Manager, IT – Business Relationship

Sunbelt Beverage Company, LLC; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 20%

Job summary

Breakthru Beverage Group seeks a Business Relationship Manager (BRM) to serve as the primary IT interface for assigned business functions. You will govern the technology initiative portfolio, develop business cases, manage budgets, and report to executives while aligning with BBG's product-centric IT model.

The role requires strong communication, strategic partnering, and experience in portfolio management and IT financial planning; preferred credentials include BRMP/CBRM/PMP and familiarity

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, business or related field.
• 5+ years in information technology with portfolio management, business case development, or IT financial planning.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; translate tech to business terms for executives.
• Ability to manage complex issues and drive cross-functional partnerships.
• Proficient in MS Office 365; experience with PM tools (ServiceNow, Jira).
• Comfortable driving change in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Establish trusted relationships with business leadership and translate needs into technology initiatives.
• Lead end-to-end business case development and manage budgets at initiative level.
• Maintain centralized intake and prioritized portfolio backlog across product lines.
• Prepare portfolio status updates, briefs, and governance documentation.
• Define KPIs and track benefits post-delivery to realize value.

Skills

Portfolio management

Business case development

IT financial planning

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Office 365

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business or related field

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

Time Type: Full time Remote Type: Job Family Group: Information Technology Job Description Summary: The Business Relationship Manager (BRM) serves as the primary interface between IT and one or more BBG business functions. This role is the main contact point for business leadership and stakeholders and is responsible for governing their initiatives’ portfolio by identifying and formulating technology initiatives, leading business case development, managing initiative-level financials, and providing executive reporting — aligning with BBG's transition to a product-centric IT operating model. The BRM understands current and emerging critical Business Function objectives, and communicates needs to relevant IT development, delivery and support teams. The BRM also deeply understands and communicates BBG’s IT Strategy, application portfolio, catalog of IT services and technical capabilities to the Business Function to ensure BBG fully leverages investments in technology solutions. The BRM coordinates IT demand across the business with other BRMs to support the development of a single integrated project portfolio spanning all BBG functions. The BRM role reaches beyond projects by maintaining focus on overall IT performance and acts as an escalation path for issues that are not being fully resolved in line with the relevant Service Level Agreement (SLA). The role requires equal fluency in technology strategy, financial analysis, and stakeholder communication.

Job Responsibilities:

• Strategic Business Partnering Establish and maintain trusted relationships with assigned business-function leadership teams, key executives, and cross-functional stakeholders. Proactively engage business partners to surface demand, understand strategic priorities, and identify opportunities for technology-enabled value creation. Serve as the voice of the business within IT — translating goals, challenges, and opportunities into actionable technology initiatives aligned with BBG's enterprise roadmap. Communicate BBG's IT strategy, application portfolio, service catalog, and emerging technical capabilities to ensure the business fully leverages technology investments.
• Financial Tracking and Budget Management Lead end-to-end business case creation for technology initiatives, partnering with business sponsors to articulate strategic rationale, scope, and expected outcomes. Continuously validate that funded initiatives still serve the approved business case; recommend scope, sequencing, or continuation changes when assumptions shift. Own initiative-level budgets for the assigned portfolio, tracking actual spend versus plan on a monthly cadence and flagging variances with recommended corrective actions. Collaborate with Finance and IT leadership to transition from project-based funding toward product-line funding models where applicable.
• Portfolio and Project Oversight Manage the centralized intake pipeline for strategic and enhancement requests, ensuring each initiative is properly captured, categorized, and triaged. Maintain a prioritized portfolio backlog across assigned product lines, coordinating with product-line owners and other BRMs to align sequencing with enterprise capacity and strategic value. Monitor initiative health (scope, schedule, budget, risk) across the assigned portfolio; proactively identify challenged initiatives and recommend whether to continue, restructure, pause, or discontinue. Participate in cross-portfolio program increment planning to align delivery timelines, resolve resource contention, and manage cross-initiative dependencies.
• Executive Governance and Reporting Prepare and present portfolio status updates, decision briefs, and escalation summaries for ELT SteerCo and other governance forums. Frame executive decisions clearly: articulate options, tradeoffs, and recommendations when initiatives compete for shared resources or require reprioritization. Maintain governance artifacts — decision logs, escalation trackers, and risk registers — to ensure transparency and continuity across planning cycles.
• Value Realization and Metrics Define outcome-based KPIs for each major initiative; establish baselines prior to delivery and track post-implementation benefits to quantify realized value. Hold stakeholders accountable for value capture — partner with business owners to ensure organizational changes needed for benefit realization are executed.
• Cross-Portfolio Collaboration Coordinate with peer BRMs and product-line owners across business domains to identify enterprise-wide synergies and avoid duplicative investment. Maintain cross-project dependency views; proactively surface collision points, shared-milestone risks, and sequencing conflicts to leadership.
• Contribute to the development of BRM team standards, templates, and best practices that drive consistency across the function. Other duties, as assigned by the jobholder’s supervisor, may also be required.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business or related field.
• 5+ years of increasing responsibility in information technology, with demonstrated experience in portfolio management, business case development, and/or IT financial planning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to translate complex technical subjects into clear business terms and present to executive audiences
• Ability to manage complex business issues, identify root causes, and actively resolve problems leveraging cross-functional partnerships
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word); experience with project/portfolio management tools (e.g., ServiceNow, Jira, or similar)
• Comfortable driving change and embracing innovation in complex, ambiguous environments
• Must be result-oriented with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines

Preferred Qualifications:

• BRMP, CBRM, or PMP certification
• Experience with either SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce/CRM, or Modern Data & AI platforms
• Wholesale distribution or complex supply chain industry background a plus
• Familiarity with investment prioritization frameworks and capacity-based planning

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.

Competencies: Connects business objectives to technology strategy; anticipates how changes in one domain ripple across the portfolio. Builds coalition across competing sponsor priorities; navigates difficult tradeoffs without damaging relationships. Coordinates across BRM peers, product-line owners, and delivery teams to resolve dependencies and maximize enterprise value. Operates effectively when scope, timelines, and priorities shift; makes sound recommendations with incomplete information.

Salary Range: 90,000 - 110,000

Bonus: 20% - -

Breakthru Beverage Group is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.

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We're driven to be the industry leader in every way, including how we treat our associates. Which is why we've built a people-centric, relationship-driven culture designed to maximize career advancement, a sense of belonging, and wellness. Focused on enhancing every aspect and phase of your career, the Breakthru experience includes our commitment to your growth, belonging, and wellness. Breakthru Beverage is a family-owned and operated company with operations across the U.S. and Canada, and more than $8 billion in annual sales driven by a team of 10,000 associates. We deliver world-renowned brands to the doorsteps of North America’s retail, bar and restaurant businesses.