What are the responsibilities and job description for the US IT Business Partner and Digital Transformation Advisor position at WSP?
The US IT Business Partner and Digital Transformation Advisor is a pivotal leadership role within the WSP’s global IT organization. The position carries the dual responsibility of overseeing Business Relationship Management activities for the region and supporting the digital transformation efforts. The US IT Business Partner and Digital Transformation Advisor acts as the key spokesperson for IT in the US, working to align technology solutions to business needs, helping craft and execute internal digital transformation activities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the business, and working collaboratively with other digital leaders to help ideate and prioritize revenue-producing digital solutions.
Leadership & decision-making responsibilities
- Foster strong relationships with regional business stakeholders, including senior executives, and capture their evolving needs and strategic objectives.
- Partner closely with business leaders to align IT initiatives with the region's business. objectives, ensuring that IT contributes to the region's success.
- Collaborate with service hub and enterprise IT stakeholders and to ensure fulfillment of business needs, and adoption of global solutions and standards in the most cost-effective way possible.
- Partner with IT and business leadership to define strategic objectives and secure necessary financing for technology investments.
- Provide guidance on digital transformation and the appropriate application of AI.
- Work with all appropriate stakeholders to craft an internal digital transformation strategy and roadmap.
- Partner with the enterprise IT function to establish and maintain transparent financial reporting.
- Strengthen valuable relationships between IT and business stakeholders.
- Ensure efficient daily IT service delivery of the regional IT unit with high quality and good performance.
- Oversee the general direction of regional projects and plans.
- Ensure continuous identification and mitigation of risks, as well as the development of business continuity plans for critical IT services.
- Manage and develop the regional IT function's staff and performance.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging trends and best practices in both technology and the digital AEC space and leverage this knowledge to drive innovation and create value for the organization.
Other Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures, and standards, and promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement in management.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork, encouraging open communication, knowledge-sharing, and cross-functional problem-solving to achieve common goals.
- Promote a safe and healthy work environment that prioritizes employee well-being and work-life balance.
- Develop and lead unit employees by monitoring individual performance, ensuring individual development plans, providing mentorship, and leading the recruitment process with appropriate onboarding.
- Adhere to company policies, including conducting systematic occupational health and safety work, reporting and taking prompt corrective action on risks, logging and reporting long term actions, and participating in department-wide talent management and succession planning.
- Ability to communicate to both operations-oriented employees and business executives, as well as employees across business regions and enterprise functions.
- Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including internal customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure effective collaboration and alignment.
- Foster a culture of effective communication within the IT organization to engage and inform employees.
- Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to promote the organization's use of technology and position it as an industry leader.
- Standardize IT policies, procedures, and documentation across the organization.
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business management, or a related field. (or equivalent experience).
- 17 years of relevant post education experience within Information Technology or a similar field.
- Experience in the A/E/C or IT industry.
- Developed analytical and organizational skills with business acumen to bridge businesses together.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
- Ability to work schedules conducive to job-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical work week.
- Occasional travel may be required depending on job-specific requirements.
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
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WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
