VP, IT Business Partner

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I.    JOB SUMMARY 

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), the Vice President of IT Business Partnership will serve as the primary IT liaison for our Products Business and Research & Development function. This role is also responsible for overseeing the strategy, development, and support services for Enterprise Information Management. Additionally, the VP will lead the Business Partner Center of Excellence (COE).

The Vice President, IT Business Partner will collaborate with Emergent’s business and functional leaders to shape and drive business strategy, outcomes, and key performance indicators (KPIs). This role will be responsible for developing strategy-driven roadmaps that encompass people, roles, processes, information, and technology components. Additionally, the VP will ensure that business solutions deliver measurable value (ROI/ROA), with results effectively assessed, communicated, and adopted. This position will also oversee the engineering and execution of business-aligned solutions, ensuring seamless integration and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate for this role will be a strategic thought leader, an inspiring people leader, and an exceptional communicator, adept at navigating a complex, matrixed environment. They will bring deep expertise in sales, marketing, and research & development business processes and enablement. Above all, this individual must be a highly effective collaborator, engaging seamlessly with diverse business stakeholders, vendor partners, and team members. A strong emphasis will be placed on identifying and driving innovation opportunities to ensure continued success in an increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving industry landscape.

II.    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• (Strategic Planning) Partner with business leaders to translate functional and business strategies and supporting outcomes to enabling business capabilities. Facilitate the development of actionable, multi-year, strategy driven business and IT roadmaps.  Lead the development and execution of a cross company (enterprise) roadmap to ensure alignment and integration of business strategy and solutions enabling Emergent 2024 Strategy and beyond. 
• (Solutions/Capability Delivery) Lead a team of business partners, business architects and solutions delivery leads to deliver on the business/functional portfolios aligned to the Emergent Strategic Plan.  Provide oversight and optimize the requirements, design, configuration, testing and deployment of business aligned solutions. (e.g. salesforce, laboratory, data, analytics).  Architect, engineer and deliver business aligned solutions ensuring successful, high quality, reliable, integrated, cost-effective solutions.
• (Demand Shaping) Canvas the marketplace and proactively bring business & technology “art of possible” ideas to further the realization of business strategy.  Collaborate to identify and develop true business value opportunities, and influence the decision on priorities, roadmap, and timing of initiatives/deliverables.  Partner with business and IT leaders to evaluate proposals, build business cases and plan new joint initiatives. Owns building business case for all assigned. Oversees creation and maintenance of business architecture and roadmap.  Gather high level business requirements regarding new solutions and enhancements to existing solutions. 
• (Enterprise Information Management) Responsible for developing and executing the organization’s data and information strategy, ensuring seamless integration, governance, and utilization of data assets to drive business value. This role provides strategic leadership in data management, analytics, governance, and emerging technologies, aligning enterprise information initiatives with overall business objectives.
• (Change Management) Partner with business teams (change management) to ensure effective business transformation for all initiatives (roles, processes, organization) to drive the realization of identified business outcomes. Ensures IT is aware of key business changes and issues.
• (Portfolio) Obtain alignment on priorities (based on business value) working with targeted business areas.  Provide input to governance committee for alignment on the global portfolio of initiatives such that IT initiatives support investment decisions with the greatest impact for the business,