IT Business Partner

Job description

Job Description

Base salary: £40,750 to c£50,950 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

The IT Business Partner role is the voice of IT in the business. The role facilitates engagement with business stakeholders to ensure the operational and developmental needs of the business are fed through the Delivery Integration & Management functions, to enable effective prioritisation decisions to be made and incorporated into directorate plans.

They are responsible for effective communication with business stakeholders, sharing progress throughout initiative delivery, discussing options to efficiently realise capability requirements and ensure realisation of benefits.

About the role

• Actively manage relationships and effective communication with stakeholders in directorates with which they are primarily aligned, gathering holistic information to understand business needs and translate into detailed requirements, supported by Business Analysts as required.
• Support the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans.
• Understand the HS2 IT strategy and Technology Roadmap, translate this into a directorate focussed view and communicate this effectively to business areas to enable informed discussion on their priorities.
• Identify key metrics and mechanisms to measure benefits and forecast, plan and monitor the emergence and effective realisation of anticipated benefits from projects & programmes and product-based initiatives against what was predicted in the business case.
• Facilitate open communication and discussion between stakeholders to assess and promote understanding of needs for future changes in services, products and systems and also attend appropriate business meetings and management forums to understand the varying needs of the business area and raise any potential impacts.
• Build long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitate the engagement of HS2 business stakeholders in support of the delivery of services and change projects.
• Act as a point of contact to the business by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provide informed feedback to assess and promote understanding.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You

Skills:

• Relationship management. Ability to influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. Ability to create and develop long-term strategic relationships to facilitate and deliver business outcomes
• Business analysis (IT operations). Ability to investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes and create recommendations for improvements
• Service Management Framework knowledge. You know about the product life cycle and / or capability elements of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
• Strategic thinking. Ability work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals
• Technical understanding. Ability to show a thorough understanding of the technical concepts required for the role and can explain how these fit into the wider technical landscape.
• User focus. Ability to identify, understand and champion the needs and the desires of the product end-user
• Service focus. Ability to see the bigger picture by taking groups of services and investigating how to get the best of underlying services.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of digital transformation technology, trends and the opportunities they present
• Knowledge of business partnering frameworks and tools
• Knowledge of a variety of IT project delivery methods (E.g. But not limited to, Agile, waterfall)
• Knowledge of the industry, business model, processes, and functional areas.

Type of Experience:

• Experience in building and maintaining internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Experience of engaging stakeholders within a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Experience of working across multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.