Director of Information Technology

3 weeks ago

Lyndhurst, United States Eddie Bauer Full time

From designing the first patented down jacket in America, to winning 60 industry awards in the last 10 years, Eddie Bauer has built a legacy of inspiration, innovation, and exploration over the last century. While our business has changed over the past 100 years, our work has remained centered around engaging in the transformative powers of the outdoors. Our ideas and actions are stronger, bolder, and more successful when we act together. We are committed as an organization in finding diverse and unique talent, with varied perspectives, and many different ideas. Every role within Eddie Bauer, from our corporate office to our stores, will have an opportunity to play a part in achieving our mission of inspiring, empowering and enabling everyone to experience the outdoors and live their adventure.

Purpose: The Director of IT for Eddie Bauer is responsible for overseeing the use of IT systems at Eddie Bauer, both legacy systems and shared SPARC systems. They will work closely with business leaders to understand requirements and determine the optimal way to meet those needs. If this sounds like your kind of adventure, read on.


Core Responsibilities

  • Provides strategic, functional and technical leadership for brand specific technologies and team members
  • Works collaboratively with brand business leadership and SPARC enterprise system owners to insure capabilities are prioritized and ongoing operational delivery is provided for their brand.
  • Oversees full life cycle support for legacy technologies including mainframe
  • Responsible for enabling brand growth through effective management and partnership with brand business executives and enterprise technology teams; deploying some technologies which are specific to the brand’s multiple channels.
  • Manages and coaches the brands dedicated technology associates
  • Actively collaborates and manages through positive feedback and proactive interaction.
  • Maintains strong relationships with business stakeholders and actively collaborates across all levels of the organization
  • Owns the brand technology portfolio and works in a matrixed team structure to insure data consistency, integration integrity across systems
  • Translates business request and objectives into technology requirements in order to help the team establish appropriate IT based solutions for the brand
  • Helps prioritize initiatives, resource allocation and operational issue resolution
  • Prepares budgets and manages project spend and operational expense insuring alignment and adherence to plan when actualizing; This includes invoice processing
  • Drives technology discussions and facilitates decision making with cross functional teams
  • In matrixed role, reports to the SPARC enterprise application team and oversees the full lifecycle of software and project implementations ensuring that business deliverables are consistently met and that solutions provided meet high quality standards
  • Leads continuous improvement exercises to drive effectiveness and efficiency in IT delivery
  • This is a “hands on” working IT leadership role.


Qualifications

  • Must have 8-12 years of experience leading large scale enterprise solutions in retail or wholesale environments. Specialty apparel experience is a plus.
  • Must have end to end functional understanding of the retail/wholesale lifecycle from ideation to product delivery and customer sales
  • Must have experience with ERP, EDI and Mainframe technologies. SAP will be a plus
  • Must be highly organized, and have strong communication skills.
  • BS required; MS preferred. 10+ years of progressively responsible IT experience in leadership role, inclusive of 5+ years in IT applications management position.
  • Should have 3-5 years of experience with Mainframe application development teams
  • A businessperson’s perspective and the ability to manage issues rather than tasks
  • Experience with ERP package implementation and optimization projects, ongoing application modernization, enhancements, and support.
  • Understanding of the businesses processes and ability to map and define data requirements between multiple systems
  • Demonstrated professionalism, courtesy, and tact to others; and display high standards of ethical conduct


SPARC Group LLC is an operating partner to global brands, providing retail and ecommerce management, sourcing, design and other operational and administrative support. It currently operates Aeropostale, Nautica, Lucky Brand, Brooks Brothers, Forever 21, Eddie Bauer and Reebok in the United States and Puerto Rico. SPARC Group LLC is owned, through its parent company SPARC Group Holdings LLC, by Simon Property Group and Authentic Brands Group. With Aeropostale, Nautica, Lucky Brand, Brooks Brothers, Forever 21, Eddie Bauer and Reebok combined brands, SPARC Group operates retail locations, a strong wholesale business with thousands of points of sale in the U.S. and Canada, and the ecommerce platforms for all brands.


SPARC Group LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We value a culture of inclusion and diversity within our workforce, and are committed to maintaining a workplace free from prohibited employment conduct, including discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, domestic partner status, civil partnership, status as a covered veteran, status in the Uniformed Services of the United States, citizenship and any other characteristic protected by law (“Protected Characteristics”).

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