Digital Solutions Business Partner - LHD

Help shape the digital future of one of Leonardo’s most strategically important businesses. 

As the Digital Solutions Business Partner for Leonardo Helicopters UK, you will support some of our major programmes such as New Medium Helicopter (NMH), Proteus (the UK's first full-sized, genuinely autonomous uncrewed helicopter) and Rotary Wing Enterprise (RWE), connecting business strategy, operational priorities and programme needs with the digital, data and technology capabilities required to deliver them.

You will build trusted relationships across the Division, identify and shape emerging demand, and ensure investment proposals clearly articulate the business outcome, value, risk, dependencies and sponsorship required. 

The role offers a balance of Hybrid working, and although the main site will be Yeovil, there may be occasions where travel to other Leonardo offices is required. 

As the Digital Solutions Business Partner, you will: 

• Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders. 

• Develop a detailed understanding of business strategy, priorities, operational challenges and emerging requirements. 

• Identify opportunities where digital, technology and data capabilities can improve business performance or address business challenges. 

• Capture, challenge and shape new business demand before it enters the formal demand and delivery process. 

• Work with Enterprise Architecture and specialist Digital Solutions teams to assess the impact, feasibility and potential approach for new demand. 

• Ensure demand has a clearly articulated business problem, expected outcomes, benefits, value and appropriate business sponsorship. 

• Support the prioritisation of demand against business strategy, value, risk, dependencies and available capacity/funding. 

• Lead Digital Solutions engagement with the business through the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle, identifying, shaping and consolidating future digital investment requirements and ensuring they are appropriately evidenced, prioritised and aligned to business strategy. 

• Maintain visibility of the demand pipeline and provide stakeholders with clear, timely updates on progress, decisions, dependencies and blockers. 

• Connect business stakeholders with the appropriate Digital Solutions teams and capabilities at the right stage of the lifecycle. 

• Represent business priorities and perspectives within Digital Solutions governance and decision-making forums. 

• Communicate Digital Solutions strategy, capabilities, constraints and priorities back into the business. 

• Proactively identify and escalate risks, issues or blockers affecting business outcomes and facilitate their resolution. 

• Manage stakeholder expectations where priorities, funding, capacity or technical constraints require trade-offs. 

• Maintain an effective stakeholder engagement plan and monitor the quality of the Digital Solutions relationship across the business area. 

• Support annual and longer-term business planning by identifying future digital demand, investment requirements and dependencies. 

• Track the outcomes and business value associated with Digital Solutions initiatives, using these insights to inform future priorities. 

• Promote reuse of existing capabilities and solutions before progressing demand for new technology or investment. 

• Share business insight, emerging trends and lessons learned across the wider Digital Solutions organisation to support continuous improvement. 

• Experience in a Business Partnering, Business Analysis, Demand Management, Service Management or similar technology-facing role is an advantage, although not essential. 

• Practical understanding of Digital and IT services, with experience working across areas such as Applications, Infrastructure, Service Operations and Technology Delivery. 

• Proven experience of working across multiple technology teams and business stakeholders to coordinate activity and resolve issues. 

• Ability to understand business challenges and determine the appropriate means to support and resolve. 

• Experience of prioritising competing requirements based on business need, value, urgency, risk and available capacity. 

• Experience of identifying and driving the resolution of cross-functional issues, dependencies and blockers. 

• Experience of supporting business planning and investment cycles, including the identification and consolidation of future Digital and IT requirements is advantageous. 

• Experience of presenting at various stakeholder levels and adapting your communication style to suit. 

• Experience of working within a large, complex or regulated organisation would be advantageous. 

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.  

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting