IT Business Partner - Consulting

Great that you're thinking about a career with BSI! We are hiring for a IT Business Partner to join us on a permanent basis in the US. Our IT Business Partners are pivotal in enabling Information Technology to ensure that the business division delivers its business objectives whilst achieve maximum value from investment in the use of technology. Reporting into the IT Director – Consulting Services, this role will be the representative of IT within the Consulting Services business stream and become the trusted business partner to the stream and its leadership team. You will also be instrumental in contributing to the IT agenda within the business stream and ensure its relevance to the business. For more information about our Consulting Service division, please click here - https://www.bsigroup.com/en-US/our-services/consulting/ Being a global operation, you will collaborate alongside stakeholders across the globe to ensure the alignment between the business stream and the broader BSI IT strategy. This position will be majority homebased working with the requirement to go into the Herndon, PA or other AMAS offices on business needs. Responsibilities:- Work effectively with senior business and IT stakeholders, conducting investigations and assuring the feasibility of proposed solutions. Ensure that a holistic view is taken of the business situations investigated, and that stakeholder perspectives are identified and analysed with a view to achieving consensus. Ensure that business objectives and requirements are understood and provide a context with which recommended solutions are aligned. Advise senior stakeholders on business change priorities within the context of the organisational strategy and objectives. Take responsibility for work to investigate business problems and opportunities, and specify required changes to business processes, people skills, information, technology and organisation structures and roles. Responsible for business case development through the identification and definition of business and technical options that will address the business objectives and requirements, and the analysis of the costs, benefits, risks and impacts for each option. Advise and influence executive management throughout the business change lifecycle to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with the strategy and enterprise architecture. Create, manage and maintain a robust set of reporting about demand and its influence and impact on the operating model. This will include how the metrics are derived and assumptions and limitations on the metrics. Establish process to show trends in the metric measures. Monitor the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies, products, services, methods and techniques. For example, monitor product release notices, academic research and other learned publications, and seek relevant information from technology providers and researchers. Facilitate the decision-making processes related to business change, and the planning and implementation of change. Monitor the level of client satisfaction and responds to queries, complaints and requests. Understand the Business Architecture for the business stream aligning to business functions, the business strategy and the competitive landscape and describe the architecture in different ways for different audiences. To excel in this role, you will be:- Highly experienced in communicating with clients & stakeholders at all levels to both technical and non-technical audiences, individually and in groups. Previous experience within Consulting Services or a solid Consulting background. Possess an extensive knowledge of business and business skills, in more than one business sector, and understands the significance of commercial constraints. Demonstrate a strong awareness of the uses of IT within industry and specifically within competitive or associated organisations operating in the same market. Ability to take innovative approaches to problem solving and/or devising inventive and creative solutions. Convey a level of confidence and professionalism when engaging with stakeholders, influencing positively and persuading others to take a specific course of action when not in a position of authority. Demonstrate and understanding of principles, processes and practices associated with consultancy in the IT environment. Examples: managing the client relationship, planning the assignment, consultancy styles. What We Offer: We offer a competitive salary, group-sponsored health and dental, short-term and long-term disability, a company-matched 401k plan, company paid life insurance, 11 paid holidays and 4 weeks paid time off. #LI-MD1 #LI-Hybrid Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business. BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are committed to diversity. BSI is conducting face-to-face interviews where appropriate and possible. If you are invited to a face-to-face interview but feel more comfortable with conducting the interview virtually, please speak to a member of our recruitment team.