About the Company:
Founded in 2014, Rhone is clothing made for the pursuit of progress. Engineered for an active lifestyle, Rhone fills the void between big box retailers and high-end yoga brands, delivering best in class products specifically for men. Currently, Rhone has seven retail stores with locations in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida and California. Rhone is also sold in all Equinox locations, at Nordstrom, Dillard’s, Peloton Studios and more than 350 gyms and specialty stores across the country. Rhone is also a proud partner of Stitch Fix.
About the Role:
The Vice President of Enterprise Systems is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Rhone’s enterprise application systems, including design, development, implementation, support, and maintenance. The position engages with stakeholders to understand their needs and align their use of their applications within the capacity and integrity of the technology infrastructure. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled and visionary leader with proven record of people development and earned followership within a high change environment.
What you’ll do:
Lead a team managing all aspects of application development and delivery across multiple functions, business units and business lines.
Effectively initiate, plan, schedule, control, and bring to closure multiple high priority projects.
Work closely with key stakeholders to optimize and prioritize the capabilities of the application suite with business requirements.
Promotes Knowledge Management best practices and champions improvement initiatives. Attend and actively contribute to the Steering Committee.
Manage & provide guidance in analyzing problems for identifying the root cause, prioritization, andfication. Own communication to business on problem management progress.
Build IT infrastructure and scale enterprise systems to match our growing business needs.
Ensure systems and processes are consistent across all locations, creating significant efficiency.
Ensure that all application development initiatives are well managed and delivered to meet expectations on functionality, timeliness, and cost.
Manage application vendor relationships and negotiate contracts to procure resources and technology solutions to meet the company’s strategic objectives.
Overall responsibility for the establishment of the annual budget and execution against key objectives.
Scale and leverage enterprise systems to automate processes using our ERP system NetSuite.
What We Look For:
10+ years of experience
Experience with a cloud-based ERP deployment (Net Suite preferred) and project methodologies
Strong business acumen, with experience driving significant organizational, process and systems improvements in a Master Data Management environment
Analytical thinker with the ability to translate complex business needs into feasible technical solutions
Ability to think strategically and broadly about the business while also fully understanding the details, workflows, systems, and near-term issues
Maintain a high level of organization, commitment to follow through, enthusiasm and motivation
Experience managing teams both locally and remotely, including managing people managers
Ability to build alignment cross-functionally and influence up to senior leadership
Deep understanding of e-commerce and retail
Experience with supply chain, inventory management and product lifecycle management
Forever Forward mentality: Aptitude to learn quickly and adapt to changing business processes, technologies, and environments
What you’ll get:
Competitive Compensation
401k Incentive Savings Plan
Health, Dental, Vision, and other Ancillary Benefits
Open PTO Policy
Generous employee discount and semi-annual gift card allotments
Reports to: COO/CFO
Location: Stamford, CT (Hybrid)