HR Technology Director

At Dow, we believe in putting people first and we’re passionate about delivering integrity, respect and safety to our customers, our employees and the planet.  

Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place. 

Dow has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an HR Technology Director located in Midland, Michigan or Houston, Texas!

About You and This Role

In this role, you will define and deliver the HR digital strategy, supporting a model that drives Dow's Employee Experience. You will identify, prioritize, and recommend strategic investments in technology improvements aligned to corporate IT strategy. You will define technology performance metrics and key performance indicators based on leading practices and the desired employee experience and be accountable for the performance and results of the HR IT discipline, guided by the overall HR and IT strategies.  You will manage relationships to generate and initiate value-add capabilities and delivery with HR processes and technology to achieve desired results. You will drive automation and digitalization of HR processes with key stakeholders from HR and our internal clients, ensuring that HR can deliver efficiently and effectively to move our HR data and analytics strategy forward.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global HR technology team to uplift HR services using contemporary digital solutions
• Understand business needs, collect client feedback and support improvement in processes through the effective utilization of HR technology to drive business goals and best-in-class employee experience
• Provide input into the functional strategy, own and drive the short and long-term HR digital strategy with strong emphasis on direct access adoption, automation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure HR technology delivery to enable best-in-class execution
• Define, manage, and own the HR technology support model including end user support and relevant HR Technology administration
• Manage relationships between HR and relevant internal and external partners, including the global CIO organization, Diamond Systems Solutions and key suppliers, to ensure alignment and improve the effectiveness of HR technology decision making
• Own and lead the investment strategy, plan and process for HR technology collaboration with business and functional partners as well as DSS Business Process Directors and overall DSS Leadership Team
• Accountable for business case development, effectively articulating projects in terms of their overall benefits, costs, strategic alignment and risk
• Collaborate with IT Systems Architects to ensure systems architecture supports and align with the business process and opportunities defined within the investment plan
• Work proactively with the business to understand the future HR process and technology needs and produce ways of capturing and analyzing this information to provide relevant input to business
• Set HR systems integration strategies to support M&A transactions

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree or relevant military experience at or above a U.S. E6 ranking or Canadian Petty Officer 2nd Class or Sergeant

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in HR or Information Technology fields
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process

Preferred Skills

• Experience in HR or leading an HR Tech organization.
• Experience with Service Now, Workday, Journeys or similar Tech
• Strong influential and people leadership skills; builds successful relationships and thrives in diverse networks and working teams
• Drives issues to resolution while keeping responsibility and accountability in the right place and maintains an atmosphere of collaboration
• Demonstrated ability to challenge the status quo
• Comfortable leveraging the knowledge and experience of others and leading through influence vs. doing it themselves
• Owner mindset and enjoys using data to tell a story or make a case for change
• Proven ability to develop trust despite pressures and urgency
• Ability to manage diverse stakeholders
• High tolerance for ambigui