Responsibilities:

• Understand customer business and the industry by actively researching their sector
• Understand what represents best of breed from a technology perspective in the eCommerce and retail markets
• Establish technical credibility with existing and prospective clients, providing the ability to cultivate relationships and envision creative sales and solution strategies that generate additional revenue
• Understand complex business problems and commercial frameworks and how to apply a logical, systematic approach to arrive at an appropriate solution
• Understand commercial and disruptive technology trends in the market and understand how these interact to constrain and inform a solution
• Know who the leaders and disrupters are in the industry and why
• Understand what HBI’s digital program will deliver from a business and benefits perspective and advise on areas where this is not congruent with the evolving solution
• Create a value proposition that is directly linked to our business model and issues
• Quickly learn new business models and drivers and articulate how to leverage them
• Present to CxOs, discuss business process with business managers and work with developers on solution strategy, architecture, and code
• Define the digital solution from the initial ideas in response to the business challenges through prototype, MVP / pilot to production
• Identify innovation ideas to meet the business challenge
• Lead cross-organization, multi-functional teams in a collaborative approach to solution discovery, design and development particularly through the DTC interface.

Qualifications

Specific Experience/Education/Certification Requirements:

• Fluent in contemporary Digital technologies and platforms, including CX, mobile app dev, APIs, SaaS, MicroServices, OSS, AI and Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics.
• Will understand how these industry related business patterns and their underpinning technologies can be used to meet business needs
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination in business, computer science, information technology or related field preferred
• 4-6 or more years of business solutions, technical consulting, architecture, or eCommerce experience
• Be technical across a number of areas – importantly understand coding in modern languages including mobile app and backend development, data science, modern IT architecture modeling, CICD
• Understand the details of Agile methodologies and related methods (e.g. SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Agile, DevOps); be able to apply these as appropriate in different contexts and solution phases
• First-class influencing skills, able to quickly become a though leader and trusted advisor
• Familiarity with business and technical concepts such as business process design, applications development and service management in a Digital operating model
• Outstanding communication including written, diagrammatic and oral and able to reduce complex ideas to simple terms and express these to both a non-technical and technical audience
• Need to have a broad base of skills and experience and will need to work in small teams in an autonomous manner
• Have a proven pedigree of leading large IT projects
• Be knowledgeable across industry, business, IT strategy and digital strategy, and technology domains. Apparel and footwear industry experience preferred.
• Have experience of applications and will have transitioned through an architecture role before growing their business and commercial skills
• Keep up with the latest trends, be a disruptive thinker and have experience of driving cultural change in organizations