CNA Search Looking for Senior IT Business Partner at Boston, MA Full Time

CNA Search is looking for a Senior IT Business Partner to provide partnership and oversight of various business area IT operations and associated application platform(s) operations, strategy, and technical resourcing globally. This role will identify and influence technology selection, solution approaches, use, and adoption, as well as propose and lead strategic technology initiatives across the organization. Working with peers, IT Operations, Data Services, and external managed services, this role will support the day-to-day delivery needs within the business both with individual contribution as well as associated managed services.

• Partner with various business leaders to identify & prioritize needed business capabilities and create corresponding technology roadmaps
• Collaborate across IT Business Partners to identify synergies and help establish aggregated technology roadmaps that drive an overall technology vision and optimize the technology footprint
• Ensure a common architecture is consistent with long-term business objectives by participating in the analysis, evaluation, and development of long-range strategic technology planning.
• Oversee application development, implementation, and configuration through a structured project methodologies to successfully deliver internally developed, purchased/customized, and SaaS solutions related
• Collaborate with IT leadership team to apply best practices in integration and represent Enterprise Applications during envisioning sessions with other IT Groups
• Establish and implement resource strategies and plans to meet the highest priority demand, allowing for flexibility in capacity (scaling up and down as needed)
• Develop and manage training strategy and plans to improve team performance
• Leverage project roadmaps and drive short- and long-term actions to address skills and resource capacity planning
• Participate in establishing sourcing from 3rd party vendors to create capacity flexibility and scalability. Manage vendors ensuring appropriate measures are in place to monitor and drive vendor performance

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of IT Business Partner experience
• Proven background in effectively planning and executing technology initiatives and/or business process changes
• Demonstrated experience in establishing technology architecture vision and strategies to progress the overall Enterprise IT Application Portfolio to meet the future needs of the business
• Experience leading large initiatives through the entire life cycle management including requirements gathering and documentation methodologies, application design, vendor selection, development methodologies and project tracking, source control and defect tracking, change management, release control, and documentation, deployment, and training
• Knowledge and experience with Veeva Systems, inclusive of but not limited to RIMs, Quality Docs, LMS, and QMS
• Exposure to various enterprise information systems, inclusive of but not limited to, Great Plains, Sage People, Concur, and Office 365
• Exposure with Regulatory and R&D information systems, inclusive of but not limited to eTMF, Argus, SAS, Medidata, and IRT Solutions
• Demonstrated ability to influence key business stakeholders on technology decisions
• Ability to effectively lead/manage stakeholder discussions to reach a desired end goal
• Ability to explain technical thoughts and ideas to non-technically savvy people
• Ability to connect business needs to technical solutions as well as alignment to existing and new processes.
• Reads situations quickly and adjusts approach as needed to have productive discussions
• Strong understanding of the relationship between applications, databases, operating systems, processing platforms, storage platforms, and networks
• Proven ability to manage third-party vendor and partner relationships