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About the Role
The Head of Information Technology leads IT support, application development, and infrastructure operations for Peter Millar’s UK region. This role operates at both strategic and operational levels, managing a team, aligning UK technology with global standards, and contributing to global initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead all IT support, application development, and infrastructure activities for the UK.
- Run the UK IT function day-to-day while contributing to global projects and workstreams led by the US teams.
- Protect the team’s time and focus by filtering requests and keeping the team focused on the most critical IT/technology initiatives.
- Partner with US teams to adopt and follow established enterprise frameworks, standards, and governance.
- Directly manage, mentor, and motivate a small but growing team, reprioritizing workloads as needs shift.
- Serve as a hands-on contributor, stepping in for support activities and project work when the workload requires it.
- Act as gatekeeper for incoming work—triaging, prioritizing, and pushing back on out-of-scope requests.
- Bridge the UK business and US teams, translating global standards into local execution.
- Recommend business process improvements within established enterprise standards.
- Own project delivery within committed schedule and quality, consistent with US-defined frameworks.
- Manage vendor and service-provider relationships supporting UK systems.
Requirements
- Proven track record of team and individual performance assessments and improvement plans.
- Ability to set boundaries and protect team focus, pushing back diplomatically on non-IT requests.
- Ability to flex between regional leadership and individual contribution on global projects.
- Ability to collaborate across time zones with US-based teams to understand, adopt, and adhere to global standards and frameworks.
- Broad, hands-on knowledge across IT support, enterprise applications, and infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of enterprise/B2B integration and how core business systems connect.
- Understanding of ERP, EDI, ESB and supply chain systems in a wholesale/retail/distribution setting.
- Excellent communication skills across regions and levels.
- Willingness to wear multiple hats in a lean, entrepreneurial environment.
- Strong leadership, decision-making, and influencing skills.
- Solid experience in an IT management or leadership role, ideally leading a small or cross-functional team.
- Experience in a global/multi-site organization, partnering with teams in other regions (US a plus).
- Experience with SQL Server or other RDBMS, and with ERP, EDI, and supply chain systems (apparel a plus).
- Experience managing IT vendors; relevant IT certifications desirable.
Skills
- IT support
- Application development
- Infrastructure operations
- Team management
- Strategic planning
- Operational management
- Global standards alignment
- Project management
- Vendor management
- SQL Server
- RDBMS
- ERP
- EDI
- Supply chain systems
- Enterprise/B2B integration
- Leadership
- Decision making
- Influencing
- Communication
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Management
- Leadership
About the Company
- Richemont is one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, with various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches, and high-end accessories.
- Each Maison embodies a tradition of style, quality, and craftsmanship.
- Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of its Houses.
- The company is committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values of its Houses through permanent creativity.