IT & Digital Business Partner

Rolls-Royce
UK
7 months ago
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IT & Digital Business Partner - Civil Aerospace Derby/ Hybrid Full Time Why Rolls- Royce? An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of IT Business Partner within our Civil Digital Team. As an excellent communicator you will build and maintain strong relationships within (and across) Civil Aerospace and IT and Digital delivery teams to help deliver business outcomes. The role will also work across multiple business areas and partner with Group IT teams to drive improvement in the overall Digital Workplace experience within Civil Aerospace. In Civil Digital & IT, we are at the forefront of unlocking digital/IT capabilities across Civil Aerospace to achieve our corporate goals. Within the function, we have a strong ethos of empowering colleagues to be at their best, whilst supporting their development and progression within their roles. Throughout our proud history, we’ve discovered pioneers come in many forms, not least through the individual traits displayed by our people. Join us and you can bring your self to work every day - in an environment of collaboration, continuous learning and respect. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. 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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working. What you will be doing: As a leader, you will be expected to bring your experience and ideas to help drive improvement agendas and lead strategically – with the support provided for you to be at your best- Lead the Digital & IT engagement in assigned areas and manage key stakeholder relationships. Partner to understand business challenges, priorities and desired outcomes. Develop roadmaps to deliver business priorities whilst reducing risk, technical debt and total cost of ownership. Facilitate the prioritisation of the Digital & IT Portfolio ensuring value, risk and cost are balanced. Communicate the status of Digital & IT delivery assuring the delivery of key business outcomes. Analyse business requirements and build value based business cases for new investments Who we are looking for: Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know 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. Customer excellence including strong communicating & influencing skills. Experience of working with business leaders on solving business problems. Strong proven relationship & stakeholder management. Experience of working in or with Innovation, Project Management, Business Analysis, Service Management, Strategic Planning or Change Management would be beneficial. Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP) Certificates would be beneficial. Join us & Power our future Pioneers of Power Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role. 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 atwww.careers.rolls-royce.comGrade: Management Level C Closing Date: 20th September 2024 For further information please contact: Jeremy Byrne. Recruiter: Karolina O’Grady Job Category Information Technology Posting Date 06 Sept 2024; 00:09 Posting End Date 20 Sept 2024

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