Purpose of the role
Reporting to the Head of IT, this role assists with the development and maintenance of the IT applications for Phoebe Philo Ltd, ensuring that the applications necessary to support the business are user-friendly, effective, cost-efficient, secure, and compliant.
Responsibilities
1. Collaborate with all departments across the organization to understand their requirements and work with them to select and implement technology to support their needs, including:
2. Front end ecommerce stack: work with the digital team to ensure that the front end ecommerce stack is optimized, resilient, secure, and compliant.
3. Airtable: work with the product development and business teams to understand their needs and enhance the Airtable solution supporting the company's design and development process.
4. Finance: work with the finance team to ensure systems for accounting, reporting, accounts payable, online payments, VAT, and payroll are optimized, resilient, secure, and compliant.
5. Logistics: ensure systems for carrier management, shipping labels, returns handling, etc., are working well and improved.
6. Sustainability: work with relevant teams to optimize systems for collecting and tracking sustainability data.
7. Integrations: ensure system integrations, including middleware, are optimized, resilient, secure, and compliant.
8. Develop and manage relationships with partners and contractors to ensure technology requirements are delivered and supported.
9. Provide guidance and training to teams on all systems and platforms to optimize their usage.
10. Ensure operational reliability, stability, security, and compliance of technology services and applications using industry standards and best practices.
11. Ensure all technology processes comply with relevant laws and regulations, e.g., GDPR.
12. Drive collaboration across teams for smooth technology rollouts.
Qualifications, Skills, Experience Required
* Degree in Computer Science or demonstrable experience.
* 3-5 years of experience in technology roles within fashion, with experience in e-commerce, product development, and support functions in fashion (ideally luxury fashion).
* Experience in a start-up/scale-up environment with capability to update and improve technology stacks during different growth stages.
* Knowledge of current and emerging computer architecture, application development techniques, and suppliers/partners.
* Experience with relevant systems such as Shopify, Hubspot, Powerfront, Avalara, Global-E, JOOR, Brightpearl, Airtable, Microsoft Business Central, Concur, SDI, and no/low-code platforms like MAKE.
* Ability to lead technology projects to meet business objectives.
* Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
* Comfortable working under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
* Excellent communication skills, especially in explaining technology to non-technical stakeholders.
* Ability to collaborate and influence stakeholders effectively.
* High standards combined with resourcefulness and a can-do attitude.
* Leadership and interpersonal skills to build trust and credibility.
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