Business & IT Alignment Director

The Job Opportunity:The Business & IT Alignment Director will be responsible for supporting Legal, OEC & Privacy in Corporate Functions. The candidate will have multiple large client areas and multiple deployed Enterprise technologies to support across multiple divisions. The candidate will manage the team which includes managers and individual contributors and related delivery activities that require interaction between business units and IT (including Delivery, Support, and Business Relationships) to successfully deliver Company solutions and ensure value is achieved as anticipated from the outsourced relationships under management. The candidate will lead and influence the direction of the domain and provide coaching and mentoring to enable a high-performing team. This position will report to the Senior Director of IT Corporate Functions.The Job Responsibilities:Working in conjunction with the business, drive the management of strategic roadmap, portfolio management, and prioritization and secure the required budget.Ensure processes are adhered to in the tracking of status and serve as an escalation point for the Business.Anticipate capacity and ensure it is known, monitored, and adequate staffing is provided for solutions and projects across respective domain(s).Develop and execute plans to ensure capacity constraints do not impact upcoming or inflight projects within and across domains.Establish and maintain relationships with Sourcing Partner equivalent management.Monitor project execution and evaluate work in terms of time, cost, and quality targets.Assess and evaluate risk.Communicate effectively, both formally and informally.Demonstrate leadership.Facilitate collaboration between stakeholders with diverse objectives.Understand the relevance of own area of responsibility/specialism to the employing organization.Manage communication and negotiation with suppliers to obtain required solution design and sizing (hours effort).Review and approve infrastructure and software-related project costs.Establish a cross-departmental team to seamlessly execute projects.Partner directly with business and IT leadership and sourcing providers.Function as a Single Point of Escalation for all questions, activities, and issues related to project delivery requests aligned to specific Legal, OEC, and Privacy domains.Evaluate the performance of the organization against defined metrics and implement process improvements as necessary.Responsible for Staff and Travel budgets as well as identifying needed decreases/increases per the financial schedule.Approve ROM estimates prior to project initiation.Review and approve time reports/invoices and monitor actuals.Accountable for accurate financial estimates.Identify and structure the organization to align with the current and anticipated future strategy of the domain.Required Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in the field of computer science, engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.A minimum of 12 years of IT experience in a large or mid-size multinational healthcare organization.Broad IT expertise in various disciplines; systems development, infrastructure, etc.Strong influence and negotiating skills.Experience leading teams - both with direct staff and indirect project teams.Preferred Qualifications:MBA Degree.Knowledge of legal operations, privacy, and office of Ethics and compliance.Experience in setting IT strategy and business IT alignment.Strong organizational skills, including program/project governance and increased levels of staff oversight.Strong interdisciplinary, intercultural, influence, and networking skills.Experience with vendor management.Qualifications in project and program management.Broad knowledge of all technologies used or to be used by the internal customer, their external customers, and internal partners.

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