Sr. Manager, IT Business Partner, NEA (North East Asia) align business and IT objectives, lead overall engagement between business stakeholders and the IT community, formulate synthesized business capability and technology advancement strategies, and are accountable for successful provisioning of all IT services and investments to achieve outcomes for their stakeholders.

Role & Responsibilities

• Align strategic and tactical business objectives with corresponding IT objectives.
• Participate in IT strategy creation, including alignment with Enterprise and Business Unit strategies.  
• Formulate synthesized business capability and technology advancement strategies and long-term roadmaps.
• Provide insights and thought-leadership on industry/functional trends and best practices to guide business priorities, customer and employee experience advancements, and technology decisions.
• Utilize high-level business process and IT system architectures to guide business capability and technology advancement roadmaps, partnered with business stakeholders and IT colleagues.
• Plan and manage an annual IT investment portfolio in alignment with budgetary thresholds, business priorities, and IT strategies
• Create and process IT investment proposals and/or Agile Release Trains, collaborating with business stakeholders, PMO, and IT Delivery (note: IT Delivery includes Apps and Infrastructure Operations) colleagues to define scope, ROI, risks & mitigations, major components of work, staffing requirements, and financial needs
• Serve as IT Lead of IT investments to ensure successful achievement of scope, cost, schedule, quality, adoption, and value outcomes
• Participate in Steering Committees, Operating Committees, and/or Agile Program Increment Events to guide activities, make trade-off decisions, remove roadblocks, and unify business stakeholder and IT communities
• Provide functional management of Business Analysts deployed on solution delivery projects
• Support risk management, regulatory compliance, Information Security, and audit remediation activities.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, including creation of business impact analyses.
• Support definition and utilization of IT governance processes and policies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable field.
• 15+ years proven experience in IT, at least 5 years or more business partnership experience with exposure to senior business and IT management.
• Strong Japanese and English communication and inter-personal skills; ability to work effectively with global teams.
• Ability to work in a matrix environment with multiple business and IT groups.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to meet challenges, hardworking & able to work under pressure.