Manager and IT Business Partner

Why Valmont
 

We’re Here to Move the World Forward.

Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce. Are you ready to move the world forward? Apply now.

A Brief Summary of This Position: 

The Manager and IT Business Partner serves as a strategic partner to business leaders within International Infrastructure. This role bridges business objectives and IT capabilities by shaping demand, delivering technology-enabled solutions, and ensuring alignment with global IT strategy and standards. The Manager operates with a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, leading regional or functional initiatives while supporting enterprise programs. This role may manage direct reports and plays a key role in developing future IT and business leaders.

Essential Functions: 

• Act as a trusted IT partner to regional or functional business leaders
• Enable enterprise cost transparency through standardized data, ERP integration, and consistent definitions 
• Support Product Line Management-led decisions with reliable product line profitability, pricing, and customer data 
• Support IT initiatives that directly enable operations, engineering productivity, and S&OP visibility 
• Promote system standardization, simplification, and global consistency across business units and regions 
• Understand business strategies, market dynamics, and operational priorities
• Translate business needs into well-defined IT initiatives and roadmaps
• Advocate for business needs while aligning with global IT direction
• Lead delivery of medium to large-scale programs and initiatives
• Ensure projects meet scope, timeline, budget, and quality expectations
• Collaborate with global delivery teams, vendors, and shared services
• Support global ERP and digital platform deployments as required
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and global standards
• Promote reuse and commonality across regions and segments
• Identify opportunities to optimize processes, reduce cost, and improve efficiency
• Support application rationalization and technology simplification efforts
• Manage and develop direct reports (where applicable)
• Coach team members on business engagement, delivery discipline, and technical acumen
• Foster collaboration across regions, time zones, and cultures
• Support development of business cases and ROI analysis
• Manage approved budgets and track benefits realization
• Oversee regional vendor relationships and service performance

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

• Preferred Bachelors with 7+ years relevant experience or Associates Degree with 8+ years relevant experience or 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience working with global companies with the ability to work successfully in a matrixed organization
• Must show a career track of progressive IT and accompanying business roles 
• Experience should include roles in deploying global business applications and system design
• Proven track record in the management of medium to large-sized teams of direct personnel and contracted support
• Able to travel domestically up to approximately 30%
• Proven oral and written communication skills to clearly and concisely present information
• Familiarity/expertise in lean, agile, waterfall, design thinking methodologies and approaches
• Full life-cycle program management experience
• Must be able to confidently manage processes to meet agreed-upon milestones
• Ability to execute in the following areas:
• Team building and staff leadership.  Ability to identify skill gaps.
• Budget Planning / cost management experience
• IT policies and procedures development
• Strategic business visioning and planning
• Relationship building at C-Level
• Vendor selection, negotiations, and management
• Planning, communication, problem solving and presentation

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Data, Computer Science, or relevant field
• Industry-recognized professional certification
• Experience in the following applications: Salesforce.com, Sage, or IFS
• Experience supporting distribution-model businesses, including order-to-cash, inventory management, warehouse and distribution center operations, transportation and logistics, and customer fulfillment
• E-commerce experience, including digital commerce platforms and integrations with ERP, CRM, order management, payment, inventory, and fulfillment systems
• Manufacturing experience and an understanding of manufacturing business value drivers
• Experience with engineering technologies
• Acquisition and divestitures experience

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Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)

• 401k retirement plan with company match

• Paid time off

• Employer paid life insurance

• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave

• Work Life Support

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year

• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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