IT Director - HR & Legal · Valvoline Global Operations

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:13:37 GMT
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Valvoline Global Operations · onsite

Why Valvoline Global Operations? At Valvoline Global Operations, we're proud to be The Original Motor Oil, but we've never rested on being first. Founded in 1866, we introduced the world's first branded motor oil, staking our claim as a pioneer in the automotive and industrial solutions industry. Today, as an affiliate of Aramco, one of the world's largest integrated energy and chemicals companies, we are driven by innovation and committed to creating sustainable solutions for a better future. With a global presence, we develop future-ready products and provide best-in-class services for our partners around the world. For us, originality isn't just about where we began; it's about where we're headed and how we'll lead the way. We are originality in motion. Our corporate values—Care, Integrity, Passion, Unity, and Excellence—are at the heart of everything we do. These values define how we operate, how we treat one another, and how we engage with our partners, customers, and the communities we serve. At Valvoline Global, we are united in our commitment to: • Treating everyone with care. • Acting with unwavering integrity. • Striving for excellence in all endeavors. • Delivering on our commitments with passion. • Collaborating as one unified team. ### Job Purpose The IT Director of HR Business Applications – (ITBP: IT Business Partner) is the accountable leader for a dedicated delivery team serving the Human Resources function. Acting as the sole conduit between HR leadership and the IT organization, this role ensures the team consistently delivers outcomes with tangible business value. This ITBP leader defines and oversees the “business blueprint,” the integrated model of processes, capabilities, systems, and data that supports HR’s operations. By collaborating with the leadership team and guiding delivery execution, the Director ensures that every initiative in the HR portfolio is prioritized, architected, and delivered in direct support of the functional strategy and VGO enterprise standards. The role combines the disciplines of product ownership, business architecture, process design, and program delivery — all within a single function-focused delivery construct. Success is measured by the business value realized, the adoption achieved, and the alignment maintained between functional priorities and technology delivery. ### How You Make an Impact 1\. Strategic Partnership & Value Realization • Act as the senior IT partner to the CHRO and HR leadership team, aligning technology delivery to HR’s strategic priorities and workforce objectives. • Translate HR strategy into a clear, sequenced roadmap of initiatives that maximizes business impact within capacity constraints. • Serve as the single point of accountability for delivery of agreed HR technology outcomes, ensuring alignment of scope, funding, resources, and timelines. • Drive transparent stakeholder engagement, ensuring adoption, measurable value realization, and sustained business impact. 2\. HR Technology Portfolio & Delivery Execution • Lead a dedicated HR delivery team responsible for converting HR priorities into executable business blueprints, solutions, and measurable outcomes. • Govern prioritization and capacity planning across HR initiatives, balancing transformation, compliance, and operational demand. • Anticipate and proactively mitigate delivery risks to protect timelines, adoption, and business outcomes. • Champion disciplined execution and continuous improvement across HR systems and processes. 3\. HR Capability & Blueprint Governance • Design, maintain, and evolve the HR business capability model and value streams to ensure alignment between workforce strategy, processes, data, and enabling technology. • Govern HR process and solution blueprints to ensure standardization, scalability, compliance, and alignment with enterprise integration and architecture standards. • Define and oversee HR data, information flows, and performance measures to enable transparency, regulatory compliance, and workforce analytics. • Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure HR solutions align with enterprise capability frameworks and cross-functional operating models. 4\. Solution Optimization & Market Insight • Proactively assess and optimize existing HR platforms (e.g., HCM, payroll, talent systems) to reduce friction, simplify workflows, and increase value realization. • Provide informed recommendations on emerging HR technologies and market solutions that support workforce strategy and operational excellence. ### Functional Financial Accountability and Budget Management The Director of Business Strategic Execution is fully accountable for the financial performance of the function’s IT delivery portfolio, as agreed through the annual Objectives, Goals, Strategies, and Measures (OGSM) process. This includes management of both fixed and variable costs associated with technology enablement and operations within the function. • Fixed Costs: Owns and governs all essential, non-negotiable expenditures required to sustain core systems, capabilities, and services that guarantee the seamless and successful operation of the function. • Variable Costs: Strategically plans, allocates, and manages discretionary spending aligned to the OGSM cycle, ensuring that optional investments directly support prioritized outcomes and deliver measurable business value. • Budget Adherence: Maintains delivery within the approved budget envelope; proactively monitors spend, forecasts cost impacts, and flags risks or variances early to enable corrective action. • Transparency and Reporting: Provides clear financial transparency to the function’s leadership team and the VLT, including visibility into delivery costs, value realization, and any impacts to the function’s ongoing run rate or fixed-cost base. • Financial Partnership: Works closely with Finance, PMO, and Architecture to balance investment in innovation and transformation with long-term sustainability of the technology cost structure. ### What You Bring to the Role • 12–15+ years of progressive experience leading business-facing delivery functions across enterprise platforms and processes. • Strong financial acumen; accountable for defining, managing, and reporting the function’s IT budget across fixed and variable costs, maintaining alignment with OGSM agreements and value delivery targets. • Deep experience in SuccessFactors: EC (Employee Central), ECP (Employee Central Payroll), ONB (Onboarding and Recruiting), Performance and Goals, SAP ERP, ADP, and UKG. • Proven success owning delivery accountability for a single business function or portfolio of function-specific technology initiatives. • Deep expertise in business process design, functional operating models, and enterprise application ecosystems (ERP, CRM, HRIS, or equivalent). • Demonstrated ability to align with senior functional leaders (C-suite level direct reports) and translate business priorities into executable delivery portfolios. • Exceptional facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills across both business and technical teams. • Experience leading cross-functional matrixed teams, including architects, business analysts, and technical delivery leads, through the whole delivery lifecycle. • Bachelor’s degree in business information systems, or related discipline required, MBA or equivalent preferred. • Certifications in Business Architecture (BIZBOK, TOGAF), Program Management (PgMP, MSP), or Agile Product Ownership