• Job Description

  Req#: 76256BR

  Position Summary:

  The BRM liaison for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) and APAC (Asia-Pacific) will collaborate with Global Technology (GT) and EMEA/APAC regional business unit leaders and teams to research, draft, and refine technology enabled strategy for the business. The BRM Liaison will also coordinate communications and expectations with business teams regarding planning, delivery, and escalations for the technology projects impacting their strategy, and identify and build relationships with business team members needed to forge a strong working relationship between them and GT. The scope of the role’s work will be across the technology development lifecycle including networking, ideation and research on new potential capabilities, understanding the critical needs of the business and history of technology efforts impacting those areas, convening workstream leaders to understand pipeline asks, planning and road-mapping major priorities, setting expectations on what and how technology can be delivered, facilitating decisioning on priorities with other Global Technology (GT) functions (e.g., PMO, Transformation Office), and serving as a key point of contact for inflight projects and status on operational issues. The BRM Liaison lead will work with all other GT functions (solution delivery, deployment, infrastructure, security, application development, enterprise architecture, etc.) for thought partnership and to ensure a consistent, clean, and holistic perspective on technology for these business counterparts.

  Key Responsibilities:

  Networking

  • Establish collaborative relationships with key leads in the business

  • Map influencers and key stakeholders at N-2, N-3, and N-4 levels

  • Take feedback on GT performance and coordinate mitigation

  Ideation

  • Listen and learn about business objectives and strategies

  • Conduct early ideation discussions and identify areas for formal ideation sessions

  • Understand the recent history of technology enablement across ADM

  • Collect (e.g., from Enterprise Architecture, Digital & Innovation, personal research) and present ideas for technology capabilities that could augment strategic plans

  • Facilitate sessions to define the potential shape and composition of technology transformations for consideration in long term planning

  Planning

  • Convene technology councils to compile and bundle technology asks

  • Structure and simplify technology risk vs. reward conversations

  • Lead and execute ‘Pre-Discovery’ efforts to categorize technology projects to support first stage prioritization (ROM sizing, nature of delivery, impacting GT areas, Discovery staffing)

  • Collaborate to roadmap major technology efforts based on sequencing and dependencies

  • Support prioritization within PMO and Transformation Office defined processes

  • Broker conversations with other GT experts to answer important early shaping and prioritization questions and to clarify path forward on decisioning

  Communications

  • Share context on GT strategies, relevant current efforts, and expectations on how projects will be prioritized, planned, and delivered

  • Educate business managers on the realities of technology project delivery (e.g., long-tail costs, architectural constraints, global vs. local considerations)

  • Share global perspective on technology at ADM (e.g., other successes and lessons learned)

• About the company

  The Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, commonly known as ADM, is an American multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation founded in 1902 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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