IT Business Operations Lead

About Us

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Overview

Job Summary: Spearhead improvements in IT efficiency and project delivery as our IT Business Operations Lead. You will be instrumental in analyzing and automating business processes that operate outside of our central ERP and CRM systems. This role involves leading the charge on our multi-team Azure DevOps environment, contributing significantly to the design and rollout of IT governance, guiding workload prioritization efforts, delivering key IT projects, managing financial tracking, and generating portfolio-level status reports. If you excel at driving process optimization and leveraging tools like Azure DevOps across multiple teams, this is your opportunity to make a substantial impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive Non-Core Process Automation: Analyze business processes external to ERP and CRM platforms, identifying key opportunities for automation and leading the implementation of solutions to enhance operational efficiency.
• Lead Azure DevOps Adoption & Optimization (Multi-Team): Own and steer the effective use of Azure DevOps across multiple teams. Facilitate aligned sprint planning, manage backlogs, ensure clear progress tracking, and foster strong collaboration practices within the tool.
• Contribute to IT Governance Design & Implementation: Play a key role in designing, documenting, and implementing IT processes and control frameworks that uphold governance standards and mitigate risks.
• Guide Workload Prioritization: Assist leadership in prioritizing the IT workload across diverse teams and initiatives, ensuring focus aligns with business value and capacity.
• Deliver Key IT Projects: Manage and execute a range of IT projects, ensuring they meet objectives, stay within budget and schedule, and deliver the intended value.
• Manage IT Financial Tracking: Handle IT financial administration, including gathering cost data, contributing to budget forecasting, and preparing budget-to-actual reports.
• Generate Portfolio Summary Reports: Create and distribute clear summary reports detailing the progress, status, and key performance indicators of ongoing IT work from a portfolio perspective.
• Process Improvement: Identifying and implementing opportunities for continuous improvement in IT governance processes and practices.

• Training: Developing and delivering training and awareness programs on IT governance policies and procedures to employees
• Emerging Technologies: Monitoring and assessing the governance implications of emerging technologies and recommending appropriate policies and controls.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years in IT business operations
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Proven ability to gather and document user requirements
• Demonstrated experience in project management and sprint planning
• Experience contributing significantly to the development of IT governance processes
• Experience guiding or assisting with workload prioritization
• Experience creating summary reports on work status
• Understanding of IT governance frameworks such as COBIT and ITIL

Desired Qualifications:

• 10 years in IT business operations
• Expertise with Azure DevOps in a multi-team environment
• Experience managing cross-functional IT teams
• Experience designing or leading IT demand management
• Experience in a manufacturing environment

Salary Range:

$75,000 - $128,000

The pay range listed is for Illinois based roles.  It is not typical for a candidate to be hired at or near the top of the pay range.  Specific compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including skill sets, qualifications, experience, education, certifications, training, and location.

Benefits:

• 401(k) company match
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life and disability insurance
• Paid time off

EEO Statement

ProDriven Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. ProDriven Brands  is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All qualified applicants to ProDriven Brands are considered for employment without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.  ProDriven Brands will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind based on these characteristics.

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Salary : $75,000 - $128,000