About the company
Our partner is an international fashion and lifestyle business with a modern enterprise technology foundation.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the overall technology strategy, translating business challenges into pragmatic technology solutions and recommendations.
- Own and continuously evolve the IT roadmap, prioritizing initiatives according to business value, risk, cost, and strategic objectives.
- Maintain a coherent enterprise architecture and proactively manage technical debt and architectural complexity.
- Oversee the enterprise application portfolio, including SAP S/4HANA, e-commerce platforms, product information management, digital asset management, integration middleware, and future systems such as PDM/PLM and CRM.
- Lead near-term technology priorities, including stabilizing the ERP environment, selecting and implementing a new PDM/PLM solution, and strengthening B2B and D2C e-commerce capabilities.
- Ensure technology projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
- Lead the Data, Analytics & AI function, including business intelligence, data engineering, and master data coordination.
- Guide analytics teams in identifying valuable use cases, selecting appropriate tools, and developing future capabilities.
- Identify and implement practical, high-impact AI opportunities using a pragmatic, ROI-focused approach.
- Manage external technology vendors, service providers, and delivery partners within a multi-vendor, best-of-breed operating model.
- Lead vendor selection, contract negotiations, renewals, commercial terms, and ongoing performance management.
- Own the IT budget and ensure disciplined management of operating and capital expenditure, with clear visibility into costs and returns.
- Lead and develop geographically distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones, including internal teams, offshore resources, and external partners.
- Coach team leads, strengthen organizational capabilities, and foster a lean, adaptable culture focused on pragmatic delivery and strong business partnership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technology or IT roles, including at least 3–5 years in senior technology leadership positions managing cross-functional teams.
- Proven experience leading distributed international teams across multiple locations and time zones, including offshore resources and external delivery partners.
- Strong strategic and advisory capabilities, with the ability to challenge assumptions, assess alternatives, and recommend the right technology approach rather than simply executing predefined plans.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex enterprise application portfolios, ideally spanning ERP, e-commerce, product management, and related business systems.
- Strong understanding of enterprise technology architecture and experience maintaining scalable, coherent application landscapes.
- Proven experience with enterprise platforms such as SAP S/4HANA and familiarity with modern e-commerce, PIM, DAM, integration, and cloud technologies.
- Strong vendor and partner management skills within multi-vendor technology environments, including selection, negotiation, contract management, and performance oversight.
- Experience owning and managing an IT budget in the single-digit millions of euros.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to connect technology decisions with commercial outcomes, operational efficiency, risk, and ROI.
- Experience leading data, analytics, and ideally AI initiatives, with a pragmatic approach to identifying and implementing high-value use cases.
- Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
- Comfortable operating in an international, collaborative environment with multiple teams, cultures, locations, and time zones.
- Pragmatic, entrepreneurial, and solutions-oriented mindset, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational execution.
- Willingness to maintain a regular presence at the technology hub in Romania while working primarily remotely from Germany.
Conditions
- Full-time, permanent position with remote-work flexibility.
- Flexible working hours and location.
- Opportunity to lead a broad and strategically important technology function within an international organization.
- Diverse and challenging responsibilities spanning enterprise applications, e-commerce, data, analytics, AI, architecture, and technology transformation.
- Collaborative and supportive international working environment.
- Flat organizational structure with short decision-making paths and the opportunity to implement your own ideas.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Corporate benefits program.
- Regular employee events and opportunities to connect with colleagues.
- Discounts on company products.