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 ambiguity and the ability to bring necessary clarity to others
• Strong problem resolution skills and work process orientation
• Employee experience focused and a passion for customer solutions
• Acts decisively while thinking strategically
• Ability to think and collaborate beyond silos and possesses an end to end mindset

Additional Notes

• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position and may be provided based on eligibility
• Design Your Day, Dow’s flexible workplace strategy, is available for this role

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.  

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals. 
• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building. 
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs. 
• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
  • Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).  
  • ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.  
  • Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation. 

Join our team, we can make a difference together. 

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment.  We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.

Why Patients Need You

Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is innovative and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in manufacturing, testing, or compliance, your contribution will directly impact patients.

What You Will Achieve

The PGS Learning Technology & Solutions (LT&S) Lead is responsible for leading a team of individual contributors who provide global expertise to the PGS network focused on Learning Management System (LMS) and related technology. The LT&S Team Lead serves as the overall PGS business owner / representative for the Pfizer LMS, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure the effective implementation and optimization of the global PGS LMS. The LT&S Lead represents PGS on the Enterprise Technology Steering Committee and sponsors the PGS global LMS forum (CoP) to drive excellence and compliance, including effective adoption of best practices.

The LT&S Team is an integral part of the PGS Personnel and Training Management Process Center of Excellence (COE) and partners with sites and functions to establish, manage and execute a digital learning roadmap for PGS. In addition, the LT&S team ensures global training programs/solutions are developed to support colleague readiness and that appropriate learning methods and technologies are used for delivery. To enable the Learning Vision, the LT&S team conducts external benchmarking, evaluates business trends, and works with Pfizer digital partners to determine innovative systems and tools that meeting PGS’ evolving needs.

How You Will Achieve It

Serve as the Business Owner for the PGS Learning Management System:

• Serve as the PGS business owner for the Pfizer LMS, partnering with the Enterprise Process Owner to assure the enterprise strategy effectively represents PGS needs.

• Partner with Digital, Quality, Compliance, and the sites to ensure an effective continuous improvement strategy of the LMS system and technologies.

• Actively support Regulatory and internal audits and can effectively represent the PGS LMS system.

• Represent PGS on system upgrades, assuring input to / review of user requirements, evaluation of new features / functions, execution of testing, and development of training materials.

• Sponsor the PGS PLA Community of Practice (CoP) that drives collaboration and adoption of best practices and solves system issues. Guides the team on proper escalation to CoE (center of Excellence) when support is warranted.

• Communicates with LPOs and system administrators about issues with and changes to the LMS.

• Review / approve Enterprise requests for PGS Security Roles.

• Serve as the PGS Change Network Lead for Growth & Development Learning Platform.

Build and maintain an LMS and technology strategy and roadmap that is fit for purpose:

• Partners with CoE and stakeholders to establish, manage and execute a digital learning roadmap for PGS. Puts forward business cases that support the roadmap and channels investments wisely.

• Define and implement network strategies, methods, and tools to promote effective and efficient learning solutions and technology.

• Sponsor or lead use cases/pilots for new methods and tools that improve delivery and effectiveness of training.

Provide leadership, coaching and support for the Learning Solutions and Technology team:

• Leads the group to ensure that appropriate eLearning is developed using good instructional design principles and fit for purpose tools that promote speed and efficiencies. Ensures appropriate training modalities.

• Provides guidance, support, development, prioritization and coaching to direct reports to ensure the team is delivering on objectives with high impact.

• Engages and promotes agile ways of working by looking for opportunities to cross-train within the team and more broadly in the network.

• Builds a high performing team that works synergistically with the larger QSOC team.

• Shares expertise of solutions and technology with Personnel and Training Management COE to increase knowledge of available technologies and influence direction.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor’s Degree in education, training and development, instructional design or related fields.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in training and development and instructional design, using multiple technologies.

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing and regulatory compliance needed.

• From 10 to 15 years of experience leading a high performing and engaged team that is aligned to business goals/KPIs and demonstrates value.

• Ability to identify risks and need for escalation.

• Can communicate and influence at senior director or VP level.

• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and through data analytics and trends, takes an informed position.

• Continuous improvement mindset and challenges status quo.

Nice-to-Have

• Master’s Degree preferred.

  
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
 

Physical/Mental Requirements

• Ability to stand / sit for extended periods of time. 

Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel, or Environment Requirements

• Travel up to 10% of the time; flexibility to work off hours as needed to support all regions. 

• Work Location Assignment: On Premise.

Other job details

• Last day to apply: March 29, 2024.

• Relocation assistance: No.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Job Description Summary

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us!

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day portfolio activities and establish working plan for each vendor within the portfolio
• Analyze and monitor performance, invoicing, and approved vendor roadmap.
• Plan & facilitate business reviews and checkpoint meetings
• Analyze key performance indicators to produce reports on portfolio and projects being worked on by vendors within said portfolio
• Bring up issues that threaten portfolio and project success
• Communicate with vendor partners about their performance
• Align with other portfolio managers to ensure that the company investments are being effectively monitored and that returns are being improved based upon the agreed objectives.
• Manage and minimize risk of assigned portfolio.
• Partner with procurement & data teams to maintain up-to-date and complete performance data for portfolio reviews.
• Attend industry conferences and participate on panels to facilitate information flow, individual growth and understand other F500 best practices.
• Contribute to ongoing portfolio strategy development, rationalizing the vendor landscape to understand when to downsize, add or replace vendors within the portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Administrator, Computer Science or similar subject area required
• Master's Degree preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of IT vendor management, portfolio management and financial management experience
• Generalist mindset with strong analytical skills and ability to act in an entrepreneurial setting decisively, yet in a disciplined manner
• Ability to influence and break down silos within an organization as well across organizations
• Ability to understand the mapping of organizational vision and contribute ideas
• Ability to communicate complex business challenges in a simplified manner
• Must be an authority who can influence partners in written and oral communications
• Ability to lead change using positive and collaborative methods
• Highly collaborative work style which includes working optimally across all organizational levels
• Experience working in a highly matrixed organization and in overcoming ambiguity
• Leading by example, mentoring, and inspiring others all around you
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent judgment and decision-making
• Able to align and work with diverse global stakeholders
• Strong humility, listening, creativity, and negotiation skills
• Accept ownership
• Personal integrity and an ability to maintain confidentiality of company and client information

For certain roles at BD, employment is contingent upon the Company’s receipt of sufficient proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In some locations, testing for COVID-19 may be available and/or required. Consistent with BD’s Workplace Accommodations Policy, requests for accommodation will be considered pursuant to applicable law.

Why Join Us?

A career at BD means being part of a team that values your opinions and contributions and that encourages you to bring your authentic self to work. It’s also a place where we help each other be great, we do what’s right, we hold each other accountable, and learn and improve every day.  

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow, and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.  

To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers 

Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, or any other protected status. 

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