Strategic IT Leader for Corporate Functions

Abbott; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking an IT Business Relationship Director for Corporate Functions to align technology with business strategy. You will lead enterprise IT roadmaps, governance, and stakeholder engagement across global functions, delivering measurable value for a leading healthcare company.

In this senior role, you will partner with executives, shape investment decisions, and drive transformation initiatives that impact finance, HR, and other corporate functions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading IT in enterprise environments.
• Proven track record in digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience in global, matrixed organizations.
• Strong understanding of ERP, analytics, planning and forecasting.
• Ability to translate IT value into business terms.
• Strong financial, governance and vendor management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Executive partnership: Build trusted relationships with senior functional leaders 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.

Skills

Executive partnership

Strategy & roadmaps

Demand & portfolio leadership

Business value & financial stewardship

Delivery alignment

Risk, security & compliance

Communication & stakeholder management

Tools

SAP ECC/S4HANA

Job description

Abbott is seeking an IT Business Relationship Director for Corporate Functions to align technology with business strategy. You will lead enterprise IT roadmaps, governance, and stakeholder engagement across global functions, delivering measurable value for a leading healthcare company.

In this senior role, you will partner with executives, shape investment decisions, and drive transformation initiatives that impact finance, HR, and other corporate functions.