TAQA Distribution

Lead, Business Engagement Partner - Enterprise

Abu Dhabi, UAEPosted 5 days ago

Salary
AED 11k–18k a month· est.
Job type
Full time
Level
Lead
Field
Engineering & Technology
Work mode
On site

About the role

About the Role We are seeking a Lead, Business Engagement Partner - Enterprise to join our IT & Digital team. In this role, you will be to act as the hands-on Business Engagement Partner for TAQA Distribution’s Enterprise Solutions domain by actively capturing, analyzing, shaping and converting enterprise business needs into qualified IT demand, business case inputs, platform requirements, service catalogue inputs, adoption plans and measurable value outcomes. The Lead, Business Engagement Partner – Enterprise develops demand packs, documents business requirements, maps platform and service dependencies, validates delivery route and service-consumption implications, coordinates solutioning with Platforms, IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture, EPMO, Data Governance and Vendor & Financial Management teams, and supports the business in tracking delivery, adoption and value outcomes across Oracle Fusion Finance/HCM/SCM, ServiceNow, HSE/GRC, Procurement, enterprise workflow and reporting capabilities. The role is responsible for driving and lead the Annual and Quartly demand planning sessions to effectively balance the workload over the year. While the core focus is the assigned domain, if there's capacity available, the role will support projects across domains like Utilities, Enterprise Functions, TAQA Transmission, TAQA HQ and other TAQA Operating Companies, to enable business priorities and value-realization objectives. Key Responsibilities Enterprise Business Partnership and Engagement • Build and maintain structured engagement with Finance, Human Capital Management, Supply Chain, Procurement, HSE, Risk, GRC, Compliance and enterprise operations stakeholders. • Run working sessions, interviews and workshops to capture enterprise business pain points, clarify process requirements, document improvement opportunities and convert business needs into actionable IT demand. • Create business-facing summaries, demand briefs, process notes and stakeholder decision materials that make enterprise technology needs clear, prioritized and ready for IT review. • Represent enterprise business requirements in IT governance forums and ensure decisions, dependencies and unresolved issues are captured, actioned and escalated with clear options. Demand Management, Prioritization and Business Case Inputs • Develop, maintain and continuously refine the Enterprise Solutions demand portfolio, ensuring every demand item is documented with a business owner, problem statement, expected outcome, priority, process impact, platform dependency, data/integration need, MSP route, UAT owner, adoption requirement and value hypothesis. • Capture, analyze, qualify and prioritize enterprise demand related to Oracle Fusion Finance/HCM/SCM, ServiceNow, HSE/GRC, Procurement, enterprise workflow, reporting and integration dependencies. • Develop demand packs, requirement summaries, prioritization notes, business case inputs and decision materials that enable IT & Digital Strategy, Platforms, Enterprise Architecture, EPMO and MSP teams to progress demand without ambiguity. • Prepare business case inputs including benefits logic, expected outcomes, cost/benefit assumptions, adoption requirements, KPI impact and business-readiness needs. • Analyze demand pipelines to identify duplicate requests, dependency conflicts, overlapping initiatives, delivery bottlenecks and opportunities for consolidation or service catalogue fulfilment. Enterprise Platforms and Service Catalogue Alignment • Assess business requirements against the approved IT Service Catalogue and determine whether needs should be fulfilled through existing services, platform enhancements, projects, MSP-delivered services, internal delivery or vendor-supported solutions. • Develop solution-route recommendations by evaluating platform fit, service catalogue coverage, MSP service boundaries, business urgency, value potential, risk, cost and delivery capacity. • Analyze service consumption trends, demand patterns and stakeholder requirements to identify, document and implement recommendations for service catalogue optimization, rationalization and expansion with Service Management and Platform teams. • Translate enterprise process improvement opportunities into platform enhancement requests, service catalogue inputs, adoption plans and measurable business outcomes. • Work with Manager, Platforms (Enterprise Solutions), Lead Enterprise Tech, Enterprise Architecture, Data Governance and Vendor & Financial Management to validate solution options, estimate assumptions, integration needs and platform dependencies. MSP Route, Solution Alignment and Delivery Readiness • Validate MSP route and service-consumption implications for enterprise demand, including whether the initiative should follow platform enhancement, MSP service request, project delivery, staff augmentation, OEM/vendor support or internal capability route. • Review MSP and vendor estimates, service boundaries, solution assumptions and business-readiness requirements; challenge gaps before demand enters delivery with support from Enterprise Architecture and Platform Leads. • Prepare governance-ready handoff materials that clearly define scope, requirements, acceptance criteria, data/integration dependencies, reporting needs, business testing route, adoption owner and value measures. • Coordinate with Platform teams, IT Operations, EPMO, Cyber Security, Data Governance and MSP/vendor teams to confirm route, estimation, risk, dependency and delivery-readiness assumptions. • Track delivery-readiness actions, open dependencies, business decisions and governance conditions to closure before handover into delivery. UAT, Adoption and Business Readiness • Define business acceptance criteria, UAT scenarios, validation requirements, business SME commitments and sign-off routes for enterprise initiatives. • Coordinate business UAT preparation and execution by aligning test scenarios, process owners, data needs, defect triage, sign-off evidence and adoption readiness activities. • Develop adoption-readiness inputs covering communication, training, process change, business preparedness, operational transition and post-go-live support requirements. • Support business with adoption , tracking progress, business readiness, user feedback and post-go-live stabilization actions, escalating blockers where business value may be delayed or diluted. • Validate delivered functionality against approved business requirements and document gaps, defects, change requests and follow-up improvement actions. Value Realization, KPI Tracking and Continuous Improvement • Support business in defining business success measures, KPI impacts, value-realization metrics and benefit ownership for enterprise initiatives in collaboration with business owners and Value Realization teams. • Create and maintain dashboards, scorecards and reporting views covering demand status, delivery health, adoption progress, benefit realization, service outcomes and value leakage risks. • Support business to maintain end-to-end traceability between approved enterprise demand, business case assumptions, investment decisions, delivered functionality, adoption outcomes and realized business value. • Support business to validate business-case assumptions against actual business outcomes and identify variances requiring correcti

Responsibilities

Lead, Business Engagement Partner – Enterprise develops demand packs, documents business requirements, maps platform and service dependencies, validates delivery route and service-consumption implications, coordinates solutioning with Platforms, IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture, EPMO, Data Governance and Vendor & Financial Management teams, and supports the business in tracking delivery, adoption and value outcomes across Oracle Fusion Finance/HCM/SCM, ServiceNow, HSE/GRC, Procurement, enterprise workflow and reporting capabilities. Drive and lead Annual and Quarterly demand planning sessions to balance workload over the year. Core focus is the assigned domain, with potential support to projects across domains as capacity allows. Key responsibilities include Enterprise Business Partnership and Engagement, Demand Management, Prioritization and Business Case Inputs, Enterprise Platforms and Service Catalogue Alignment, MSP Route, Solution Alignment and Delivery Readiness, UAT, Adoption and Business Readiness, and Value Realization, KPI Tracking and Continuous Improvement. Activities span building stakeholder engagement, capturing pain points, creating demand briefs, developing business cases, validating solution options, coordinating with MSP/vendor teams, ensuring governance readiness, defining adoption plans, and tracking value realization.

Skills

  • Oracle Fusion Finance
  • Oracle Fusion HCM
  • Oracle Fusion SCM
  • ServiceNow
  • HSE/GRC
  • Procurement
  • enterprise workflow
  • business case development
  • demand management
  • stakeholder engagement
  • UAT planning
  • adoption planning
  • business readiness
  • value realization
  • data governance

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