IT Director - HR & Legal

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.

When you join Valvoline Global, you’ll become part of a culture that celebrates creativity, innovation, and excellence. Together, we’re shaping the future of automotive and industrial solutions.

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 preferred, but not mandatory.

Competencies Desired

•    Strategic Business Partnership — Builds trusted relationships with function leadership to shape demand and define value-driven outcomes.
•    Communication and Influence — Translates complex blueprints/roadmaps and delivery dependencies into clear, actionable plans.
•    Functional Delivery Leadership — Owns the full delivery lifecycle within a specific business function, driving accountability for results.
•    Business Process Architecture — Designs and governs integrated business processes and system capabilities.
•    Portfolio Prioritization and Governance — Balances competing needs through structured prioritization and capacity management.
•    Change and Adoption Leadership — Ensures solutions are understood, adopted, and deliver measurable business value.
•    Analytical and Systems Thinking — Connects processes, systems, and data to visualize and optimize end-to-end value streams.
•    Talent and Team Leadership — Develops high-performing, multidisciplinary teams aligned around outcome delivery.

Scope Boundaries:

•    Owns and manages the single, end‑to‑end Delivery Team for the assigned function; however, the role is intentionally structured, so the Director does not need to operate in the deep technical weeds of how solutions are engineered. Embedded specialists within the Delivery Team provide technical depth.
•    Does not personally produce detailed technical designs or solution architectures. Enterprise and Solution Architects embedded in the Delivery Team provide those deliverables and ensure alignment with standards.
•    Does not write code, configure platforms, or build integrations directly. Application and Platform Engineering contributors are assigned (often full‑time for the duration) to the Delivery Team to perform this work within the team’s cadence.
•    Does not operate as a shared enterprise service for multiple functions. The Director’s remit should be to a single function or a group of functions, with outcomes, priorities, and capacity planned for that function only.

Key Interfaces and Support Model

The Delivery Team is predominantly composed of functional experts (business architects, process designers, product owners), supported by matrix‑assigned technical specialists who join the team as needed. 

Core interfaces and embedded roles include:
•    Enterprise & Solution Architecture (embedded): Defines reference architectures, solution designs, integration patterns, and non‑functional requirements; chairs design decisions within the Delivery Team.
•    Application & Platform Engineering (embedded): Builds configurations, integrations, automations, and technical enablers within the team’s backlog; collaborates on CI/CD and test automation.

The IT Director – Technology Development acts as the home leader for all embedded engineers, ensuring technical health, coding standards, and sustainable velocity across delivery teams.
    Their Technology Development Managers serve as resource and capability stewards, responsible for assigning the right engineers to each Delivery Team, balancing skill alignment, availability, and professional growth.
    The Director of Business Strategic Execution owns what gets built and why, while the Technology Development leadership ensures how it is built meets enterprise engineering standards and technical best practices.
    Together, they maintain dual accountability: business outcome ownership (via the Delivery Team) and technical excellence ownership (via the Development organization).

•    Data & Analytics (embedded/pooled): Models data, prepares pipelines, and delivers reports/insights tied to process KPIs and value realization.
•    PMO / Program & Project Management (pooled): Provides delivery governance, RAID, budgeting, scheduling, and cross‑initiative dependency management.
•    Change Management & Training (embedded/pooled): Drives communications, readiness, training, and adoption metrics to ensure outcomes land and sustain.
•    Security, Compliance, and Privacy (consulted/embedded as needed): Ensures designs and delivery meet security baselines and regulatory obligations.
•    IT Operations & Support (handoff partner): Accepts transition to run with runbooks, SLAs, and monitoring; participates in early involvement for operability.
•    Vendors & System Integrators (managed through the team): Augment capacity or provide product expertise while conforming to enterprise standards and team ways of working.

Valvoline Global is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and skills. We strictly prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind, regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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•    Email: Valvolineglobalcareers@valvolineglobal.com

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Are You Ready to Make an Impact?

At Valvoline Global, we’re looking for passionate and talented individuals to join our journey of innovation and excellence. Are you ready to shape the future with us? Apply today.

Requisition ID: 2197