Digital Business Partner – Design Phase

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is seeking a Digital Business Partner to bridge the Digital team and assigned business domains.

You will align business strategy with digital priorities, shape demand and roadmaps, and ensure investments deliver measurable value. In this role you will build strategic relationships with senior leaders, develop digital strategies, surface opportunities, and partner with Product Management to align roadmaps with business goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in business/IT strategy or portfolio/product leadership roles with senior stakeholders
• Proven track record building trusted relationships with senior business leaders
• Executive-level written and verbal communication skills for decision facilitation
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, balance priorities, and drive enterprise outcomes
• Strong understanding of demand management, portfolio prioritization, and value realization
• Knowledge of roadmaps, backlogs, product health, and digital disciplines
• Experience in digital business partnering, management consulting, product management, or enterprise portfolio management

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains trusted, strategic relationships with senior business leaders and stakeholders
• Develops and maintains a documented digital strategy for the assigned domain
• Proactively surfaces strategic opportunities and risks
• Shapes and prioritizes incoming business demand before Product Management handoff
• Partners with Product Management to align roadmaps to business strategy
• Influences product backlog prioritization with Product Management
• Reports on value realization of digital initiatives to leadership
• Delivers complete business cases with clear problem statements and success criteria
• Consolidates and redirects requests to existing products when possible
• Validates business alignment during technology evaluations

Skills

Strategic partnering

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Demand management

Portfolio prioritization

Product management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Digital Business Partner serves as the strategic connection between the Digital team and assigned business domains by aligning business strategy with digital priorities, shaping demand and roadmaps, and ensuring investments deliver measurable value.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Builds and maintains trusted, strategic relationships with senior business leaders, leadership committees and functional stakeholders within assigned domains.
• Develops and maintains a documented digital strategy for the assigned domain.
• Proactively surfaces strategic opportunities and risks, staying ahead of business needs.
• Shapes, filters, and prioritizes incoming business demand before handing off to Product Management.
• Partners with Product Management to align roadmaps to business strategy.
• Influences product backlog prioritization with Product Management.
• Reports on value realization of digital initiatives back to business leadership.
• Delivers complete business cases with clear problem statements, desired outcomes, success criteria, and stakeholder alignment.
• Consolidates and redirects requests to existing products when possible.
• Validates business alignment during technology evaluations.

SUCCESS CRITERIA

• Business leaders in the domain have an active, intentional relationship with their Digital Business Partner, which is reflected in stakeholder satisfaction.
• Business leaders in the domain are well informed of progress of Digital initiatives.
• Each assigned domain has a current, documented digital strategy co-developed with business leadership.
• Strategic opportunities and risks are surfaced proactively, not reactively.
• Active portfolio items are consistently mapped to documented business priorities and strategic anchors.
• Prioritized investments have measurable business outcomes defined before the work begins.
• Incoming requests are consolidated, redirected, or filtered before reaching Product Management.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (industry experience in construction/engineering is a plus, not required).
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in business / IT strategy, digital transformation, or portfolio / product leadership roles, including direct work with senior business stake holders.
• Demonstrated track record building trusted relationship with senior business leaders and operating as a strategic partner for a function or domain.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication skills clear, concise, and confident with the ability to facilitate decisions with senior business leaders.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and drive enterprise first outcomes.
• Strong understanding of demand management, portfolio prioritization, business case development, and value realization.
• Solid understanding of product management disciplines (roadmaps, backlogs, product health).
• Prior experience in digital business partnering, management consulting, product management, or enterprise portfolio management.

McCarthy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.