Director, TBM Strategy – Planning

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a strategic business partner in the development of IT strategies, vendor governance, and ongoing cost optimization efforts.

• Lead analysis driven by data and provide recommendations for optimizing long-term operating expenses and delivery models.

• Oversee professional staff engaged in strategy implementation, vendor governance, and Technology Business Management (TBM) services.

• Mentor team members, offering continuous feedback, supporting their development, and facilitating succession planning.

• Establish and nurture relationships with IT and business leaders to enhance decision-making related to technology strategy.

• Direct the definition of projects, generate ideas, and develop business cases for roadmaps targeting cost optimization.

• Conduct both quantitative and qualitative analyses to provide actionable insights and recommendations.

• Examine technology, market, and industry trends that impact the business landscape.

• Plan and execute workstreams for projects defined by management and across the enterprise.

• Supervise presentations and strategic communications addressing critical IT topics.

• Spearhead strategic vendor analysis and selection, peer benchmarking, cloud migration strategies, and infrastructure automation evaluations.

• Drive service-costing strategies and the implementation of Technology Business Management capabilities.

• Collaborate with the TBM Analytics team to align management reporting with business and technology strategies.

• Leverage TBM software functionalities to enhance understanding of IT performance, costs, quality, and value.

• Develop and maintain service-costing processes for annual planning and managing technology service demands.

• Enhance forecasting of consumption and the quality of operational data to align total-cost-of-ownership analyses with cost-transparency goals.

• Present IT service consumption data, volumes, and allocation drivers to management through effective presentations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Management Information Systems, Business Analytics, or Operations Research.

• 8–10 years of progressive experience in Finance, Strategy, or Management Consulting, or a comparable combination of education and relevant experience.

• Proven experience leading high-performance teams tasked with executing strategic initiatives.

• Prior experience in Technology Business Management (TBM) or advisory roles for CIOs.

• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments while proposing, justifying, initiating, and implementing changes.

• Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Capability to frame problems, analyze solutions, and construct detailed financial models.

• Knowledge of strategic IT planning and financial management practices, including budgeting, cost allocations, capital and operational expense management, and funding models based on product roadmaps or capabilities.

• Familiarity with IT domains and services.

• Advanced proficiency in SQL, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and Alteryx.

• Strong project management and organizational abilities.

• Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills.

• Strong influencing capabilities.

• Professional certification preferred: CMA, CSCA, FP&A, Balanced Scorecard certification, CTBME, ITIL, or IT4IT.

• Familiarity with Apptio is a plus.

• Candidates must be bondable.

• A criminal background check and verification of employment, education, and licenses are required as a condition of employment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.

• Annual incentive bonus program.

• Generous paid time off.

• 11 holidays each year.

• 2 wellness days annually.

• 8 hours of volunteer time annually.

• Increased paid time off with tenure.

• Opportunities for career advancement and growth.

• Paid parental leave.

• Assistance for adoption and surrogacy.

• Employee giving program that matches donations to eligible nonprofits and educational institutions at double the amount.