Business Relationship Manager – IT

Job Description

As a Business Relationship Manager (BRM), you play a pivotal role at the intersection of business and IT, ensuring that technology truly enables and accelerates business objectives. You act as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders, translating business needs into effective IT solutions and vice versa. By building strong, trust-based relationships, you gain a deep understanding of the challenges, ambitions, and priorities within your assigned business domains.

In this role, you do not only respond to demand, but actively shape it. You anticipate future needs, identify opportunities for innovation and digital transformation, and guide the business in leveraging IT capabilities to create tangible value. You bring visibility into IT’s potential, making complex topics understandable and actionable for non-technical stakeholders.

You are instrumental in aligning business strategy with IT strategy, ensuring that initiatives are prioritized effectively and delivered in a controlled and value-driven manner. From early ideation and business case development through to implementation and value realization, you are closely involved in key initiatives and decisions.

By acting as a trusted advisor and advocate, you ensure that the voice of the business is represented within IT, while also helping the business navigate IT processes, governance, and possibilities. In doing so, you contribute directly to improving performance, driving innovation, and strengthening the overall partnership between business and IT.

Your responsibilities Business Relationship Manager

• Act as the primary interface between IT and assigned business domains, building strong and trusted relationships with key stakeholders.
• Co-develop and actively promote the IT vision, including relevant trends, innovations, and developments within the business.
• Provide strategic and tactical advice on IT-related topics and business initiatives.
• Facilitate the preparation, evaluation, and governance of business cases and IT demand.
• Translate business needs into IT requirements and contribute to an optimal project and application portfolio roadmap.
• Develop and maintain business IT plans and oversee their successful implementation.
• Monitor progress of initiatives, proactively addressing deviations from plans where needed.
• Ensure effective communication to stakeholders on priorities, progress, risks, budgets, and compliance.
• Advocate for the business within IT to ensure services and solutions meet expectations and deliver value.
• Drive value realization from IT investments and promote continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with relevant SHE-Q policies and standards.

Your qualities and experience

You are a proactive, strategic thinker with strong stakeholder management skills and a solid understanding of both business processes and IT landscapes.

You also have:

• A completed bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience in a Business Relationship Manager, IT Business Partner, or similar role.
• Strong understanding of IT strategy, demand management, and project/portfolio management.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders at different levels.
• Experience with governance processes and business case development.
• A value-driven mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

What you can expect

• A dynamic environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact.
• Rewarding conditions: A competitive salary and much more, including holiday allowance, holiday entitlement of 26 days (based on a full-time contract) and a number of collective scheduled days off, a non-contributory pension scheme, collective schemes such as company health insurance and a leased car.
• Career development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself for example through (online) courses at our Boskalis academy.  
• The Boskalis campus: Experience the unique Boskalis vibe at our Papendrecht site, complete with restaurants, sports field, and a wharf where our vessels dock. We offer a state-of-the-art auditorium, brainstorming rooms, experience center for client meetings, and a barista corner where you can connect with colleagues.
• Young Boskalis: Are you under 36? Come and join Young Boskalis! Have fun and join in social and sports activities ranging from pub quizzes to yoga, bootcamps and an annual sailing boat race. Networking and knowledge sharing are a vital part of Young Boskalis as well.

Extra information

• Your team: In this position you will be a member of a small team and you will report to the CIO.
• Where you will work: For office-based roles, in consultation with your manager and your team, you work partly at home and partly in the office.
• Full/part-time job: The position of Business Relationship Manager is a full-time job (40 hours a week).
• Next steps: Apply easily by completing the online application form. Interviews are held online or in the office. Once it’s clear we’re a good match, we’ll make you an offer – and look forward to welcoming you to the company.

Additional Information

Want to know more
We’ll be happy to answer your questions about the position of Business Relationship Manager. Please contact Robert Smits, senior corporate recruiter via phone number 078-696 83 98.

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Disclaimer for Recruiters and Recruitment Agencies
We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.