Director, Software Engineering Global, Converse

Become part of the Converse Team

Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

By joining our team, you will be a strategic partner that collaboratively delivers enterprise value and innovation. We define leadership as growing yourself, growing together and growing the business: Be authentic, courageous and inspired by possibilities. Create an environment of inclusion and trust. Deliver results with clarity and accountability. We will rely on you to bring your whole self to work and you can expect in return an environment that fosters growth by challenging and inspiring you to lead in your space.

ABOUT THIS ROLE

As the demand for technology continues to evolve, we seek individuals who bring a unique perspective and new ways of thinking to elevate the brand’s potential. Our team maximizes a diverse set of backgrounds and skills to create and iterate on technical solutions that drive growth for our business. We work cross-functionally within the enterprise to solve problems and bring creative solutions to life. Always connected by a bigger purpose, we keep the consumer at the center of everything we do.

The Director of Technology: Converse Operations, Logistics and Corporate Functions will report directly to the Converse Senior Director of Global Technology.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Someone who can lead and transform the following key areas:

1) Provide Technology products, solutions and strategic partnership to enable the business strategies of supported functions, especially to drive Converse’s growth as an innovative and digital brand. This includes areas such as:

• Global and Regional Logistics

• Warehouse Management, Robotics

• Order to Cash

• Forecast to Receivables

• SAP Development and Platform evolution

• Order and Inventory Management focused on Direct to Consumer

• Finance, Procurement and HR

2) Converse Global Technology – provide technical leadership and partner with other leaders, to ensure all solutions are fully supported by Global Technology. Ensure that we are maximizing and leveraging our resources (people, funds, processes), while also specifically collaborating with areas such as:

• Data and Analytics

• Security and Data Privacy

• Architecture

• Technical Operations and Product Support

3) Nike Tech – Drive a strong partnership with colleagues across Nike, Inc., globally, to learn, share, leverage, and partner on solutions that meet shared business strategies:

• SAP S4 transformation and roadmap

• WM evolution

• Inventory and Order Management platforms

• EDI, Integrations

SPECIFIC KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive Logistics and Operations Technology strategies and execution across all capabilities.

• Ensure alignment with Converse strategic priorities. Drive a balanced approach to near- team goals (Win Now), while relentlessly focusing on longer term strategies (Creating the Future).

• Provide subject matter expertise, industry knowledge, and team leadership for Technology function.

• Engage Global and GEO Logistics and Operations business team members and partners to influence and drive best practices and innovative improvements to platforms, systems and processes.

• Effectively manage priorities across multiple products, technical teams, and business collaborators, using strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills.

• Manage an annual $4M+ budget to accomplish business and technology strategies.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

If this is you, you’ll be working across multiple global and GEO Tech and businesses teams, clarifying short and mid term priorities while continuously communicating and thinking about the future.

You will have a good understanding about Footwear and retail businesses, while the right level of technical acumen to design our Tech roadmap to support our aspirations.

Additionally, you will also help to bring clarity to ambiguity and to shape your business peers’ strategic objectives by creating and implementing roadmaps of core Tech products, managing scope and delivery of key enhancements / programs.

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