Technology Business Partner

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

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Primary Purpose of this Position:

The IT Business Partner (ITBP) is a strategic liaison between IT and Business Functions, Commercial. This role ensures technology investments are tightly aligned to business strategy and outcomes. The ITBP translates business priorities into IT roadmaps, shapes demand, and drives value realization from digital products, data, and platforms. Success requires strong business acumen, stakeholder influence, and the ability to connect strategy to execution across product, data, and process domains.

Essential Responsible Areas:

• Serve as the primary technology point-of-contact for Commercial leaders; understand their strategy, P&L drivers, KPIs, and pain points.
• Co-create a 3-year digital & data roadmap aligned to functional OKRs; maintain a 12–18 month rolling plan.
• Shape demand: assess business cases, define problem statements, and prioritize the portfolio using value, risk, and capacity constraints.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Product Owners to ensure solution fit, scalability, and reusability.
• Establish and track benefits (e.g., revenue uplift, cost avoidance, productivity, Customer / Employee impact), ensuring initiatives have clear measures of success before funding.
• Chair or contribute to quarterly portfolio reviews; manage trade-offs, dependencies, and change impacts.Drive product lifecycle decisions (start, scale, pivot, sunset) using data and leading indicators.
• Translate business outcomes into epics and high-level requirements; ensure user and process readiness (change management, training, comms).
• Collaborate with product teams, data teams, cybersecurity, and PMO to remove blockers and accelerate time-to-value.
• Partner closely with Business leads and Global Process Owners (GPOs) to identify viable solutions and roadmap
• Establish clear alignment and hand offs to GPOs to ensure changes or updates to the tech landscape are executed effectively from a process perspective and enable end-to-end delivery
• Align delivery cadence to business rhythms (e.g., close cycles, seasonal peaks, audit windows).
• Manage IT budget, vendor relationships and service level agreements (SLA)’s
• Build trusted advisor relationships with VPs/Directors across the commercial function; manage expectations with transparency and evidence.
• Build and lead a high-performing technology team, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate joint workshops (journey mapping, process redesign, design thinking) to shape solutions and adoption.
• Communicate progress through concise executive updates and dashboards; escalate risks with options and recommendations.
• Identify opportunities for analytics, automation, and AI to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Ensure data governance, access, and literacy plans are in place; promote standard processes and platforms over bespoke solutions.
• Partner with Risk/Compliance/Security to embed controls by design.

What We are Looking For: 

• 8 - 10+ years in IT/business-facing roles (e.g., Product/Program Management, Consulting, Business Analysis, or ITBP).
• Demonstrated business acumen: understands P&L, commercial levers, operations, and how tech drives value.
• Strong portfolio management, prioritization, and financial fluency (TCO, ROI, NPV/IRR at a practical level).
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience with product-centric delivery, Agile/Lean, and change management.
• Bachelor’s in Business, Information Systems, or related; MBA or Master’s preferred.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms Own the Commercial technology portfolio 
•  7+ years leading Commercial/Customer‑facing portfolios
• Proven delivery in global manufacturing or industrial B2B contexts.
• Demonstrated success with ERP‑first strategies and single integration platform.

Compensation & Benefits:

• This role will be based in our Westminster, CO headquarters and will require regular in-person engagement by working on-site for four (4) or more days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.  
• Hiring Salary Range: $ 147,200 - 215,240 (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role. Under Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details—such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates—from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates). 

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic. 

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
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