Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

D&A Transformation and Simplification

• Advise senior leadership on and help shape the multi-year transformation and simplification roadmap for the Data & Analytics landscape aligned with enterprise architecture cybersecurity data governance cloud and business priorities.
• Create a transparent baseline of platforms applications data products integrations infrastructure costs ownership usage technical debt and lifecycle status.
• Lead portfolio rationalization to eliminate redundancy retire legacy technologies consolidate vendors and platforms simplify interfaces and standardize repeatable capabilities.
• Establish decision criteria governance sequencing dependencies investment cases and measurable benefits for simplification initiatives.
• Coordinate execution across architecture engineering product operations security finance procurement legal and business teams. Identify cross-functional barriers and escalate with recommended resolutions..
• Track adoption decommissioning cost reduction productivity reliability and value realization; intervene when outcomes are off plan.
• Embed continuous improvement automation lean operating practices and reusable standards into the organizations ways of working.

Operating Rhythm and Governance

• Facilitate and support monthly operating reviews and other leadership cadences including agenda development performance narratives decision logs action tracking and executive follow-up.
• Develop integrated dashboards and concise executive reporting across strategy delivery operations service performance financials risks talent and transformation benefits.
• Maintain clear governance ownership escalation paths and accountability across the portfolio.
• Translate complex operational and technical information into actionable insights decisions and communications for varied audiences.

Financial Portfolio and Project Management

• Support annual planning forecasting budgeting accruals investment prioritization and variance management for the organization.
• Improve cost transparency by linking spend capacity service consumption and investments to business outcomes and transformation priorities.
• Establish portfolio and project-management disciplines covering scope schedule budget dependencies risks issues resources outcomes and benefits.
• Provide provide evaluative analysis and recommendations for high-priority or at-risk initiatives to accountable leaders.
• Partner with finance and functional leaders to identify productivity opportunities and ensure savings are validated and sustained.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Coordinate Data & Analytics support for acquisitions divestitures and integrations including discovery due diligence separation or integration planning Day 1 readiness transition services and post-close execution.
• Assess target-state implications across data analytics applications infrastructure security privacy governance licensing vendors and operating models.
• Build integrated plans cost estimates risks decision points and executive updates in partnership with corporate development legal finance cybersecurity architecture and business teams.
• Use transaction events to accelerate landscape simplification and avoid introducing new duplication or technical debt.

Vendor and Commercial Management

• Monitor and advise on strategic suppliers performance statements of work contract obligations service levels performance capacity risks renewals and commercial outcomes.
• Partner with sourcing procurement legal finance security and technical owners on negotiations demand consolidation license optimization and supplier rationalization.
• Establish scorecards and regular business reviews that connect supplier performance to reliability delivery innovation simplification and cost objectives.
• Identify and mitigate concentration continuity compliance and third-party risks.

Communications and Change Leadership

• Develop a clear transformation narrative and integrated communication plan for leaders employees business partners and suppliers.
• Prepare executive presentations organizational updates decision papers talking points FAQs and recognition communications.
• Build stakeholder alignment through structured engagement active listening transparent trade-offs and timely escalation.
• Promote adoption of simplified platforms and processes through change-impact assessment readiness planning training coordination and feedback loops.

Measures of Success

• Reduction in applications platforms tools integrations vendors legacy assets and technical debt.
• Validated run-cost and license savings avoided costs productivity gains and improved investment mix.
• Percentage of targeted assets retired and workloads migrated to strategic platforms on schedule.
• Improved reliability security posture data quality compliance cycle time and user adoption.
• Accurate forecasts disciplined portfolio execution timely decisions and closure of operating-review actions.
• M&A milestones achieved with controlled risk minimal business disruption and target-state alignment.
• Improved supplier performance contractual value and stakeholder confidence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in information technology computer science engineering business finance or a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Significant experience in digital technology data and analytics technology operations transformation portfolio management or a related field within a large complex organization.
• Demonstrated success leading technology simplification application or platform rationalization modernization cloud migration cost optimization or operating-model transformation.
• Strong command of financial planning business cases forecasting portfolio governance project and program management and benefit realization.
• Experience managing strategic vendors contracts statements of work service levels and commercial performance.
• Working knowledge of modern data and analytics ecosystems including cloud platforms data engineering business intelligence AI/ML governance cybersecurity privacy and enterprise architecture.
• Excellent written verbal analytical facilitation and executive-presentation skills.
• Proven ability to influence across functions and levels manage ambiguity challenge constructively and deliver outcomes without direct authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree or relevant certifications in project or program management agile delivery lean finance cloud data management architecture or IT service management.
• Experience supporting mergers acquisitions divestitures integrations or transition service agreements.
• Experience working across global teams regulated environments and matrixed operating models.
• Familiarity with product operating models FinOps technology business management service management and organizational change management.

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