Director, Business Transformation

Primary Purpose:
- Project manage and create project plans for initiatives within the Acceleration Program, manage team resources, highlight and resolve issues/risks in order to deliver project objectives as defined
- Lead and facilitate efforts to define/document process maps for complex initiatives, incorporating the vision of the recommended solution and business workflows incorporating a continuous process capability
- Develop and maintain a customer-focused relationship with business stakeholders exhibiting a high level of collaboration, effective communication, trust and responsiveness
- Provide oversight and consultation regarding decision making to gain cross-functional alignment to achieve on-time execution of initiatives
- Develop presentation materials for workshops, project sponsor check-ins and leadership updates
- Highlight organizational impacts and cross functional gaps, and play a leading role in developing roadmaps for successful implementation of the initiative
- Partner with Data Labs and IT groups to align processes, data analytics and technology solutions
- Ensure successful adoption of initiatives through change management and process improvements activities
Key Deliverables:
- Process/workflow maps that account for the critical interdependent activities that fall under the relevant Acceleration / Special Project at hand
- Future state role charters (accountabilities, skillset) and meeting charters
- Project plans and timelines for agreed upon test and learn pilots, process enhancements or system implementations
- Additional/re-vamped key interlock meetings where needed to ensure smooth handoff or coordination across multiple teams
- Capacity assessment to create baseline capacity available and identify key investment areas to support, enable or accelerate delivery of project goals
- Playbook/use cases and governance (decision rights, review, approval, SLA/timing) for key project milestones
- Change management plan identifying impact to people/process/tools and actions, owners and timeline to mitigate risk of changes being adopted
- Technology implementation:
- From/To process map and timeline to reflect impact of new tools and their input/output requirements
- Training tools for new tools/systems

Experience:
- Bachelor's degree with 8-10 years of relevant project management experience
- Experience in defining a Brand's strategy and supporting its' execution
- Managerial experience in the Fashion Retail industry required
- Experience in leading process redesign, test and learn pilots, and technology implementation projects
- Change management experience
- Strong business acumen, paired with a customer-centric mindset and a can-do attitude

Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build effective partnerships
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Ability to interact successfully with diverse individuals at all levels
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent attention to detail, superior communication, customer service and follow-up skills
- Outstanding drive for results and action
- Ability to operate with high levels of ambiguity and to deal with significant change
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to make data-driven recommendations
- Ability to multi-task projects with equal priority, anticipate issues and provide creative solutions
- Strong computer skills in Microsoft Project, Visio, and Microsoft Office Suite

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others:Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in theirteam; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
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