Platform Value Leader: Drive Adoption & ROI

Allied Solutions LLC; Carmel (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

401k with company match

3 weeks PTO

Job summary

Allied Solutions LLC is seeking a Business Platform Owner (BPO) to optimize internal applications and align the platform with enterprise goals. You will lead vendor relationships, manage backlogs with business stakeholders, and report metrics to drive visibility for IT leadership.

The role partners with business units to translate needs into functional specs, develop roadmaps for use cases, and ensure data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Management, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3-4 years of work-related experience.
• 1-2 years of leadership experience.
• Proven experience in working with cross-functional technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to determine and strategize solutions for complex business problems using our business technology stack to effectively drive business process improvements.
• Gather, evaluate, and document customer business needs and requirements and translate these into functional specifications that balance optimization across the technology portfolio with the needs of the business.
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams.
• Identify and develop a road map for new use cases, business rules, and efficiencies.
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize requests and ideas from the business area and users to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Consider the holistic needs, collaborate with teams using expertise and best practices to understand the possibilities and functions of the platform to meet the business needs.
• Develop an intimate knowledge of the users and technology to leverage in consultation and recommendations.
• Use Data analysis and data analytics by partnering with others on platform usage or platform related data.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure data is accessible, accurate, and relevant for business teams, guiding the necessary data for metrics and enabling informed, data-driven decisions.
• Identify innovative use of the system that drives adoption, ROI, efficiencies, and business outcomes through enablement efforts.
• Use analytics to determine the success of feature releases and take corrective action if needed – Sprint metrics, team health, platform productivity / usage.
• Identify the right metrics to capture, communicate, and measure value.
• Develop and track on key metrics (like Total Cost of Ownership) to understand and track on ROI, the cost, value and impact of the platform portfolio.
• Manage releases of new versions, features, and bug fixes.
• Manage relationships with vendors. Be the main point of contact for vendors. Being strategic in considering renewals (partnering with Strategic Sourcing) and exploring additional products / Functionality.
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities. Keep up to date with new features and functionality.
• Able to configure systems to meet business needs or work cross-functionally to meet those needs.
• Provide opportunities for citizen development within the platform - Responsible for enabling and empowering business teams to be able to create appropriate system configuration or business rule changes.
• Develop an intimate knowledge of the users to leverage in consultation and recommendations.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Management

Job description

Allied Solutions LLC is seeking a Business Platform Owner (BPO) to optimize internal applications and align the platform with enterprise goals. You will lead vendor relationships, manage backlogs with business stakeholders, and report metrics to drive visibility for IT leadership.

The role partners with business units to translate needs into functional specs, develop roadmaps for use cases, and ensure data-driven decisions.