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IT Business Partner

Job Id: 541

Contact: Tina Jennings

Salary: £50k

Contract Term: Permanent

Contract Type: Full Time

Expires: 19 March 2015

Location: Hertfordshire

Bailey Finch Associates have pleasure in assisting our client with the role of IT Business Partner within their business. 

The role will involve the following:

To be part of a business focused IT team to delivery strategic business IT solutions, identifying and implementing opportunities to work with common processes.
 
The role will involve collect and use feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management. Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships. Implements a communications strategy, including, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information appropriately.

Your responsibilities

    Engages with customers and stakeholders to seek and record their opinions about products and services supplied.
    Assesses feedback to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management, and highlights issues which need to be addresses.
    Works with customers and stakeholders, seeking to develop and enhance relationships.
    Implements communications strategies, including, for example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and appropriate dissemination of relevant information appropriately.
    Formulation of IT Strategic plans to meet business objectives
    Defining and agreeing the levels of IT services required
    Promoting the use and exploitation of IT
    Redesigning business processes and procedures to improve performance
    Preparing the business case for new investment (both capital and revenue)
    Prioritising each business project
    In conjunction with other Departments define common solutions where appropriate
    Agreeing IT service and project costs with the business and IT suppliers
    Manage business IT projects using project methodology and change management practices
    Advising on IT options and costs for specification in contracts
    Authorise IT system requests for staff
    Demonstrate through behaviour, adherence to the Corporate Code of Conduct throughout all business activities.
    Review and selection of OU projects
    IT Budgets
    Preparation of reports as required to Lead / Senior IT BP & OU Directors

Skills / Knowledge / Experience & Qualifications

    Displays good inter-personal skills, demonstrating the ability to relate to customers in their own language.
    Has project and/or change management experience on technology based projects and/or programmes.
    Experience of working within an Operating Unit at a Senior level
    Working knowledge of OU Business Processes and Practices
    Ideally education to degree level.
    Experience in a similar IT and Managerial role.
    Recognised construction industry experience.
    Recognised Project Management experience.

Your Qualities

    Car-driver with valid full licence.
    Good Communicator at all levels of the organisation
    Ability to focus on Project delivery and drive Projects through to completion
    Good Presentation Skills
    Good Team Leader
    Approachable
    Team Player
    Broad range of experience of use of IT within the Construction Industry
    Customer Focused
    Ability to work closely with OU colleagues, identifying business needs and proposing/delivering solutions
    Results driven
    Strong intellect and commercially aware

This role will involve travelling within the UK a car will be available with the job.

If this sounds of interest to you, please forward your cv in the first instance to Bailey Finch Associates who are acting as a recruitment agency with this vacancy.