IT Business Partner Professional

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Strategic alignment and roadmapping: Translate business strategy into an IT capability and application roadmap aligned with regulatory, risk, and data governance requirements. Facilitate quarterly IT-business steering committee meetings to review progress, trade-offs, and benefits.
• Demand management and portfolio governance: Own the intake and prioritization process for IT initiatives from assigned business areas. Lead business case development, ROI analysis, cost-benefit assessments, and benefits mapping. Maintain a prioritized IT backlog aligned to strategy, with clear acceptance criteria and value metrics.
• Solution discovery and requirements management: Gather, document, and translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and success criteria. Collaborate with IT Architecture, Data & Analytics, Security, and Compliance to shape fit-for-purpose solutions.
• Program and project delivery governance: Partner with Project Managers, Business Analysts and Apps Managers on program execution, monitor progress, and ensure solutions are delivered on time, on budget, and with expected quality. Facilitate assurance activities (design reviews, quality gates, test plans, user acceptance testing).
• Financial management: Manage budgets for assigned business areas, forecast demand, monitor actuals, and support vendor negotiations and contract management where applicable. Track and report on value delivered, cost savings, efficiency gains, and overall ROI.
• Risk, security, and regulatory alignment: Ensure IT changes comply with risk management, information security, privacy, and regulatory requirements (e.g., Solvency II, GDPR as applicable). Communicate risk implications to business leaders and coordinate with risk and compliance teams.

You will report to Change Delivery Lead.

What you will BRING

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Experience: Relevant years of experience in IT-business partnership, IT PMO, business relationship management, or a similar role; experience in the insurance/reinsurance domain is highly desirable.
• Certifications (preferred but not mandatory): PMP/PRINCE2, ITIL foundation or higher, or other project/program management certifications; domain-relevant certifications (e.g., CBIP, CISM) are a plus.
• Understanding of reinsurance concepts (treaties, underwriting workflows, claims processes, actuarial data, risk management) and regulatory/compliance context.
• Robust business acumen, strategic thinking, and ability to translate business needs into IT solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication; negotiation and influence; analytical and problem-solving skills.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with data governance, data analytics platforms, and modern data architectures.
• Familiarity with cloud concepts, cybersecurity fundamentals, and data privacy regulations relevant to insurance.
• Stakeholder management and narrative storytelling to explain technology value
• Even if you don't meet all of the requirements, but you have transferable skills we encourage you to apply and explain how your background aligns with the role.