Chalhoub Group
Job Description:
- You will be a Rockstar in building relationships, managing multiple stakeholders and comfortable communicating effectively at all levels of the organisation. You must be able to demonstrate high emotional intelligence plus excellent influencing skills as these will support the ability to deeply understand the what and why of the business/vertical needs before translating this into brand/vertical level roadmaps. The role will work hand in hand work with the relative vertical President, Group Technology and Data teams for fast efficient business focused solutions that are customer and growth centric plus smooth adoption of any business value initiatives.
- The Technology Business Partner will assume budget responsibility that will span monitoring vertical level Technology spend and must be comfortable with autonomy, focusing always on co-creation and collaboration by getting the right people in the room for a win-win solutions that will drive the success of the overall Vertical and Group eCommerce objectives.
Job Responsibilities:
- Vertical level strategic road mapping (creation) by filtering and prioritising tech initiatives
- Liaise with the Head of Digital Technology and the Head of Retail & Supply Chain Technology to identify potential solutions to meet business needs and to translate business requirements into functional and technical requirements
- Own and manage the strategic vertical Tech communication with key business stakeholders
- Liaise with the Group Tech team to drive identification, verification and documentation of functional and technical requirements for effective solutions
- Capabilities should be built depending on business needs (i.e. Bottom Up approach vs. Group Tech Top Down approach)
- Oversee the development of high-level feasibility studies of potential solutions and tracking proposals across the demand lifecycle
- Filter and pre-validate demand based on the information provided by the business
- Prioritize demand within the vertical portfolio in alignment with President
- Lead effort to analyze and research new and existing products, technology innovations, process improvements that will bring value to
- Chalhoub’s Retail business systems
- Analyze business strategies and determine the impact and implications for Tech, and ensure alignment of the Tech portfolio with the business strategies
- Act as the single point of contact for all strategic Tech demand from the business and ‘be the partner’ of the commercial vertical in ensuring delivery by Tech
- Contribute to the wider Tech strategy of the group, working as the commercial business partner to understand needs and ensure that the business has a voice in the evolution of the group’s Tech strategy
- Participate and lead workshops with the business units to define requirements
Qualification & Experience:
- Effective communicator
- University Degree at level BA in any relevant field/ MBA is a plus
- Strong relationship building and collaboration with senior stakeholders
- Strategic focus and solid project planning
- Entrepreneurial and innovation approach to driving business
- Strong command skills
- Extensive experience within a similar position
- Holistic strategic thinker
- Ability to roadmap and the deliver ROI
- Strong business commercial acumen
Job Details:
Company: Chalhoub Group
Vacancy Type: Full-time
Job Functions: Information Technology
Job Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Application Deadline: N/A
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