It Business Partner

IT Business Partner –Join our team if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding career! P&O Ferrymasters are looking for anIT Business Partnerto join us in Birmingham.

Your role:

As IT Business Partner you will be part of a highly dedicated and professional team, which is responsible for delivering the highest quality of service to an internationally dedicated client base.

The main purpose of your role will be to act as an interface between the business and the IT function.  Acting as a champion for IT within the business and a champion for the business within IT. You will ensure the respective understanding and needs of the Business and IT, scoping and defining changes through to the completion of the work.

Key responsibilities:

• Full end to end responsibility for the delivery of the IT outcomes on behalf of the IT function to the business, with access to the entire IT team, to deliver the needs of the business, collaborating with the other IT members to achieve the outcomes required.
• Act as the focal point for IT needs within the business unit, ensuring the IT project pipeline accurately reflects the priorities and needs of the business.
• To be a Subject Matter Expert of your assigned business areas to ensure the business requirements and justification are met.
• Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the business, attend forums to represent IT and ensure Business requirements and IT capabilities are aligned. Own the relationship with third party suppliers where appropriate, to ensure that the business is receiving the best possible service and pricing.
• Understand the tactical and strategic business requirement and identify how IT can support these.
• Provide monthly reports at Steerco meetings.
• Identify how the Business Strategy and IT strategy affect operational processes and work with the appropriate teams to ensure successful implementation.
• Obtain feedback on IT services from the business and agreeing any improvement actions required.
• Help to spread innovation throughout the business by sharing innovative ideas between business units.

Your Profile:

You will need exceptional stakeholder and relationship management skills, be able to influence and drive collaboration, leading by example. Preferably including experience of working with Board Level Directors. Possess excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to communicate complex problems in a non-technical and simplified manner. Knowledge of ITIL, Prince2 and Agile methodology and working practices preferable but not essential. Degree qualified or equivalent work experience. Well organised with attention to detail, whilst self-motivated and able to work on your own initiative. Flexibility to travel within the UK and internationally. Experience of working in a large multi business unit corporate organisation and centralised IT functions.

This is a full-time position. You will be working 37.5 hours per week. Remote working will be considered for this role.

Who are we?

We are P&O Ferrymasters, and we work with some of the largest companies in the world to make sure that their goods get to where they need to on time and efficiently. We have locations across Europe and the Northern Mediterranean and our routes cover road, rail, and sea.

We operate from over 20 locations in 13 countries and work with some of the best-known global household names.

We are a part of DP World who are one of the largest global logistics companies in the world; at any one time 10% of all shipping containers in the world are being shipped by DP World. We are proud to lead the future of logistics to help enable global trade in the 21st century and beyond.

We offer:

P&O Ferrymasters offer a competitive package in line with the seniority of the position.  Salary will be dependent on experience of the successful candidate.

Other benefits include Company pension, P&O Ferries travel concessions, Employee Assistance Scheme and an employee wellbeing programme, along with opportunities for personal and professional training and development.

If you have all the relevant skills and experience and would like to join our company, please apply by forwarding an up-to-date CV as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Additional keywords: logistics, IT Support, Information Technology, IT Systems, IT Specialist, IT Business Partner, IT Partner

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