Director, TBM Strategy – Planning

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $147.8k - $236k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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The Standard

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1906

🏥 Healthcare

⚖️ Legal

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Legal • Consulting

The Standard is a comprehensive provider of insurance, retirement, and investment products and services, targeting individuals, families, businesses, and organizations. Based in Portland, Oregon, and part of the StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. , The Standard offers products such as life and disability insurance, annuities, vision and dental coverage, and retirement plans. Their solutions aim to facilitate financial wellness and enable effective benefits administration, catering to clients of all sizes. The company is renowned for its people-first commitment and innovative partnerships, contributing to a seamless customer experience.

📋 Description

• Serve as a strategic business partner supporting IT strategy formulation, vendor governance, and continuous cost optimization • Lead data-driven analysis and recommendations for long-term operating expense and delivery model optimization • Manage professional staff supporting strategy enablement, vendor governance, and TBM services • Coach staff, provide continuous feedback, support development, and conduct succession planning • Build relationships with IT and business leaders to support technology strategy decision-making • Lead project definition, idea generation, and business case development for cost-optimization roadmaps • Perform quantitative and qualitative analysis and deliver actionable insights and recommendations • Analyze technology, market, and industry trends affecting the business • Plan and execute workstreams for management-defined and enterprise projects • Oversee presentations and strategic communications regarding critical IT issues • Lead strategic vendor analysis and selection, peer benchmarking, cloud migration strategy, and infrastructure automation analysis • Lead service-costing strategy and implementation of Technology Business Management capabilities • Partner with the TBM Analytics team to connect management reporting with business and technology strategies • Use TBM software capabilities to improve understanding of IT performance, cost, quality, and value • Develop and maintain service-costing processes for annual planning and technology-service demand management • Improve consumption forecasting and operational data quality to align total-cost-of-ownership analysis with cost-transparency objectives • Communicate IT-service consumption, volumes, and allocation drivers to management through presentations

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Management Information Systems, Business Analytics, or Operations Research • 8–10 years of progressive Finance, Strategy, or Management Consulting experience, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience • Experience leading high-performance teams accountable for executing strategic initiatives • Prior experience in Technology Business Management (TBM) or CIO advisory work • Experience in a rapidly changing environment and proposing, justifying, initiating, and implementing change • Highly developed problem-solving and analytical abilities • Ability to frame problems, analyze solutions, and build detailed financial models • Knowledge of strategic IT planning and financial management practices, including budgeting, cost allocations, capital and operating expense handling, and product roadmaps or capability-driven funding models • Understanding of IT domains and services • Advanced proficiency in SQL, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and Alteryx • Strong project management and organizational skills • Strong oral, written, and presentation communication skills • Strong ability to influence • Professional certification preferred: CMA, CSCA, FP&A, Balanced Scorecard certification, CTBME, ITIL, or IT4IT • Familiarity with Apptio preferred • Candidates must be bondable • Criminal background investigation and employment, education, and licensing verification required as a condition of employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with matching company contributions • Annual incentive bonus plan • Generous paid time off • 11 holidays annually • 2 wellness days annually • 8 volunteer hours annually • PTO increases with tenure • Opportunities for career growth and advancement • Paid parental leave • Adoption and surrogacy assistance • Employee giving program that double matches donations to eligible nonprofits and schools