**Job Details**
**IT **Regional **Business Relationship **Manager (BRM)
**Job Summary
The Business Relationship Management function has the responsibility to define, establish and maintaining a relationship between IT and the business, and to increase the value realized from IT assets, investments, and capabilities. The BRM is responsible for understanding the business, assisting in the prioritization of projects, ensuring that projects align with the technology that provides maximum return on investment and directing IT strategy in support of the overall business strategy always making sure there is alignment with IT Corporate Strategy. The BRM must be seen and valued as a trusted advisor to the business units.
In addition, he or she could manage a team of IT specialists, Business Analysts or coordinate cross functional teams (local, regional, and or integral) who provide the required system development and integration services. The BRM supervises the design, implementation and maintenance of an integrated IT system and ensures the proper methodology is used to deliver the projects and initiatives ensuring all project management framework is followed accordingly.
**Primary Duties or Responsibilities
- Business Relationship Management _
- Develop and manage the relationship between I T and internal and external partners (business units, service providers)
- Identify and leverage I T synergy potentials across countries, regions, business units, and corporate strategies
- Ensure the business units understand the existing and proposed solution, overall solution delivery, and compliance to governance processes, architecture standards, etc.
- Prepare, Develop and Support the business in cost-benefit analyses for projects and assist business stakeholders in prioritizing projects submitted through the stablished demand management process.
- Work with stakeholders and project teams to prioritize requirements (within projects)
- Research, review, analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes, and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes
- Participate in the IT annual budgeting and planning process for the assigned business units, and tracks IT spend.
- Participate in trials and the piloting of new tools; provide appropriate support and expertise in testing procedures and the development of appropriate testing standards, testing and distribution, implementation, and reporting; tracking and project planning support.
- Participate and collaborate with other global functions to ensure the proper development of operating and capital budgets; conduct strategic, risk and/or contingency planning analyses and discuss and align with global function leaders in the proper allocation of the required support structure.
- Look for opportunities to leverage technology to achieve business unit objectives.
- Stay abreast of new technologies and their ability to provide a competitive edge to assigned systems. Communicate to business leaders of relevant IT innovations.
- Co-work with business leaders to ensure that new technology solutions and platforms are well adopted and contribute towards benefits as planned.
- Management and Strategic Planning _
- If applicable, m anage the unit of experts in their respective fields of expertise (at the junior, intermediate and senior levels); ensure that services are provided to the respective business unit.
- Establish unit objectives and priorities, develop, implement, and monitor work plans and coordinate all human resources management activities including staffing, classification, orientation, staff development and formal training; review and approve technical strategies and requirements submitted by staff; conduct appraisals and performance reviews of staff. Hire, evaluate new staff through the probationary period, recommend termination and discipline staff.
- As required, manage project teams and working groups; identify requirements, chair meetings, set objectives and goals and timetables; monitor and evaluate the quality, accuracy and outcome of work;
- Monitor expenditures and resources utilization, analyze resources issues and problems and develop alternative resourcing approaches and prepare ad-hoc reports.
- Contribute to the content and details of agreements, and how the resulting resources are to be allocated to deliver more effective services to the internal customers. Within the delegated authority, approve expenditures and validate invoices for the acquisition of goods and services rendered in accordance with IT contracts specifications.
- If applicable, a uthorize overtime, leave, and travel for staff; negotiate the extent and level of service (in the case of a consulting contract), and evaluate and select the best proposal; In conjunction with the other IT Leaders reviews budgetary spending and recommends the appropriate changes to maintain the budget.
- Communications _
- Represent the Business Unit in inte