IT Business Relationship Director – Corporate Functions (m/f/d)

At Abbott, we're committed to helping people live their best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 114,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 160 countries we serve. Abbott is looking to recruit an IT Business Relationship Director – Corporate Functions (m/f/d) Role Summary The IT Business Relationship Director for Corporate Functions is a senior leadership role that connects business strategy with technology execution across EPD corporate functions. The role partners with senior business leaders shaping functional roadmaps, prioritize demand, guide technology investments, and ensure IT solutions deliver measurable business value. This position is ideal for a strategic, business-oriented technology leader who can operate confidently with executive stakeholders, translate complex needs into practical roadmaps, and drive alignment across business, IT, security, compliance, finance, vendors, and delivery teams. Mission and Impact The mission of the role is to ensure Corporate Functions have the technology strategy, governance, capabilities, and execution discipline needed to advance business priorities. The Director will build trusted relationships with functional leaders, anticipate emerging needs, and convert business ambitions into clear technology roadmaps and investment choices. Define and maintain three-to-five-year IT roadmaps aligned with functional and geographic strategies. Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and improve business processes through scalable technology. Lead demand shaping, prioritization, and portfolio alignment across regional and global governance forums. Drive business cases, value realization, risk visibility, cost transparency, and executive communication. Represent the voice of the business while ensuring alignment with enterprise IT, security, compliance, and architecture standards.

Executive partnership: Build trusted relationships with senior functional leaders, understand business priorities, and ensure technology enables measurable outcomes. Strategy and roadmap ownership: Translate functional strategies into practical IT roadmaps, investment plans, and sequencing decisions. Demand and portfolio leadership: Consolidate, assess, prioritize, and govern business technology demand through strong portfolio discipline. Business value and financial stewardship: Shape business cases, track benefits, manage total cost of ownership, and ensure budget transparency. Delivery alignment: Partner with IT delivery, PMO, operations, vendors, and corporate technology teams to ensure initiatives are delivered with quality, speed, and clear accountability. Risk, security, and compliance: Ensure solutions and services comply with cybersecurity, compliance, data, infrastructure, and risk management expectations. Communication and change leadership: Provide clear executive communication on priorities, project progress, risks, issues, decisions, and value delivered. What Success Looks Like Corporate Functions see IT as a strategic partner that helps shape business outcomes, not only deliver projects. Technology demand is transparent, prioritized, and aligned with enterprise strategy and available delivery capacity. Roadmaps are clearly understood by stakeholders and translated into executable initiatives with measurable value. Risks, costs, dependencies, and executive decisions are surfaced early and managed with discipline. Business and IT teams collaborate effectively across functions, geographies, and external partners. Candidate Profile We are looking for a senior leader with: Strong experience in IT leadership, business relationship management, digital transformation,