Chief Information Officer

1 month ago

York, York City, United Kingdom Pavers Shoes Full time
About Pavers Shoes

Pavers Shoes is a highly profitable and fast-growing family business with a strong balance sheet and a turnover over £200m. We are a leading retailer in the footwear industry, with a rich history spanning over 50 years.

Job Title: Chief Information Officer

We are seeking an experienced Chief Information Officer to join our Senior Leadership Team. As the most senior Information Officer in the business, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining a systems estate that delivers our organisational objectives.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and lead our long-term technical strategy to help deliver our company goals
  • Provide inspirational leadership, support, and guidance to the team, motivating them to hit delivery deadlines and communicating progress in the appropriate senior forums
  • Improving departmental productivity through effective prioritisation, and the use of automation and LLMs
  • Lead the Heads of Departments managing development, infrastructure, data management and support teams
  • Help identify and define business improvement, cost-reduction, and growth opportunities through technical innovation
  • Deliver business-wide technical improvements
  • Ensure C-Suite/board level stakeholder engagement
  • Set cost-conscious budgets, define objectives, monitor workflows, identify, and fill resource gaps, and implement and refine processes as required
  • Establish and monitor key performance metrics
Requirements:
  • Experience working as an IT Director / Head of IT (ideally with a matrix structure) at C-Suite/board level, with a history of delivering significant commercial competitive advantage
  • Experience leading large, multi-team IT functions ideally within an established business who have undertaken a modernisation programme
  • A proven track record of motivating technical teams to deliver outperformance, including the deployment of productivity tools and automation
  • Evidence of delivering business improvement through technical change and innovation
  • Excellent team leadership capabilities and familiarity with the Agile development framework
  • Positive, engaging, inclusive attitude and management style
  • Significant experience working within a Retail and/or family business
  • Possess the ability to influence others and drive their team's development
  • Is gritty, resilient, candid, and operates with honesty, integrity, and a willingness to share learning and knowledge
  • Champions personal and team development
  • Adapts quickly to change and juggles conflicting demands calmly when under pressure
  • Has a passion for footwear, a sense of humour, and a general drive to just get things done
Technical Awareness:
  • Microsoft SQL
  • Javascript
  • VB.NET, C#, Javascript (REACT, Nuxt)
  • Windows Server
  • VMWare
  • IP Networking
  • Linux
  • AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
  • Shopify / eCommerce platforms
  • Snowflake / Data warehousing
  • Tableau
  • Telephony
Benefits/Package:

We offer a generous salary, LTIP, annual profit-related bonus scheme, PMI cover, car allowance, death in service, and more. You will also have access to our RetailTRUST wellbeing support, RetailCURE financial support, and the Pavers Foundation charitable giving scheme.

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