IT Director

Lead the team as a local IT Business Partner

• Owns the local IT / Business governance & systems

• Identifies new business needs to be addressed locally or with Central support

• Ensures that local business needs and issues are well captured and understood

• Ensures the IT service delivery for store projects with Business (e.g. store

openings, relocation, pop-up)

• Ensures that service levels are at the target and proposes corrective action plan

when necessary

• Ensures compliance with local legal regulations governing data protection &

cybersecurity measures in link with CISO

• Provides leadership in crisis situations involving local IT infrastructure failure,

security breaches or IT incidents

Participates in Central IS&T Governance

• Is responsible for deployment of Global IS&T Strategy, standards & practices in

Japan, and acts as local referent for any questions regarding the global IT

strategy

• Ensures IS&T processes, guidelines, standards & consistency framework are

applied and followed in Japan (Product management, Project Management,

Security, Budget management, Architecture, …)

• Ensures local solutions are compliant with IS&T central guidelines and

standards (architecture, security, data, …) and involves Central IS&T as per

defined in the processes

• Raises risks and issues to the right level of escalation

Elaborates & monitors Zone budget

• Elaborates & follows-up local zone budget (Budget, R1, R2…) CAPEX & OPEX

• Communicates within zone ecosystem consolidated Japan budget (local &

central reinvoiced budget)

• Monitor & communicate the Japan roadmap & Global Roadmap (Local &

Central IT led projects impacting Japan), key milestones, deadlines,

achievements & risks

• Steers deployment of core model within zone, when necessary, and in

coordination with Product Teams

• Steers local projects with high sensitivity or visibility, making sure that they are

approved and aligned by / with Central IS&T

• Minimum of +10 years’ IT experience and +5 years’ experience in Team Management.

• Experience with large-scale application projects such as CRM, ERP, POS, e-commerce implementation • Excellent Project management skills.

• Service orientation. Autonomy and curiosity. Ability to quickly ramp-up on new solutions and technologies

• Strong communication and facilitation skills

• Attention to detail and quality of deliverables

• Experience working in the retail industry / B2C a must.

• Experience providing internal IT Support (remote and on-site)

• Fluent in Japanese & English; French a plus

• Bachelor’s degree. Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems preferable.