Business Relationship Specialist

Business Relationship Specialist

Are you ready for your next challenge? We are looking for a Business Relationship Specialist. Are you looking for a role where you will act as a strategic business partner working with various business units and share ownership for both business strategy and business value results? Do you have experience with management-level relationships and serving as a single point of focus, working to converge functions such as IT, HR, finance, etc.

and one or more lines of business or value streams? If so, this may be the role for you!

• Working with customers to identify opportunities to utilize new technology, explore options for automation, and consult on business investment proposals involving Information Management & Technology input to support them in achieving desired goals.
• Working as the strategic interface with assigned areas of CNL for business-IM&T strategy development, solution discovery, service management, risk management and relationship management.
• Providing highly-valued, strategic consulting-level support and guidance throughout key Information Management & Technology initiatives.
• Communicating decisions, priorities and relevant information to IM&T and IS business stakeholders.
• Coaching business leaders and enabling them to articulate their functions (i.e. technology, people, etc.) needs and requirements will advance business performance.
• Partnering with enterprise to develop and maintain multi-year business capability roadmaps.
• Partnering with business transformation teams (change management) to ensure effective business transformation for all initiatives.
• Partnering with the project / program / portfolio management organization (PMO) to ensure a healthy and well-managed initiative portfolio.
• Partnering with business leadership to plan new joint initiatives, evaluate proposals, and determine how they fit into business capability roadmaps and priorities.
• Thinking strategically by identifying business function opportunities and the best-suited position for the function's adoption within the business partner organization. Measure adoption and work with business leadership to develop future roadmaps and opportunities.
• Identifying and integrating business partners' long-range plans into business capability roadmaps and priorities, as appropriate.
• Briefing stakeholders on business partner plans.
• Focusing on business value rather than solutions to develop ideas, including digital awareness, risk assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
• Building and managing the relationship team to ensure convergence and strategic partnering with the business partner team, including working closely with leadership as executive sponsors for each business partner.
• Advocating for an awareness and focus on business partner strategic plans.
• Correlating business value and priorities to planning activities and goal-setting.
• Ensuring that project / program managers of business partner projects know the business partner and their objectives; engaging as a project / program stakeholder, including evaluating project efforts and progress against joint strategic plans and objectives.
• Being creative and innovative with regard to your knowledge and awareness of industry trends and digital advances as they relate to new opportunities and business needs.
• Evaluating joint initiatives as they relate to corporate strategy to ensure convergence and opportunities for measurable success.
• Acting as the strategic interface between the BRS's function and business partner to stimulate, surface, and shape business demand and ensure that the potential business value from those assets and capabilities is captured, realized, optimized, and recognized.
• Establishing and earning value-adding, strategic partner relationship maturity for yourself in the role of a BRS and the entire function.
• Developing a deep knowledge of the business partner's business unit and building positive relationship development horizontally and vertically.
• Ensuring business value realization and optimization, from value plans through consultancy, business case development, and financial awareness,…