Job Description

IT powers our company to save and improve lives. IT Strategy Realization's (ITSR's) purpose is to lead value-driven outcomes and accelerate how we transform IT. Business of IT (BIT) is a transformation program that drives integrated strategic portfolio management capabilities across IT to optimize the way we deliver business value

As our IT organization focuses on transforming, we need to ensure our business processes are aligned to and support these goals. There are many capabilities required to run IT which must be better defined, aligned, and enabled with supporting technology, such as investment and portfolio management, finance, resource planning and IT master data management.

The Senior Specialist of Demand and Capacity Management Customer Success plays a critical role in the Business of IT (BIT) program at our Company. This position reports to the Demand and Capacity Management Product Manager. Approximately 10% travel is required for this role.

A partial list of responsibilities includes the following:

• Leads onboarding and customer engagement for repeatable, customer-focused experience, and customer support

• Customer focused business analyst; works closely with internal customers and the product manager in support of the realization of value through understanding of customer needs and translating them into end-to-end delivery of appropriate enhancements and new product features

• Manages stakeholder relationships and acts as a single point of contact for internal customers

• Partner with the organization change management workstream on training and change management activities to support product roll out and scale

• Partner with process enablement workstream on ensuring alignment across people, process, and tool

Required Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in one or more of the following areas: IT product management, management consulting, business analysis, digital strategy, digital transformation, or related fields

• Experience with work and portfolio management tools like Jira, Apptio Targetprocess, and Microsoft Project.

• Experience with global programs and project delivering IT solutions

• Proven experience with business analyst role and/or consulting role

• Proven experience with capturing and clarifying requirement and customer needs

• Ability to navigate matric organizations and comfortable to deal with ambiguity and adaptability to changes

• Ability to quickly develop effective trust-based relationships, working closely with cross functional stakeholders

• Understanding of agile methodology and product delivery lifecycle

• Strong attention to detail, presentation skills, with the ability to facilitate meetings, trainings and workshops

• Consulting mindset, proactive, can-do attitude

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Proficiency in delivering scalable and performant solutions for Strategic Portfolio Management capabilities

• Understanding of Organizational Change Management principles and their integration with product delivery

• Self-directed, self-motivated,focusedprofessional who with little direction can fill in the gaps as to what isneeded,and drive expected results.

• Expertise in User Experience Design

• Certification in program or project management methodologies (e.g., PMP, Agile, Scrum).

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

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Requisition ID:R326673