Identified by Shinygigs from the original job posted here: IT Business Relationship Manager

IT Business Relationship Manager (BRM) to join its technology team.

The BRM will serve as a strategic partner and share ownership for both business strategy and business value results. The BRM owns the leadership relationship and serves as a single point of focus for the procure to pay, warehouse management, and supply chain planning functional solutions (PTP, MM, IBP, EWM) where they will surface and shape demand for business and technology capabilities, while ensuring the anticipated value from those capabilities are captured, optimized, and recognized. This is achieved by partnering with appropriate resources to facilitate the creation of idea documents, business cases, requirements, and value plans; ensuring value optimization and communication; and enabling continuous improvement in all areas and people around them. The ideal candidate will be well versed in the Supply Chain function, have in depth knowledge of the capabilities and business processes, have a solid understanding of the up/down stream process and data connections, and have awareness of industry best practices and trends.

Responsibilities:

Work with business leaders to articulate their function's needs and requirements to advance business performance
Maintain multi-year business/technology capability roadmaps
Partner with organizational change management to ensure effective business transformation for all initiatives
Partner with the PMO to ensure a healthy and well-managed initiative portfolio
Partner with business leaders to evaluate proposals, align them to business capability roadmaps and priorities
Measure adoption and work with business leadership to develop future roadmap and opportunities
Identify and integrate business partners' long-range plans into business capability roadmaps and priorities, as appropriate
Brief stakeholders on business partner plans
Focus on business value including risk assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
Advocate for an awareness and focus on business partner strategic plans
Correlate business value and priorities to planning activities and goal setting
Engage as a project stakeholder by evaluating project efforts and progress against strategic plans and objectives
Be creative and innovative with regards to your knowledge and awareness of industry trends and digital advances as they relate to new opportunities and business needs
Ensure project and initiative progress, including consistent and effective communication; includes managing escalations and avoiding risk.

Skills:

Relationship building: ability to listen, build rapport, and credibility as a strategic partner
Strategic thinking: ability to understand organizational vision and influence business capability roadmaps
Ability to be relaxed, poised and confident in conversations with executives
Experienced at negotiating conflict and problem-solving to achieve win-win outcomes at all levels
Ability to set expectations with business partners and have hard conversations when needed
Ability to influence and break down silos within and across functional areas
Have a strong understanding of technology, requirements management, and ability to assess and articulate risk
Strong oral, written, and presentation skills
Have an outside in focus
Solid understanding of IT assets and capabilities
Be able to identify gaps and areas that need improvement

Overall Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in business management, management information systems, or related field
10+ years of experience in warehouse management, distribution, inventory management/planning, logistics, 3PL, transportation management
5+ years of experience facilitating the development and implementation of business initiatives and projects, based on management objectives

Additional Qualifications

Master of Business Administration, or Master of Supply Chain Management preferred
Big four experience as a Consulting Manager preferred
Experience in sourcing and procurement preferred
Experience in supply chain planning and management preferred
Experience in wholesale pharmaceutical distribution or life sciences preferred
Experience with SAP S4/HANA and/or SAP EWM preferred
Experience in ERP configuration preferred
Business Relationship Management certifications – BRMP, CBRM, or MBRM – preferred
Supply chain certifications – APICS, SCOR – preferred

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 116,800 - 194,600 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

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