Lead Business Partner - Submarines

Job Description

Lead Business Partner - Submarines

Full Time

Derby/ Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Business Partner to join the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business in Derby.

We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

In this role you will be responsible for the relationship with the wider business. You will have excellent stakeholder management skill, be an experienced people manager and a good understanding of Agile ways of working, including SRUM mastering, Sprint etc. You will have experience in requirements management & business analysis as you will be leading the business analysis team.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:    

You will have overall ownership for strategic relationships and stakeholder management for specific business areas or functions. 

• Fully engage the business or function across the entire IT lifecycle (Determine requirements, Delivery of programmes, run current services and Retire legacy systems).                
• Be able to understand business strategy, requirements and processes across the entire value chain and be able to translate those into IT capabilities / outcomes through the Determine processes.                
• Ensure the IT roadmaps remain relevant for business or function and the associated multi-year capital investment plans are in place to deliver the business demands.                 
• Ensure the successful launch of projects within domain accountable for, and that these then deliver the expected business benefits to time, cost and quality - with appropriate sponsorship, governance and escalations in place.  
• Ensure that IT services remain visible and relevant within domain accountable for, assuring they are run to the agreed service levels, risks are visible, and retirement of non-relevant services are planned for; also, you will provide the business with Global IT input into Business Continuity planning and Risk Management, whilst understanding, prioritising and mitigating business and IT continuity issues and risks. This will include ensuring that risk mitigations plans are appropriate and being actively owned.  

Who we are looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do.  These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Educated to Degree Level or equivalent.
• Relevant experience in IT delivery, ideally with experience in complex corporation stakeholder management roles.
• Experience of managing a range of projects or programmes.
• Experience of working with business leaders on the development of business & IT strategy and experience in change management and senior stakeholder management.
• Experience and good understanding of Agile ways of working, including SRUM mastering, Sprint etc.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Closing date: 21st January 2024

Job Category

Information Technology

Posting Date

22 Dec 2023; 00:12