IT Business Relationship Director – Corporate Functions (m/f/d)

Abbott; Dublin; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott in Ireland seeks an IT Business Relationship Director for Corporate Functions. This senior role links business strategy with technology execution across global corporate functions, partnering with executive leaders to shape roadmaps, prioritize demand, and guide investments.

You will translate complex requirements into practical plans, drive alignment with IT, security, compliance, finance, vendors and delivery teams, and ensure IT delivers measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership in IT with business-focused mindset.
• Experience aligning technology with strategic business outcomes.
• Experience with global, matrixed pharma/healthcare environments.

Responsibilities

• Executive partnership with senior functional leaders.
• Translate strategies into IT roadmaps and investment plans.
• Prioritize and govern IT demand across regions.
• Shape business cases, track benefits, and manage costs.
• Ensure delivery with quality, speed, and accountability.
• Ensure cybersecurity, compliance, and risk-management standards.
• Provide clear executive communication on priorities and progress.

Skills

IT leadership

Business relationship management

Digital transformation

Enterprise applications

Technology strategy

Stakeholder influence

Financial governance

Vendor management

English communication

Tools

SAP ECC/S/4HANA

ERP systems

Job description

At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 114,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 160 countries we serve.

Role Summary

IT Business Relationship Director - Corporate Functions (m/f/d)

The IT Business Relationship Director for Corporate Functions is a senior leadership role that connects business strategy with technology execution across EPD corporate functions. The role partners with senior business leaders shaping functional roadmaps, prioritize demand, guide technology investments, and ensure IT solutions deliver measurable business value.

This position is ideal for a strategic, business-oriented technology leader who can operate confidently with executive stakeholders, translate complex needs into practical roadmaps, and drive alignment across business, IT, security, compliance, finance, vendors, and delivery teams.

Mission and Impact

The mission of the role is to ensure Corporate Functions have the technology strategy, governance, capabilities, and execution discipline needed to advance business priorities. The Director will build trusted relationships with functional leaders, anticipate emerging needs, and convert business ambitions into clear technology roadmaps and investment choices.

• Define and maintain three-to-five-year IT roadmaps aligned with functional and geographic strategies.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve business processes through scalable technology.
• Lead demand shaping, prioritization, and portfolio alignment across regional and global governance forums.
• Drive business cases, value realization, risk visibility, cost transparency, and executive communication.
• Represent the voice of the business while ensuring alignment with enterprise IT, security, compliance, and architecture standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Executive partnership : Build trusted relationships with senior functional leaders, understand business priorities, and ensure technology enables measurable outcomes.
• Strategy and roadmap ownership : Translate functional strategies into practical IT roadmaps, investment plans, and sequencing decisions.
• Demand and portfolio leadership : Consolidate, assess, prioritize, and govern business technology demand through strong portfolio discipline.
• Business value and financial stewardship : Shape business cases, track benefits, manage total cost of ownership, and ensure budget transparency.
• Delivery alignment : Partner with IT delivery, PMO, operations, vendors, and corporate technology teams to ensure initiatives are delivered with quality, speed, and clear accountability.
• Risk, security, and compliance : Ensure solutions and services comply with cybersecurity, compliance, data, infrastructure, and risk management expectations.
• Communication and change leadership : Provide clear executive communication on priorities, project progress, risks, issues, decisions, and value delivered.

What Success Looks Like

• Corporate Functions see IT as a strategic partner that helps shape business outcomes, not only deliver projects.
• Technology demand is transparent, prioritized, and aligned with enterprise strategy and available delivery capacity.
• Roadmaps are clearly understood by stakeholders and translated into executable initiatives with measurable value.
• Risks, costs, dependencies, and executive decisions are surfaced early and managed with discipline.
• Business and IT teams collaborate effectively across functions, geographies, and external partners.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for a senior leader with :

• Strong experience in IT leadership, business relationship management, digital transformation, enterprise applications, or functional technology strategy.
• Deep understanding of corporate functions such as Finance, Controlling, S&OP, back-office operations, Human Resources, Legal, Ethics & Compliance, or related areas.
• Experience working in complex, global, matrixed environments, preferably within pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consumer health, life sciences, or emerging markets.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise platforms and technology trends, including ERP, SAP ECC/S/4HANA, analytics, planning and forecasting, consolidation, expense management, and process automation.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, build consensus, simplify complex topics, and communicate technology value in business language.
• Strong financial, portfolio, governance, risk, and vendor management capabilities.
• Excellent English communication, presentation, negotiation, and leadership skills.

Why This Role

This is a high-impact opportunity for a technology leader who wants to shape the business agenda, influence strategic decisions, and help modernize the technology landscape supporting critical corporate functions. The role offers broad exposure to executive stakeholders, enterprise platforms, global initiatives, and meaningful transformation across a dynamic pharmaceutical business. The successful candidate will join a collaborative IT leadership environment where strategic thinking, business partnership, operational discipline, and the ability to create value through technology are essential.

If you are an experienced IT leader who thrives at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution, this role offers the opportunity to partner with senior leaders, shape transformation priorities, and deliver solutions that create measurable enterprise value.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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