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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
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.
Dow is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to providing opportunities without regard for race, color, religion, sex, including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity, national origin, age, disability and genetic information, including family medical history. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may call us at 1-833-My Dow HR (833-693-6947) and select option 8.
