Portfolio and Demand Management
- Lead the end-to-end Technology demand intake and prioritization process, in partnership with Technology and business leadership.
- Ensure all initiatives align to business strategy, capacity, and funding constraints.
- Partner with Technology Teams and business leaders to evaluate delivery tradeoffs, sequencing, and capacity constraints.
- Maintain a single source of truth for Technology portfolio including status, risk, dependencies, and financials.
- Apply and continuously improve intake, stage gating, and readiness criteria aligned to AMIRI’s Project Delivery Stages.
Deliver Governance and Execution
- Establish and operationalize PMO delivery standards across Technology, ensuring consistent adoption.
- Ensure consistent execution discipline while enabling appropriate flexibility by initiative type and business context.
- Proactively identify delivery risks, resourcing gaps, and dependency conflicts, escalating and driving resolution in partnership with leadership.
- Hold Project Managers and Business Analysts accountable for milestones, scope, and outcomes.
- Escalate decisively, in partnership with Technology leadership, when delivery health, scope control, or timelines are at risk.
Ownership of High-Level Technology Projects
- Directly lead and delivery high priority, enterprise-level Technology initiatives.
- Own planning, execution, stakeholder management, and delivery for complex cross functional projects.
- Serve as the accountable delivery lead for initiatives that require senior oversight, strong governance, and executive communication.
- Coordinate across Infrastructure, Business Applications, Data, Digital, and external partners to ensure aligned execution.
- Ensure projects meet scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
Financial Management and Controls
- Manage Technology Capex tracking and forecasting under the direction of the Global VP, Technology.
- Ensure accurate project and portfolio level budget tracking and variance analysis.
- Support business case development including cost estimates, benefits, and ROI.
- Monitor vendor spending and contract burn against approved funding.
Team Leadership and Development
- Provide day to day leadership, direction, and prioritization for two contract resources
- Set clear expectations and performance standards.
- Coach team members on stakeholder management, requirements quality, and execution rigor.
- Identify skill gaps and recommend process, tooling, or capability improvements.
Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
- Act as a primary delivery partner for Technology leadership and senior business stakeholders.
- Lead portfolio and program level reporting with clear, executive ready communication.
- Drive transparency, accountability, and informed decision making.
- Push back when priorities, capacity, or readiness are misaligned.
- Operate effectively within a luxury fashion environment defined by fixed seasonal. calendars, runway milestones, wholesale commitments, and retail trading cycles.
- Plan and deliver initiatives against immovable deadlines where timing, quality, and brand impact are critical.
- Balance speed and execution rigor while respecting creative workflows and brand-led decision making.
- Anticipate and manage cross-functional dependencies across Design, Product Development, Merchandising, Retail, E-Commerce, Finance, and Operations.
Change Management
- Own change impact, business readiness, and adoption outcomes, not just delivery milestones.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on trade-offs, sequencing, and delivery risk.
- Proactively surface risks, constraints, and decisions required to maintain momentum and alignment.
- Ensure delivered initiatives translate into measurable business outcomes and operational improvements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Ability Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Technology Project or Program Management.
- 3+ years in a PMO leadership or portfolio management role.
- Demonstrated experience leading large scale, cross functional Technology initiatives.
- Proven ability to manage Technology Capex and Opex budgets.
- Experience across ERP, POS, E Commerce, Data, and Infrastructure initiatives.
- Strong execution discipline with the confidence to challenge assumptions.
- Ability to influence across Technology and business without formal authority.
- Experience in retail, fashion, or consumer brands
- Familiarity with NetSuite, Shopify, POS platforms, PLM, or data analytics ecosystems
- Experience operating in a global environment with US and EU stakeholders