ICT Senior Business Partner

Role: ICT Senior Business Partner

Location: Hybrid - Home + 1 to 2 days per week on site (Oxfordshire region)

Salary: £65 - 68K + a comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including excellent Pension, and a wide range of travel and shopping discounts)

Key Skills: Business Relationship Manager / Service Delivery Manager experience, bridging the gap between Business Units and ICT. Technology road mapping, driving User Experience, writing Business Cases, Information Governance and Assurance

Why Apply: This is a great opportunity to join a high-profile Government organisation where you will be bringing your extensive ICT background and ability to discover, analyse, document and drive forward key ICT projects in partnership with key stakeholders so that each Business Unit's ICT needs are met and ICT is optimised at every opportunity.

Our Client: Our Client is government organisation delivering essential services at a local level. They are a technology driven organisation, embracing a wide range of transformation projects to drive continuous improvement in all their operational areas.

The Role: (summary)

• Manage relationships with key stakeholders at all stages of ICT projects, from documenting business cases to driving discovery, project funding, initiation, development and implementation through to benefits realisation and User Experience reporting.
• Line manage an ICT Business Partner
• Lead the ICT portfolio for the relevant Business Units
• Identify gaps / business needs and fully document
• Build ICT technology roadmap awareness across the organisation
• Check information Governance, Assurance and Accessibility
• Understand project costs and subsequent lifecycle costs
• Liaise with Technical Architects to check High Level Design

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Essential:

• 20+ years in ICT management / service delivery / solutions
• 5+ years in similar role as Business Relationship Manager / ICT Business Partner / ICT Service Manager etc., where you have bridged the gap between Business Units and ICT functions
• Excellent relationship building skills with stakeholders
• Experienced in technology road mapping (high level design)
• ITIL v3 or v.4 is essential, (BRMP is desirable but not essential)
• Strong projects portfolio management
• Strong desire to drive User Experience at all times and awareness of the User Journey throughout all new business cases / projects
• Strong supplier management skills, able to take projects delivery to ITT stage if needed
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to liaise confidently across the team and a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience with associated ICT costs and ability to drive effective solutions based on improved services, cost-efficiency and benefits realisation
• Energy and drive to engage with all key stakeholders and deliver the best ICT solutions to each business need
• 5+ years UK residency, (with no extended periods outside of the UK), in order to meet the necessary level of security vetting required.

** You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years in order to meet the security vetting required for this role **