IT Business Relationship Manager – Data and Analytics

Abbott•Lake Forest, IL

22h•Onsite

About The Position

The IT Business Relationship Manager (BRM) will serve as the strategic technology partner to the ARDx organization, with a primary focus on data strategy, data governance, and analytics enablement. This role is responsible for aligning IT capabilities with ARDx business objectives, advancing the organization’s maturity in data use, ethics, governance, and analytics. In this role, you will collaborate with ARDx business stakeholders, cross‑functional teams, and IT delivery partners to drive standard reporting practices, support advanced analytics capabilities, and guide data platform, privacy, and application lifecycle strategies. You will also engage directly with ARDx business clients to understand the data landscape, identify opportunities to eliminate data silos, and foster a transparent, accessible, and results‑driven data culture. You will: Ensure data and analytics practices comply with applicable statutes, regulations, internal policies, and professional standards. Support and promote ethical use, publication, and consumption of data across the organization. Champion the secure and appropriate democratization of trusted data across Abbott and partner organizations to advance strategic business objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Computer Science, AI, Business Administration, or another discipline relevant to the Healthcare industry.
8-10 years of IT experience in large or midsized multinational Pharmaceutical or Health Care organizations.
Ability to collaborate with business stakeholders, understand business strategy/processes, and look for innovative solutions to drive business enhancements for internal business users and external customers.
Strong experience defining and implementing Information Management practices around records management & retention, master data, data governance, and data quality, data privacy.
Experience working effectively with management setting IT strategy and business-IT alignment.
Proven experience and understanding of the complete software life cycle, including privacy and security aspects.
Successfully managed data related project portfolios.
Intermediate skills in SharePoint and PowerBI.
Experience leading teams/projects.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
Proven leadership skills, self-directed with a strong work ethic.
Strong organizational skills and proven ability to multi-task across multiple programs successfully.

Nice To Haves

Project management experience - both with direct and indirect responsibility.
Advanced Analytics domain expertise to include BDAA, IoT and AI/ML.
Exposure to programming languages like Shell, Scala, Python, and SQL is a plus.
Intermediate skills in advanced analytics tools and techniques, Data Bricks, AWS, and Azure.
Data Use Ethics and Governance facilitation.
Experience with vendor management.

Responsibilities

Understand people, processes, and technologies required for data use, governance objectives, standard reporting and analytics, big data and advanced analytics capability management, data platform, privacy and application lifecycle strategy.
Influences and partners with businesses to understand business strategy and maintains an active portfolio roadmap tied to an investment schedule.
Interacts regularly with business stakeholders to ensure needs are understood and IT updates are communicated consistently.
Understands and contributes to the business strategy and translates it into an aligned IT strategy and portfolio of programs, projects, and applications.
Manage initiatives that span virtual teams across the world and cross cultures.
Resolve issues raised to the governance committees of projects to ensure proper resolutions.
Proactively reviews business processes; elicits, analyzes, and documents business requirements; works with IT Architecture and delivery to identify alternative solutions; assesses feasibility; and makes recommendations typically seeking to exploit and leverage new or existing IT technology components.
Champions change and innovation. Stimulates creativity and innovation in others. Open to new ideas.
Manages IT budgets, project capital/RCE expenditures and ROI. Continually looks for opportunities for cost reductions and cost avoidance.
Manage issues, risks and decision making within effective timeframe and outcome.
Manage conflict, prioritize, and negotiate with Business and IT stakeholders.
Establishes and maintains productive relationships across the Abbott IT organization and external suppliers.
Constant awareness of corporate IT standards, technology trends, evolving regulatory requirements and their applicability to the business process and IT portfolio, and influences the IT stakeholders and partners in addressing these evolutions in the most efficient way.