams, and business stakeholders to resolve issues, remove roadblocks, and elevate decisions when needed.

• Partner with Corporate Services and IT Finance to manage portfolio budgets, forecasts, capitalization strategy, and cost transparency; ensure investment decisions consider full lifecycle costs and operational impacts.
• Coordinate demand and capacity planning with PMO leadership, delivery teams, and enterprise architects; drive scenario planning and sequencing to maximize throughput and minimize disruption to critical operations (e.g., close cycles, audits, labor/employee processes).
• Lead discovery‑to‑sourcing activities for initiatives requiring external solutions or services, including RFI/RFP development, vendor evaluation, and recommendation of sourcing options.
• Partner with Procurement and Legal to support contract negotiations, commercial terms, risk controls, and vendor performance management throughout the engagement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical subject
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise IT leadership spanning business relationship management, portfolio/demand management, program delivery, and executive stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated success leading strategic portfolios including multi‑year roadmaps, investment governance, and value realization, as well as influencing investment decisions at the executive level; experience supporting Corporate Services domains (HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal) strongly preferred.

• Experience leading enterprise platforms and process transformation for Corporate Services (e.g., ERP/Financials, HCM,…