Job ID:  491652

Exempt

 

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

 

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Position Overview

 

We are seeking a Manager, Business Relationship Management (BRM), to join our growing Information Technology (IT) organization. In this position, you will create a bridge between our business stakeholders and Information Technology teams through building partnerships with leaders, driving value, ensuring IT is plugged into strategic initiatives, drive toward collaboration and a culture of creativity, innovation, and value that fulfils our organizational purpose to reinvent the way our world is built.

 

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

 

• People Management:
  • Provide leadership and knowledge empowerment for direct reports
  • Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration among team members
  • Hold team members accountable for assigned relationships, tasks, and projects
  • Perform quarterly and annual performance reviews for each team member.

 

• Build Partnerships:
  • Partner with senior leaders both inside and outside of the Oldcastle Infrastructure organization to collaborate and ensure meaningful results from our strategic initiatives
  • Own the strategic relationship between IT and business stakeholders to stimulate, surface, and shape demand.
  • Develop or leverage existing domain knowledge of your business partner’s organizational function
  • Build cross functional relationships for the convergence of value
  • Partner with individuals, teams, and external organizations to drive value and results
  • Maintains partner confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
  • Coach business leaders on how to communicate to IT specifics of what they need to improve business performance

 

• Drive Value:
  • Partner with organizational leaders to identify opportunities to evaluate, sequence, and shape initiatives for strategic value.
  • Identify business value rather than solutions when developing ideas; focus on digital awareness, risk assessment, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
  • Innovate using knowledge and awareness of industry trends to identify new opportunities
  • Define and review requirements with business transformation teams
  • Monitor initiative progress to ensure expectations are aligned with results and ultimately value
  • Ensure that allies in strategic purpose are knowledgeable about objectives; engage as a project/program major partner including evaluating development efforts and progress against strategic plans and value creation objectives
  • Drive and ensure results across the business and technology organizations based on the principals or people, process, technology, and purpose
  • Monitors project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, and recommending actions.

 

• Strategic Alignment:
  • Validate the results of initiatives to support the organization strategy through business case development, financial awareness, managing expectations, and the identification of opportunities for added value.
  • Strategize with business partners to develop future technology roadmaps and explore new opportunities
  • Coach and encourage business leaders to articulate their department vision and requirements to align and drive IT contribution to organizational strategy
  • Develop a well-managed portfolio of initiatives with the PMO organization.

 

• Change Management:
  • Champion a culture of shared ownership of initiatives involving technology and of getting comfortable with organizational change
  • Elevate the importance of effective communication across IT and business stakeholders
  • Lead now-to-new change using positive