Digital Business Partner - Strategic Marketing and Commercial

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Job Description

Albemarle is hiring for a Digital Business Partner - Strategic Marketing and Commercial. This position is hybrid and located in Charlotte, NC.

Position Overview

The Digital Business Partner (DBP) serves as the strategic interface between business functions and IT, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business value and support enterprise strategy.

This role operates as a trusted advisor to functional leadership, translating business strategy into prioritized technology outcomes, shaping demand, and co-owning value realization across the portfolio. The DBP plays a critical role in advancing digital, data, AI, and automation capabilities across the enterprise.

Technology Business Partners align technology capabilities to business priorities, drive adoption of new digital capabilities, and help ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

What You Will Do

Key Responsibilities

Strategy Alignment

Participate in business strategy, OKR, and annual planning processes (AOP / LRP)

Translate functional strategy into multi-year technology and capability roadmaps

Identify digital, data, AI, and automation opportunities that improve performance and cost position

Serve as strategic advisor to functional leadership on technology trends and opportunities

DBPs typically collaborate with functional leaders to understand strategy and develop aligned technology roadmaps.

Demand Shaping & Prioritization

Shape demand before intake through early problem framing and value qualification

Facilitate prioritization using value, risk, and capacity trade-offs

Translate business needs into technology investment priorities and solution direction

Partner with Architecture, Product, and Delivery to ensure solution fit and scalability

Demand management and translating business needs into technology priorities are core DBP responsibilities.

Value Articulation & Realization

Lead business case development and ROI modeling

Define measurable success metrics prior to funding approval

Track value realization post-deployment and drive corrective actions where needed

Provide portfolio transparency and value reporting to functional leadership

DBPs are expected to quantify value and ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

Executive Partnership

Maintain strong executive relationships within assigned functions

Act as primary liaison between business and IT leadership

Provide insight, best practices, and perspective in leadership decision forums

Partner with Change, HR, and Transformation teams to drive adoption and business outcomes

DBPs serve as the primary bridge between business units and IT and build trusted stakeholder relationships.

Roadmap Creation & Co-Ownership

Co-create and co-own annual and multi-year technology roadmaps with business leaders

Connect roadmap investments to strategy, demand signals, and value realization outcomes

Support portfolio reviews and investment governance forums

Ensure roadmap alignment with enterprise architecture and platform strategies

DBPs commonly co-develop multi-year roadmaps and align them to enterprise strategy and architecture.

Strategic Marketing & Commercial Domain Responsibility

Responsible for enabling and supporting technology capabilities across the commercial value stream, including customer engagement, sales, pricing, contract management, marketing, customer service, demand generation, and market intelligence. This domain focuses on improving customer experience, revenue growth, commercial effectiveness, pricing optimization, and business insight through process excellence, data-driven decision making, automation, and digital innovation.

What You Bring

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Digitization or related field

8+ years experience in IT Business Partner, Digital Transformation, Consulting, or Product roles

Experience working with executive stakeholders

Experience in business case development and portfolio prioritization

Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments (ERP, data, integration, cloud, AI)

Preferred:

Experience in manufacturing, chemicals, or industrial environments

Experience with digital transformation, AI, automation, or data platforms

MBA or advanced technical degree

Experience supporting AOP / LRP planning cycles

Experience in value tracking and benefits realization

Key Success Traits

Strategic and enterprise-oriented mindset

Strong business and financial acumen

Comfortable influencing and challenging senior leaders

Outcome and ROI focused

Forward-looking and ownership mindset

Success Measures (First 12–18 Months)

Technology roadmap aligned to business strategy and funding cycles

Increased % of investments with quantified ROI and success metrics

Improved value realization tracking post-deployment

Increased proactive demand shaping vs reactive intake

Strong executive satisfaction and partnership scores

Why This Role Matters

This role is critical to accelerating Albemarle’s transformation by ensuring technology investments directly enable business strategy, operational performance, and long-term competitive advantage.

Benefits of Joining Albemarle

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits package

A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.

We are partners to one another in pioneering new ways to be better for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. When you join Albemarle, you become our most essential element and you can anticipate competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and resources that foster your well-being and fuel your personal growth. Help us shape the future, build with purpose and grow together.