Manager, Digital Business Partner

**Strategic Aspiration**

In Go-To
- Market Transformation (GTMT) we drive a brand-led, enterprise-supported digital transformation to enable agility, profitable growth for various retail models, bringing VF brands closer to the market and consumers. We reimagine the product creation by modernizing and accelerating design and development processes to enable 3D design visualization.

**Role & Responsibilities**:
Position Definition (Key Purpose of the Position):
Managing a regional team, you will develop your team to engage global stakeholders and technologists to achieve set goals by providing a full range of digital assets creation services to global brands. Representing Digital Product Creation (DPC) team as the trusted advisor. As a Digital Business Partner, you act as a mediator between the product design and the technical teams, having a deep understanding of needs from both sides, and translating needs into design requirements where physical artifacts, such as new product features and / or processes, leading technical teams to design and develop. Iterating and making improvements to existing plans by incorporating feedback from global stakeholders and ensuring environmental conditions comply with organization’s safety standards, local and national regulatory agencies.

Develops trusted business relationships based on giving full transparency in terms of business enablement opportunities, roadmap, cost performance for that business, and is fully responsible for all Digital needs relevant for that business. In this role, you will work closely with the Director to develop processes to produce innovative and aesthetic digital products from visualization to other digital output. This will require you to think both creatively and critically and build consensus with internal clients and staff on proposed design solutions.

Elevate brands with the capabilities to better understand, value and take advantage of digital technology. Work with leading brands and emerging technology to create value and achieve consumer relevance at scale. Ultimately aiming to use digital technology as a key enabler to drive brand engagement. You will need to have a proven track record of creating engaging contents, a keen eye for design and a strong sense of visual storytelling. This should be supported by a human-centered creative and design-thinking approach to solving problems.

As a working leader, you will need to be able to estimate your work, and the work of your team, accurately and with confidence. You will evaluate team performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and manage that improvement through to realization.

**Key Result Areas**:
Portfolio and performance management
- Represent the function as part of DPC team
- Oversee all aspects of digital production from the initial phase to the time it’s published.
- Work closely with designers and 3D specialist to create 3D models with a high degree of precision using computer-aided engineering equipment
- Working with a team of modeling specialists to resolve design details or discrepancies or to prepare design solutions that encompasses drawings of unusual or complex designs thereby ensuring deliverables are achieved within expected project timeline and any impact on workflow will be monitored closely to minimise any disruptions.
- Providing creative input while driving team to finish quality content quickly and efficiently.
- Develop an eye for realistic digital material and shade of the highest quality to use in product creation of virtual files.
- Responsible for portfolio and performance management for all Digital activities in scope of that business
- Together with HoD responsible for all Digital needs of operations in DPC
- Lead and manage operational projects to support the growth and expansion of digital assets creation.
- Establish, own projects key performance metrics and accountable for short and long term targets of DPC.
- Owns the Demand & Supply Management of digital assets Creation.
- Partner with the team in identifying continuous improvement, integrated operations and process optimization opportunities.
- Supporting the formulation of innovative digital insights and support future project designs.

Stakeholders’ Management
- Take lead to plan, connect, and follow up with relevant internal & external stakeholders to ensure seamless project implementation.
- Drive implementation of capabilities focused on expanding the digital network, improving brand ‘experiences and building connections into ‘Make & Sell’ platforms.
- Develop the new digital operating model in partnership with all stakeholders which would be the SOP.
- Establish strong partnership with cross functional teams to ensure continuous collaboration.
- Partner with internal stakeholders in identifying continuous improvement, integrated operations and process optimization opportunities.
- Champions strong multicultural awareness across regional teams to appropriately deliver di