Michael Kors is always interested in hearing from talented, globally-minded individuals with a passion for fashion.
If you enjoy working in a creative, fast-paced environment, then we would love to hear from you!
Michael Kors is looking for a Vice President, E-Commerce to lead the creation and execution of the brand’s digital transformation and engage and excite our customers. This role will own the ecommerce P&L and will define our digital customer experience site merchandising, user experience, strategy and product road map. We are looking for someone with a passion for retail and the ability to drive sales in a fast-paced environment. This position will be a part of Michael Kors’ e-commerce team and present a great opportunity to develop and grow multi-channel sales on a global level.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the business and own and optimize the P&L.
- Develop cutting edge digital roadmaps and team to execute a best-in-class consumer experience across all digital commerce touch points; .com, mobile and app.
- Lead site merchandising, site production, product and operations.
- Align technology strategy with marketing and digital initiatives to grow online and mobile capabilities.
- Curate and manage the pipeline of innovative ideas, owning the operational rhythm to expose concepts to the senior leadership team.
- Monitor performance and partner with buying team to develop financial strategies to achieve plans both in-season & pre-season
- Work with cross functional, cross channel teams to drive prioritized initiatives from strategy creation through proof of concept phases. Participate in pilot, rollouts and implementations on an as needed basis.
- Drive development across multiple teams, business units and phases, aligning business opportunities with the appropriate, cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house and outsourced development.
- Works closely with and manages strategic vendor partner relationships.
- Create a dynamic, high-performance culture and recruit, retain and grow talent.
- Ensure brand consistency and presence on all digital products from planning to design/build/test to successful launch.
- Develop superior user-focused digital products to drive business growth.
- Understand and map the current state of business processes supporting the customer life cycle.
- Build and develop product design and leadership talent that has the business acumen and technical capability to deliver world class products, differentiated customer experiences, strategic partnerships, and sustainable ecosystems.
- Provide leadership through setting the strategy, establishing outcome-driven frameworks, aligning priorities and managing operating mechanisms that drive a highly effective and efficient process design and development organization.
- Continuously create and evolve the go-to-market plans, development of cross-functional partnerships to create a rigorous focus on process efficiency, business effectiveness, and product innovation.
Requirements:
- 15+ years’ experience in direct or e-commerce environment
- Experience running product teams, preferably React/ATC architecture
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree
- Entrepreneurial, out-of-the-box thinker who is intellectually curious with a strong work ethic.
- Experience managing UX/Digital Creative functions
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate complicated concepts and recommended courses of action to engage diverse audiences and influence senior executives.
- Ability to think strategically, drive for results, build a high performance organization, continuously drive innovation and inspire the organization to achieve and exceed its objectives
- Deep understanding of consumer audience segments.
- Strong project management skills and ability to complete projects on time
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to translate analytic data into strategic ideas
- Must be able to multi-task, be flexible and perform in a fast-paced environment
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer M/D/F/V