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Market:NY - New York
Industry Segment:Luxury FashionLuxury Menswear
Category:IT
Seniority:Director
Job Type:Full time
Remote? Hybrid

OTB is an international fashion group, powering a range of global, unconventional brands, including Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor&Rolf, and Jil Sander. The group also controls and manages the Staff International and Brave Kid companies, and holds a minority investment in L.A. brand Amiri.

OTB embodies the brave, innovative and unapologetic spirit and vision of its founder and president Renzo Rosso, who disrupted the world of fashion with an open-minded, highly creative mentality, aimed at “building not the biggest, but the most alternative fashion group,” as he stated.

As its name suggests, – OTB stands for “Only The Brave” – the group pushes boundaries and challenges established rules to re-define the world of fashion and lifestyle, by fostering the creativity of international talents.

Through its know-how and state-of-the-art facilities, the group supports the brands in its portfolio in the development of authentic, individual concepts and sustainable, successful businesses.

Embracing consumer-centric digital innovation and advanced technologies, OTB transforms ideas into distinctive and responsible creations targeting unconventional, forward-thinking individuals.

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Job Description

Summary

The IT Director is responsible for the overall planning, organizing, and execution of IT infrastructure and support functions for OTB North America. This includes directing all IT infrastructure and support operations to meet company and internal client requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing infrastructure and the development of new technical solutions. The IT Director will own all aspects of Digital solutions including being an advocate for IT solutions, partnering to deliver roadmaps for the future, building new capabilities, and ensuring existing solutions have robust lifecycle management plans. This role will partner with global IT teams, Business clients, and vendor/partners to be successful. The applicant will lead internal and partner teams to build, enhance, and deliver these business capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure global brand strategy is effectively delivered.
  • Responsible for overseeing all the IT activities required to successfully open new stores (e.g. planning IT Needs with construction team, IT Hardware provisioning and configurations, POS setup and test, user training etc…)
  • Act as the main contact point with the 1st Level Retail Support Outsourcer to review KPI and SLA and continuously improve the service level.
  • Responsible for overseeing all the internal second level support activity for all the issues related to IT Applications and Infrastructure in all the stores and in the Head Office.
  • Responsible for Coordinating third party for Onsite activities (e.g. Onsite Support, Onsite Installation etc.)
  • Responsible for overseeing all IT infrastructure (network and systems), operations, projects, and ongoing user support.
  • Organization development and management, budget management, people development and management.
  • Global organization alignment.
  • Analyzes complex business needs presented by the user community and/or clients and recommends technical solutions.
  • Ensures the consistency and maintainability of existing infrastructure by creating, maintaining, and enforcing standards/procedures for implementing technical solutions.
  • Keeps abreast of new technology relevant to the company’s security and infrastructure.
  • Responds to the needs of a 24/7 operation, as needed.
  • Directs and prioritizes the workload of IT Infrastructure and support teams.
  • Participates in all hardware and software evaluations and maintains vendor contracts.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in global retail.
  • Deep understanding of the fashion apparel industry and operation.
  • Experience with global scale IT infrastructure project management.
  • Strong collaboration and cross-functional communication skills.
  • Strong technical ability including report creation.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and effectively prioritize.
  • Proven ability to lead company-wide projects.
  • Strategic problem solver who recognizes opportunities and can influence decision makers to move to execution.
  • Must possess high level of analytical skills and conceptual creative ability.
  • Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.
  • Solid understanding of the competitive landscape.
  • High energy and a positive demeanor are a must.
  • Strong leader, who enjoys team development.
  • Internal and External client centric.
  • Experience implementing and maintaining IT infrastructure required.
  • Passion for current and emerging trends in infrastructure technology.

MarketNY - New York
Industry SegmentLuxury FashionLuxury Menswear
CategoryIT
SeniorityDirector
Job TypeFull time
Remote? Hybrid

OTB is an international fashion group, powering a range of global, unconventional brands, including Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor&Rolf, and Jil Sander. The group also controls and manages the Staff International and Brave Kid companies, and holds a minority investment in L.A. brand Amiri.

OTB embodies the brave, innovative and unapologetic spirit and vision of its founder and president Renzo Rosso, who disrupted the world of fashion with an open-minded, highly creative mentality, aimed at “building not the biggest, but the most alternative fashion group,” as he stated.

As its name suggests, – OTB stands for “Only The Brave” – the group pushes boundaries and challenges established rules to re-define the world of fashion and lifestyle, by fostering the creativity of international talents.

Through its know-how and state-of-the-art facilities, the group supports the brands in its portfolio in the development of authentic, individual concepts and sustainable, successful businesses.

Embracing consumer-centric digital innovation and advanced technologies, OTB transforms ideas into distinctive and responsible creations targeting unconventional, forward-thinking individuals.

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Director IT
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New York
Luxury Fashion, Luxury Menswear
Full time
Posted 3 months ago

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About OTB

OTB is an international fashion group, powering a range of global, unconventional brands, including Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor&Rolf, and Jil Sander. The group also controls and manages the Staff International and Brave Kid companies, and holds a minority investment in L.A. brand Amiri.

OTB embodies the brave, innovative and unapologetic spirit and vision of its founder and president Renzo Rosso, who disrupted the world of fashion with an open-minded, highly creative mentality, aimed at “building not the biggest, but the most alternative fashion group,” as he stated.

As its name suggests, – OTB stands for “Only The Brave” – the group pushes boundaries and challenges established rules to re-define the world of fashion and lifestyle, by fostering the creativity of international talents.

Through its know-how and state-of-the-art facilities, the group supports the brands in its portfolio in the development of authentic, individual concepts and sustainable, successful businesses.

Embracing consumer-centric digital innovation and advanced technologies, OTB transforms ideas into distinctive and responsible creations targeting unconventional, forward-thinking individuals.

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Director IT

Posted 3 months ago
New York
Market: NY - New York
Industry Segment: Luxury Fashion, Luxury Menswear
Category: IT
Seniority: Director
Job Type: Full time
Remote? Hybrid

Marketplace Role

As a service to our candidates we present 1000’s of luxury industry roles as part of our Marketplace offering. For these jobs you will be forwarded to the brand to apply directly.

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Director IT
OTB
New York
Luxury Fashion, Luxury Menswear
Full time
Posted 3 months ago

Marketplace Role

As a service to our candidates we present 1000’s of luxury industry roles as part of our Marketplace offering. For these jobs you will be forwarded to the brand to apply directly.

Job Description
About OTB

OTB is an international fashion group, powering a range of global, unconventional brands, including Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, Viktor&Rolf, and Jil Sander. The group also controls and manages the Staff International and Brave Kid companies, and holds a minority investment in L.A. brand Amiri.

OTB embodies the brave, innovative and unapologetic spirit and vision of its founder and president Renzo Rosso, who disrupted the world of fashion with an open-minded, highly creative mentality, aimed at “building not the biggest, but the most alternative fashion group,” as he stated.

As its name suggests, – OTB stands for “Only The Brave” – the group pushes boundaries and challenges established rules to re-define the world of fashion and lifestyle, by fostering the creativity of international talents.

Through its know-how and state-of-the-art facilities, the group supports the brands in its portfolio in the development of authentic, individual concepts and sustainable, successful businesses.

Embracing consumer-centric digital innovation and advanced technologies, OTB transforms ideas into distinctive and responsible creations targeting unconventional, forward-thinking individuals.

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Director IT

OTB

New York

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