Strategic IT BRM & Enterprise Applications Leader

Company Overview

CB&I® is the world’s leading designer and builder of storage facilities, tanks and terminals. With more than 60,000 structures completed throughout our 135+ year history, we have the global expertise and strategically-located operations to provide customers world-class storage solutions foreven the most complex energy infrastructure projects.

The Senior Manager of Enterprise Applications and Data/Business Relationship Manager (“BRM”) serves as the IT strategic interface with assigned business functions and/or divisions. The BRM works directly with business clients to understand end-to-end business processes and translate needs into IT opportunities and investments. As a trusted advisor and advocate for the business function and/or division, this position provides valued strategic consulting/guidance and ensures IT services meet the business functions/division’s needs while driving enterprise-wide collaboration and a culture of creativity, innovation and value that reflects the business strategy as a whole.

This position facilitates and leads the planning and execution of IT initiatives to enable the enterprise and the individual functions/divisions to achieve their objectives through the effective use of technology.

This position is a manager role. The role directly reports to the Director, Applications and Data Management and routinely interacts with Finance, Global IT, Global Business Leads, Global Functional Leads, and Project Management.

• Proactively communicate with the business function/division and support the leadership team, including leading a rich dialogue on I.T. service performance, spend and priorities.
• Analyze the business function/division needs ranging from strategic perspectives to service requirements. Ensure IT understands the full spectrum of the business function/division requirements.
• Advocate for the business function/division across the IT function, ensuring that ideas & feedback from the business function/divisions are incorporated into IT plans, initiatives, and activities.
• Drive continuous improvement across the Enterprise, seeking opportunities to apply IT knowledge, skills, products, and services to improve business processes and the end user experience.
• Maintain a comprehensive corporate level satisfaction and suggestion program, including formal/informal communications, surveys, and metrics.
• Inform business function/division leaders on the state of their team’s satisfaction and feedback/suggestions to the IT organization on how to improve the satisfaction
• Responsible for staying abreast of business issues and industry trends to anticipate impacts of technology changes on the workforce and business.
• Ensure effective governance throughout the enterprise project lifecycle.
• Facilitate service transition to operations for the business functions/divisions, including participation in testing activities, service negotiation tasks and other appropriate change management activities.
• Facilitate I.T. Planning & Governance by ensuring the business functions/divisions awareness and participation.
• Coordinate with the Enterprise Technology Architecture team to ensure the business function’s/division’s requirements are included in technology standards and product selections.
• Define and sustain change management/control procedures (CAB) ITIL based which discipline the applications development process, ensuring that adjustments to client requirements are effectively rationalized.
• Assist the business functions/divisions to ensure critical change management tasks are accomplished.
• Coordinate with the Cybersecurity, Applications, and Infrastructure Management teams to provide the business function’s/division’s perspectives on service contracts, operations, and improvement opportunities
• Coordinate with other groups within the IT organization to ensure all relevant considerations are communicated to the appropriate business function/division stakeholders.
• Serve as the key technology spokesperson for the IT function with key business function/division stakeholders or external clients/partners/suppliers, as appropriate, to demonstrate best practices.
• Coordinate…