Manager, Business Architecture

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About the Role
In this opportunity as a Manager, Business Architecture you will:

• Work closely with other members of the Business Architecture team and other stakeholders across the entire organization (e.g. commercial excellence, customer-to-cash, finance, enterprise architecture, sales, etc.) to develop high-level business requirements that help standardize our global operations.

• Learn and shape how various parts of the organization operate at Thomson Reuters and concurrently improve the customer and user experience.

• Develop high-level business designs, including the delivery of business requirements, service blueprints, business processes, standardized definitions, etc.

• Work with other business architects and cross-functional groups to deliver business designs

• Run SME interviews and facilitate workshops with key stakeholders to define and validate designs and business requirements

• Use critical thinking, industry best practices, and assessments to manage ambiguity and to challenge the current state and drive continuous improvements

• Synthesize different and sometimes opposing views and facilitate conversations to drive standardization and simplification

• Analyze data to run impact assessment of proposed changes

• Plan and manage projects independently and ensure the project activities are in alignment with broader programs, portfolios

• Continuously manage key stakeholder groups and provide recurring updates to our main sponsors and leadership

• Report key updates to the Business Architecture leadership team

• Acts as a champion for high-quality and consistent design activities across TR

• Establish, validate, and measure key metrics to track impacts to achieve intended business results

• Continuously improve our business architecture and business design methodologies and frameworks

Location: Toronto, Canada

About You
You're fit for the role of Manager, Business Architecture if your background includes:

• Undergraduate degree in relevant discipline required; masters of higher degree preferred

• 6+ years of relevant experience, including management consulting, business analysis, business architecture, process mapping

• Experience leading complex projects involving multiple internal stakeholders across functional areas

• Structured and critical thinking to deal with ambiguity and always challenge the status quo

• Comfortable in taking initiative and driving improvements independently

• Strong analytical skills

• Confident in facilitating workshops with diverse groups of stakeholders

• Proven track record of collaborating across teams and organizations

• Strong communication skills and ability to create executive-level presentations

• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams

• Strong interest in business architecture and business design

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

• Collaborative and team-focused, with a willingness to take initiative

• Energetic, with drive, enthusiasm, and natural skills in relationship development

• Experience working in a large software or business information company is a plus

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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