Business Relationship Lead - Analytics CoE (Alajuela, Costa Rica)

at  Smith Nephew

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The business relationship Lead (BRL) has shared ownership with the Functional Delivery Lead for both business strategy and business value results. The BRL helps the Business Relationship Manager (BRM) manage stakeholder relationships and serves as a single point of focus, working to converge functions such as IT, HR, finance, GBS, quality, etc. and one or more lines of business or value streams. This is achieved by stimulating, surfacing, and shaping demand for capabilities and assets, in addition to ensuring that the potential business value from those capabilities and assets are captured, optimized, and recognized.
Through effective relationship management capabilities, the BRL fills in for the BRM and contributes to the business leadership team by actively partnering with business peers to determine strategic direction. They work to identify ways in which the BRL’s function can support and advance business objectives.
Additionally, the BRL helps shape business demand into supply by 1) partnering with appropriate resources to facilitate the creation of idea documents, business cases, and value plans; 2) ensuring value optimization and communication; and 3) enabling continuous improvement in all areas and people around them.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, or relevant field
• MBA or related qualification is a plus.
• Graduate degree or progressive educational certificate
• Business Relationship Management Professional (BRMP®) is nice to have.
• Certified Business Relationship Manager (CBRM®) is nice to have.
• Master of Business Relationship Management (MBRM®) is nice to have.

EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of functional experience in a Supply Chain business function.
• 2+ years of experience facilitating the development and implementation of business initiatives and projects, based on management objectives.
• Supply Chain process and traditional KPIs.
• Scrum/Agile development methodologies and project management preferred.
• Experience with Power BI capability, functionality, and design
• Interacting and presenting to senior leadership.
• Thinking strategically and persuading and implementing said strategy.
• IT lifecycle principles.
• Flexible working hours are required to accommodate both European and American time zones.
• Fluent in English.

• Partner & Relationship Management - Leveraging the business framework, ensure customers’ current and future needs are met, providing solutions for the desired business outcomes and setting/meeting realistic timelines. Ensure conflicting stakeholder requirements are mediated appropriately, handling stakeholders’ complaints and escalations well through a sympathetic (yet formal) process. Onboard new leaders, by showing them how we work, what analytics are available, and helping them gain access to and understanding of the analytics. Develop mutual trust by meeting regularly with functional leadership to ensure needs are being met, provide updates on current work, and capture/log future demand.
• Analytics Community Engagement and Governance - Actively engage, contribute, and be the go-to analytics community leader for your vertical. Stay active in the community to ensure that what individuals in the community are developing compliments, rather than overlaps with other efforts across the business. Train and help ensure that data sources being used are approved and being used correctly to keep alignment across all analytics.
• Business Architecture & Platforms - Shape demand from the business to fit into the framework developed by the Analytics Steering Co and work cross functionally with business analysts, engineers, and the IT data team to develop new and improve existing dashboards and technology using the tools available. Oversee the governance, maintenance, change and release management services for the solutions in your business domain.