Digital Business Partner - Human Resources

Job Description Be an essential element to a brighter future.

We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind. Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet.

Job Description Albemarle is hiring for a Digital Business Partner - Human Resources. This position is hybrid and located in Charlotte NC.

Position Overview The Digital Business Partner (DBP) serves as the strategic interface between business functions and IT, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable business value and support enterprise strategy.

This role operates as a trusted advisor to functional leadership, translating business strategy into prioritized technology outcomes, shaping demand, and co-owning value realization across the portfolio. The DBP plays a critical role in advancing digital, data, AI, and automation capabilities across the enterprise.

Technology Business Partners align technology capabilities to business priorities, drive adoption of new digital capabilities, and help ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

What You Will Do Strategy Alignment Participate in business strategy, OKR, and annual planning processes (AOP / LRP)
Translate functional strategy into multi-year technology and capability roadmaps

Identify digital, data, AI, and automation opportunities that improve performance and cost position

Serve as strategic advisor to functional leadership on technology trends and opportunitiesDBPs typically collaborate with functional leaders to understand strategy and develop aligned technology roadmaps.

Demand Shaping & Prioritization Shape demand before intake through early problem framing and value qualification

Facilitate prioritization using value, risk, and capacity trade-offs Translate business needs into technology investment priorities and solution direction

Partner with Architecture, Product, and Delivery to ensure solution fit and scalability

Demand management and translating business needs into technology priorities are core DBP responsibilities.

Value Articulation & Realization Lead business case development and ROI modeling

Define measurable success metrics prior to funding approval

Track value realization post-deployment and drive corrective actions where needed

Provide portfolio transparency and value reporting to functional leadershipDBPs are expected to quantify value and ensure technology initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.

Executive Partnership Maintain strong executive relationships within assigned functions

Act as primary liaison between business and IT leadership

Provide insight, best practices, and perspective in leadership decision forums

Partner with Change, HR, and Transformation teams to drive adoption and business outcomesDBPs serve as the primary bridge between business units and IT and build trusted stakeholder relationships.

Roadmap Creation & Co-Ownership Co-create and co-own annual and multi-year technology roadmaps with business leaders

Connect roadmap investments to strategy, demand signals, and value realization outcomes

Support portfolio reviews and investment governance forums

Ensure roadmap alignment with enterprise architecture and platform strategiesDBPs commonly co-develop multi-year roadmaps and align them to enterprise strategy and architecture.

Human Resources & Communications Domain Responsibility Summary Responsible for enabling and supporting technology capabilities across Human Resources, Global Communications, and External Affairs. This domain focuses on improving workforce effectiveness, employee experience, communications effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and organizational agility through process excellence, data-driven decision making, automation, and digital innovation.

What You Bring

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Digitization or related field8+ years experience in IT Business Partner, Digital Transformation, Consulting, or Product roles

Experience working with executive stakeholders

Experience in business case development and portfolio prioritization

Strong understanding of enterprise technology environments (ERP, data, integration, cloud, AI)
Preferred:

Experience in manufacturing, chemicals, or industrial environments

Experience with digital transformation, AI, automation, or data platforms MBA or advanced technical…