Senior Business Relationship Consultant
Anglo Technical Recruitment
Location
Reading, Berkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
This contract with our central government client is for a Senior Business Relationship Consultant for 18 months. The role is located in Reading and requires around 2 days onsite with the rest remote.
Key Accountabilities:
- Accountable for developing and maintaining effective relationships with business partners.
- Gaining an understanding of business drivers and key events, and align the provision of IS services accordingly.
- Leads the IS function in the development and negotiation of annual commitments; thereafter acts as proxy customer within IS to stimulate to the delivery of agreed initiatives.
- Contributes to business strategic planning and road mapping; influence business partner strategy through awareness of IS services and new technology capabilities; influence IS service development through awareness of business partner direction.
- Achieves excellence in communication and engagement.
- Maintains and promotes high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
- Additional accountabilities for this job profile may be defined and appointed through the Chief Engineer Management Arrangements, with appointees listed within the Company Design Authorities and Technical Authorities, as held in the company management system.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creation and maintenance of roadmaps which describe the key business drivers, and the IS services that will be provided in response.
- Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships; a trusted member of the business partner unit.
- Increasing awareness within business partners of IS products and services, and how these can support the business now and in the future.
- Facilitate productive stakeholder connections and mobilize projects and programs; active engagement rather than passive response.
- Proxy customer, representing the needs of the business partner, influencing development and delivery of IS services through progress reporting to IS Management.
Requirements
Top essential requirements:
- Stakeholder/Relationship Management
- Managing Demand
- IT Background and understanding of tech lingo
Minimum Requirement:
- Needs Gravitas/senior experience.
- Relationship Manager experience.
- Stakeholder Management – stakeholders of many levels/backgrounds
- Managing demand
- Communication skills
- Good IT knowledge – not a tech expert but must be able to translate ‘tech speak’ into general business speak.
- Understand tech lingo.
- Not commercial but still a negotiation role
- Beneficial if has worked in public sector/highly regulated environment.
- Experience more important than qualifications
- Planning experience
- Great if has nuclear background/experience but not essential
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