IT Director

Location

This is a remote based role with travel required to Geismar, LA as needed. Candidates should be within a drivable distance to this site.

Valentra is a focused chemical manufacturing company built on a strong operational legacy. We operate a network of formaldehyde and derivative production facilities across the U.S. Gulf Coast, supplying essential materials to blue‑chip customers who depend on safe, reliable, and high‑quality products and solutions.

While our name is new, what has not changed is how we operate. Valentra leads with care and is deeply committed to our plants, our people, and the communities where we live and work. We take pride in close, collaborative partnerships with our customers and suppliers, delivering the reliability and responsiveness their operations require.

We operate with uncompromising integrity and a strong drive for excellence, continuously improving how we work and how we serve our customers. When you join Valentra, you become part of a hands‑on organization where accountability is clear, safety comes first, and every role makes a meaningful impact.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the IT Director is responsible for the end‑to‑end leadership, governance, security, and continuous improvement of IT and digital services for Valentra LLC. The organization is in the process of being carved‑out as an independent entity, transitioning from a large corporate environment to a lean, modern, stand­alone operating model (75‑100 users). The carve‑out execution is being delivered separately;

this role acts as the customer and long‑term owner of the resulting IT and digital landscape.

This is a hands‑on leadership role with a deliberately small internal team, where success depends on strong supplier management, cyber ownership, clear service definition, and pragmatic technology leadership, rather than building a large in‑house function. Plant locations are in Geismar LA, Luling LA, and Baytown TX.

This role offers the opportunity to run and shape the IT function of a modern, independent, safety‑critical infrastructure business, with real ownership of cyber security, supplier performance, and the digital foundations that will support the company for years to come.

• Own and define the IT service offering to the business, including scope of services, standards, and service levels and expectations
• Provide clear leadership and direction across enterprise IT and OT‑adjacent platforms
• Translate business priorities into a clear, achievable IT roadmap (3‑year horizon)
• Act as the senior technology authority for the organization
• Provide team leadership by providing clear priorities, coaching and development and first‑line support oversight
• Act as the business owner of IT outcomes delivered by the carve‑out team and stabilize and refine the post‑carve‑out environment
• Establish long‑term standards, documentation, and operating models suitable for an independent company
• Manage early‑life ambiguity as the organization adapts from a large corporate environment to a lean stand‑alone model, including service level and SIPs

• Own all IT and digital supplier relationships, including ERP (Net Suite) + Oracle Data Warehouse, Historian and LIMS, Delta
  
  V support vendors (governance and integration), CMMS (Maintain
  
  X), MSPs, cloud, cyber, and infrastructure providers
• Lead supplier selection, onboarding, renegotiation, and exit (with procurement support)
• Define, monitor, and enforce SLAs, KPIs, service credits, and performance reviews
• Ensure suppliers are aligned to business outcomes, not supplier‑driven agendas
• Actively manage cross‑supplier dependencies and resolve accountability gaps
• Leverage suppliers to scale capability beyond the internal team

• Own the cyber security strategy and risk posture for the organization
• Ensure all suppliers comply with NIST‑aligned security standards
• Drive a Zero Trust approach across identity, access, endpoints, and third‑party access
• Own cyber risk assessment, incident response coordination, and…