Title:  Business Partner - Information Technology

Basic Function

HF Sinclair is seeking a Business Partner – Information Technology who provides partnership, direction and guidance to a specific business community or communities to ensure that business goals are met through the effective provision of technology solutions and services. The Business Partner (BP) – Information Technology (IT) engages with the key stakeholders in the business organization to develop and agree medium to long term strategic plans and capability roadmaps, ensuring alignment with HollyFrontier objectives. He/she acts as the trusted business advisor providing oversight and guidance to enable the successful delivery of specific projects, and influences the delivery of IT services. The BP also actively markets and promotes IT services and ensures that the demand for these is managed and prioritized effectively. The key to success as this BP is a broad knowledge of relevant business division technologies and trends, and compelling communication to business leadership how this enables future business capability. Another key to success is to be able to leverage the IT organization to drive successful delivery, considerate of local needs and global direction.

 

Job Duties

• Influence a global matrix organization and coordinate both regional and global stakeholders.

• Promote a business-focused, results-oriented technical culture within IT in support of the business.

• Exhibit an expert understanding of functional procurement disciplines and technical IT knowledge (applications, analytics, hardware, software, security, etc.) to identify opportunities to leverage information technology to achieve business objectives and assist in deployment.

• Ability to evaluate, recommend, roadmap and drive changes to current and future system requirements to meet global business organizational needs.

• Possess deep knowledge of the IT industry for that business, best practice, business and incumbent functional area in order to be a trusted business advisor for the Functional Leaders in the region.

• Provide strategic consulting for large, cross boundary and/or “first-of-a-kind” projects within the function.

• Drive strategic business value and innovation. Build and maintain strong relationships with the HollyFrontier Business leadership.

• Act as owner of IT for functional or geographic area and liaison between IT teams and the business.

• Partner at a strategic level with business stakeholders to communicate successes, demonstrate IT value and appropriate governance of IT activities.

• Leverage common solutions and innovative technologies.

• Develop, share, and leverage best practices across IT region and shares with other regions.

• Generate Regional/Functional organization and talent. Develop and maintain a broad business understanding.

• Maintain up-to-date awareness of the current and future directions of the industry and associated technologies

• Manage services provided to business through existing and new technology.

• Gather business needs and gains alignment between business needs and technical capabilities, engaging with Business Analysts and Enterprise Architects.

• Capture demand via the agreed process, provides recommendations for prioritization, and oversees program and project initiatives.

• Manage business expectations with business stakeholders based on IT resource availability.

• Promote business projects and their value to the IT leaders and community.

Experience

• 10 plus years of IT experience or relevant functional business and process expertise appropriate to the role is required.

• Experience in strategic decision making and successful influencing on leadership level is required.

• Previous experience with, and exposure to, SAP technology and processes is required.

• Experience building and communicating future business plans and capabilities along with being able to provide insights into the technologies needed for delivery is required.

Preferred Experience:

• Financial acumen to support business case creation and measurement is highly preferred.

• Broad knowledge of the specific business’s technologies and capabilities.

Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the organization including suppliers, partners and customers.

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree required

Preferred Education Level:

• Master's Degree preferred

Required Skills

Preferred Skills:

• Project or program management experience in dealing with medium or large projects

• Previous experience in working in various IT related Business roles

• Prior Consulting experience in IT or in the related Business area

• Verbal and written fluency in English is mandatory

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibility

None

Physical Requirements

Job conditions require sitting, talking or hearing, making visual inspections, making precise hand and finger movements, reaching or grasping, ability to operate and drive all assigned company vehicles at company standard insurance rates is essential valid state driver license and proof of insurance required. Job conditions may require standing and walking.

Our One HF Sinclair Culture:

At HF Sinclair, we are united through our One HF Sinclair Culture, which is underpinned by our five core values of Safety, Integrity, Teamwork, Ownership and Inclusion. Developed to empower our people, our five core cultural values are at the heart of everything we do and extend to how we engage our stakeholders. These values influence our decisions, shape our behaviors and keep us connected across the entire organization.

We maintain a true Safety culture for our employees, communities, environments and customers. Our goal is to make sure everyone returns home safely each day. We have a long-standing commitment to Integrity and ethical behavior and do what is right for our employees, investors, communities and the environment. We encourage employees to Step Up and Stand Out by championing a culture of Teamwork and Ownership. We foster a culture of Inclusion by encouraging diversity of experiences, viewpoints and backgrounds. What makes each of us different, together makes us stronger.

About HF Sinclair Corporation

HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,500 branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to its refineries and the petroleum industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer

HF Sinclair Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other prohibited ground of discrimination.