Sr. Director, IT Business Partner, Medical

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Position summary:

This role will lead the development and management of the business engagement partnership function for the Medical Division. The individual will partner and collaborate with the respective divisional leadership teams, work closely with commercial digital transformation efforts and SaaS initiatives, and IT service delivery teams to help drive financial goals, customer satisfaction and overall alignment, governance and viability of IT strategy. The position holder will ensure IT investments deliver scalable, secure, and innovative solutions that enhance digital transformation, enable data-driven decision-making, and support the growth of Stryker.  Further, this key leadership role will align the divisional requirements with Stryker and IT strategy, achieve outlined targets, and follow operational procedures and maintain accountability for program, financials and SLAs to the business. Specifically drive the business engagements, strategies and capability development in the specified business.

Key responsibilities include:  lead an engaged and effective team, build strong collaborative relationships with division leadership and teams; manage the division IT budget and guide the division in effectively investing in IT to meet strategic objectives by providing knowledge and expertise to department heads and process owners in identifying opportunities for technology and prioritizing initiatives; prepare, define, and monitor IT projects to address business needs; and, manage alignment of project deliverables with business requirements throughout the project and delivery life cycle.

By integrating divisional and organizational priorities, this leader will play a pivotal role in enabling Stryker’s commercial digital transformation and achieving long-term strategic goals.

Key Success Factors:

• Develop and execute IT strategy and digital platform operating model aligning with the business unit’s digital transformation and SaaS priorities.
• Drive IT value creation, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business leaders and act as a trusted advisor.
• Lead a team of IS business partners and analysts to identify, scope, and prioritize technology initiatives.

Critical Success Factors for this role are:

• Develop and drive IT strategy that combines both the Medical division and IT strategic priorities.
• Drive IT value creation and satisfaction for the Medical.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with division leadership and act as a liaison between IT and Medical.
• Ability to learn and understand business requirements, issues and processes to articulate the context of projects and processes in business terms.
• Lead Business Analysts and/or IT business partners to conduct meetings and interviews with stakeholders and facilitate cross-functional sessions to define and document high-level business strategies, ideation, demand, requirements and project scope.

Essential duties & responsibilities: (detailed description)

• Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and align IT strategies with business objectives, ensuring measurable value delivery for the Medical Division. Foster strong relationships with division leadership to drive collaboration and effective communication. Build and maintain strong relationships with division leadership and act as a liaison between IT and Medical division/functions.
• Digital Transformation & Innovation: Drive IT initiatives to enhance digital capabilities, SaaS scalability, and operational excellence. Advocate for emerging technologies to sustain a competitive edge.
• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Lead a high performing of business partners and business analysts, to drive strategy and portfolio results, promoting innovation and alignment. Collaborate across IT functions to ensure seamless execution of strategies. Responsible for team leadership, budget and deliverables of IT programs
• Portfolio & Demand Management: Oversee IT project portfolios, aligning initiatives with strategic priorities and resolving conflicts to maintain business vision and strategy integrity.  Responsible for information demand rationalization for the area of responsibility; needs to ensure integrity of business vision and strategy especially when conflicts in priorities occur in geographies from business divisions and geographic, cluster and site alignment.
• Program Oversight & Governance: Sponsor and prioritize IT programs, ensuring delivery within budget and timelines. Support governance standards and IT compliance.  Acts as a member/liaison of the information systems governance group within the respective business.
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