Chief Technology Officer, Wear That

3 weeks ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Talent Pal Full time

**INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT**

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

As the WEAR THAT, Chief Technology Officer you will be responsible for providing vision and leadership for developing and implementing technology initiatives. The Chief Technology Officer is a forward-thinking strategic planner who develops the company's technology strategies and improves cost effectiveness, service quality and business development.

The Chief Technology Officer must possess agility in their approach to problem-solving, with the ability to develop effective strategies and see them through to execution. They should also be capable of hands-on coding and have a willingness to get involved in technical implementation wherever possible.

Working closely with the Founder and CEO, your responsibilities will include (but not limited to)

**What you'll be doing**
- Act as an advocate for the organization’s IT vision via regular written and in-person communications with the organization’s executives, department heads, and end users.
- Approve, prioritize, and control projects and the project portfolio as they relate to the selection, acquisition, development, and installation of major information systems.
- Assess and communicate risks associated with IT investments.
- Assess and make recommendations on the improvement or re-engineering of the IT organization.
- Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations.
- Define and communicate corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems.
- Determine an organization's long-term systems needs and hardware acquisitions to accomplish the organization's business objectives
- Develop and maintain an appropriate IT organizational structure that supports the needs of the business.
- Develop, track, and control the information technology annual operating and capital budgets.
- Direct development and execution of an enterprise-wide disaster recovery and business continuity plan.
- Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with Business units and monitoring of IT systems performance.
- Ensure IT system operation adheres to applicable laws and regulations.
- Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
- Establish lines of control for current and proposed information systems.
- Identify opportunities for the appropriate, cost/benefit analyses for IT spending, initiatives and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development.
- Keep current with trends and issues in the IT industry, including current technologies and prices.
- Advise, counsel, and educate executives and management on their competitive or financial impact.
- Lead IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization.
- Legal and Financial processes
- Participate in strategic and operational governance processes of the business organization as a member of the senior management team.
- Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal IT resources and extern

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