IT Business Partner at HRL Laboratories

The IT Business Partner will build and maintain strong relationships with business unit leaders and stakeholders to understand their goals, challenges, and technology needs, collaborating with business leaders and stakeholders and IT to ensure initiatives are set up for success and align with the corporate strategy. This role will conduct regular assessments to understand business requirements and priorities and to develop a strategy to ensure business objectives are met, engaging with business units, Information Systems, and Project Management to define and document objectives for joint strategic efforts. The IT Business Partner will identify and manage risks, issues, and opportunities, coordinate with business and functions to approve mitigation plans or changes to commitments, understand and prioritize needs, resources, and support for business-critical Information Systems requirements, and develop deep domain knowledge of their partner's organizational functions. They will also manage, prioritize, and coordinate business requirements with stakeholders, facilitate status updates on enterprise-wide policy changes, communicate resource availability, advocate as a champion of change for their partners' strategic plans, and ensure business units and project management teams are aligned with consistent updates, manage projects and outstanding tasks, schedules, and provide updates, and maintain creativity and innovation to stay on top of industry and technology trends.