Senior Manager, Digital Customer Platforms

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Job Description
A client is currently seeking a highly skilled Sr. Manager, Digital Customer Platforms to join the IT leadership team to help lead the development and evolution of our digital customer platform to enable a bespoke and exclusive customer journey.

Reporting directly to the Chief Information Office, the Sr. Manager, Digital Customer Platforms will lead the delivery of a seamless, sustainable, and innovative digital platform that engages the customer and supports their journey from prospect to astronaut, driving trust and brand affinity.

This individual's responsibilities will include but not limited to; planning, secure development, integrations, testing and support of the digital customer platform for the enterprise.

With responsibility for the end-to-end solution, the ideal candidate will have a strong background in developing digital business to consumer solutions for a luxury brand(s).

The platform will require multiple integrations, including SalesForce, credit card/bank payment processing systems, and content/document management systems.

This role will collaborate closely with our Customer Experience and Sales teams as well as our third-party design and development agencies, requiring strong communication, interpersonal, and project management skills.
Responsibilities
• Provide strategic direction and leadership to a development and support team consisting of individual contributors, in-house and outsourced teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meet functional and security requirements.
• Maintain robust development processes and ensure that requirements are defined, tracked and communicated in a consistent and effective manner, incorporating effective release, change and risk management controls.
• Build and manage relationships with senior leaders within the IT organization and the business/ functional teams.
• Create IT and business cross-functional teams optimized for successful delivery of programs.
• Build and execute platform roadmaps to support corporate strategy and goals/timelines.
• Manage vendor relationships and third-party service providers, ensuring adherence to SLAs and contractual agreements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to optimize processes, enhance efficiency, and deliver maximum value to the organization.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies, providing recommendations and insights for future initiatives.
• Work with Customer Service, Information Security, and Infrastructure & Operations teams to ensure seamless, rapid response and resolution of platform related service support cases.
• Identify gaps & issues in technical requirements, processes, or projects, and actively address in collaboration with the business solutions and project delivery teams.
• Recognize and identify potential areas where existing policies and procedures require change, or where new ones need to be developed.
• Manage the Digital Customer Experience budget and provide input on the administration of related operating and project related budgets.
• Author reports, documents, and present analyses, project status, risks and issues, as well as provide remediation plans.

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Skills and Requirements
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum eight (8) of Software and Application Development experience in a leadership role with a proven track record of developing enterprise grade web-based applications.
• Five (5) or more years of work within complex manufacturing and high-technology business processes and deep understanding of CRM business flows.
• Strong understanding of secure, web-based application architecture and infrastructure.
• Proven experience with software development project methodologies (SDLC, Agile, PMP, Scrum).
• Proven experience in complex digital customer experience platforms with SalesForce integrations, preferably with luxury consumer brands.
• Proven experience in Microsoft Cloud services and related cloud technologies.

• Strong interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to make effective decisions while working through complex issues.
• Must be able to utilize and effectively communicate functional and technical components of an initiative to applicable parties both verbally and through documentation.
• Able to define activity roadmaps considering limited and scarce resources.
• Experience recognizing and implementing improved efficiencies and productivity.
• Able to mediate issues between users, team members or other personnel and subordinates.
• Strong mentorship abilities and approach for direct and indirect reports.
• Possessing a proactive, agile and strategic mindset is a must.

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