The ITBP Director is the IT leadership role directly assigned to business units, regions, and functions. The role must understand business goals, contribute to business strategies, and align the IT solutions and services to achieve business outcomes. Effective ITBPs have both business & technology acumen, excel at collaboration, are highly organized, and have a relentless pursuit of results.
Primary Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Understand, influence, and contribute to business strategy.
- Identify and advocate for how IT can contribute to business results.
- Align business unit needs into an IT strategy and Enterprise architecture.
- Manage a portfolio and roadmap reflecting urgency, financials, and constraints.
Execution & IT Service Leadership
- Overall responsibility for the project/product execution lifecycle.
- Partners with IT COEs to realize business objectives/outcomes.
- Monitors & improves IT service performance for assigned business unit.
- Effectively leverages operating system.
Merger & Acquisition
- Contributes to IT Due Diligence on M&A, including TSA formation.
- Leads IT TSA execution and integration of acquired companies.
- Prioritizes deployment of IT standards to acquired companies.
Team, Talent, Culture
- Management responsibility for a team of project managers and business analysts.
- Identifies, coaches, and develops talent within the full IT organization.
- Foster a culture of commitment, continuous improvement, and learning.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Communicate effectively from executives to business leaders to individual contributors.
- Collaborates with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proactive communication of IT strategy, performance, and operational metrics.
Financial and Risk Management
- Effective budget management, including Operating and Capital expenses.
- Ensures compliance through effective IT controls design and operations.
Qualifications
• Minimum four-year degree in Business, Information Technology, or related field.
• Ten or more years of relevant experience, including five or more years in IT leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience in global business environment.
• Cycles of inorganic growth, specifically M&A transactions
- Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Excellent organizational, time management, prioritization, and delivery skills.
- Ability to manage competing demands, constraints, and personalities.