Director, Technology Business Management

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the SVP, Technology Business Management to translate enterprise and technology priorities into actionable roadmaps, operating plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead core TBM routines, including contract scheduling, investment reviews, financial planning cadence, performance reviews, and executive reporting preparation.
• Create clear decision materials for technology leadership, governance councils, and executive stakeholders, connecting cost, risk, delivery, and business value.
• Mature the TBM function by establishing common definitions, repeatable processes, and management practices that improve transparency and accountability.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders on how technology investments can create measurable business value.
• Lead the annual IT budget process in partnership with IT leadership and Finance, including budget assumptions, spend categories, forecasts, and leadership review materials.
• Monitor budgets for technology projects, keep-the-lights-on activities, headcount, assets, software licensing, and vendor spend; provide timely line-of-sight into variances and required actions.
• Build cost transparency practices that help leaders understand run, grow, and transform spend; service or capability costs; and opportunities to reduce waste or technical debt.
• Develop and operate processes for understanding, measuring, tracking, and reporting the business value of technology initiatives based on budget impact, strategic alignment, risk, feasibility, and expected value.
• Maintain an integrated view of technology demand and portfolio commitments, helping leaders prioritize work based on capacity, funding, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide insight to governance groups on the value, budgetary impact, and tradeoffs of initiatives under consideration.
• Support governance frameworks for solution intake, investment prioritization, portfolio decisions, risk management, and value tracking.
• Promote clear communication between business and technology stakeholders, including the ability to explain technical and financial drivers to non-technical audiences.
• Ensure technology decisions are cohesive, data-driven, compliant with governance expectations, and aligned with enterprise priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science, Business Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in technology leadership, financial management, technology business management, IT portfolio management, PMO, business operations, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience managing or governing budgets, forecasts, spend analysis, or financial planning processes.
• Demonstrated experience with demand management, value management, portfolio governance, and performance reporting in a technology organization.
• Strong business, commercial, and financial acumen, with the ability to understand both business priorities and technical drivers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready storytelling, dashboarding, and decision-support materials.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, work across functions, manage ambiguity, and drive timely, effective execution.

Preferred

• MBA, advanced degree, or equivalent experience in technology management, finance, strategy, or business operations.
• Experience leading or maturing a Technology Business Management, IT Financial Management, portfolio governance, or similar function in a complex enterprise.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture, cloud, data, integration, cybersecurity, application modernization, and technical debt management concepts.
• Experience supporting senior executive forums, operating committees, board-level materials, or enterprise technology governance processes.