Director of IT Business Relationship Management (Boston, MA)
The Stepping Stones Group

Job Info

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• Partner with the Autism & Community business unit and enterprise leaders both inside and outside the organization to collaborate and ensure meaningful results from our strategic initiatives.
• Act as the key liaison across all functional areas, including business units, the information technology department, and outside vendors for the business unit.
• Represent IT, participate and contribute as part of the cross-functional enterprise/business unit team in planning project activities, change management, managing cross-functional dependencies, and risk management for the business unit.
• Develop strong relationships with business unit stakeholders, IT technical staff and peers to define project goals, timelines and identifying and deploying resources to meet target completion dates.
• Build and manage a relationship team to oversee 'convergence and strategic partnering' across the organization, including with executive and senior leadership.
• Proactively sense and anticipate changes affecting IT operations and strategy in relative to the business unit organization and operations.
• Collaborate with CIO and IT operations functions to ensure solution compatibility with company standards.
• Assume project management responsibilities for technology projects for the business unit
• Communicate with business leadership to evaluate joint initiatives and proposals to see how they align with established roadmaps and business priorities.
• Identify business value when developing ideas with a focus on digital awareness, risk assessment, business continuity and business capability requirements.
• Engage with project and program leads from each business unit to ensure they understand the objectives for joint strategic efforts.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in IT program management and/or integration management, operational and/or management consulting functions.
• Minimum 5 years of experience championing organizational change, e.g., leading initiatives, products, services or interactions.
• Must possess strategic thinking, planning and operational execution excellence.
• Ability to set expectations with partners and achieve alignment and agreement as well as being able to shift opinions using influence over positional power.
• Must be able to connect strategy to execution and identify gaps and areas that require improvement.
• Experience in IT project management (enterprise applications, cyber security, infrastructure.)
• Possess a broad knowledge of most technical and business resources and use them to effectively coordinate team members and external resources.
• Ability to recognize issues/risks, escalate as appropriate, identify alternatives, and collaborate with leadership on issue resolution and risk mitigation.
• Strong understanding and experience in executing organization change management using positive and collaborative methods.
• Ability to communicate professionally & effectively to both technical and business teams, across all levels of the organization.
• Excellent presentation skills & comfort around senior leadership.
• Ability to manage a high number of high priority work streams concurrently.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or relevant field.
• 8 to 10 years of IT and business/industry work experience, with at least 3 years of leadership experience.

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