Chief Information Security Officer jobs in New Jersey

Company Overview:

Party City Holdco Inc. (PCHI) is a global leader in the celebrations industry, with its offerings spanning more than 70 countries around the world. PCHI is also the largest vertically integrated designer, manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of party goods in North America.

PCHI is headquartered in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. with additional locations throughout the Americas and Asia.

 Job Overview:

Reporting to CFO, the CIO will be responsible for Party City's technology strategy
and vision. This position requires the ability to work cross-functionally with decision-makers across the
organization to identify, recommend, develop, and support effective and efficient technology
solutions. The ideal candidate is deeply experienced in implementing digital and enterprise technology strategies at scale and can recruit and manage a high-performing technology team.
 

 Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Work with business leaders and technology teams to establish near and long-term technology vision,
  objectives, and plan to support Party City's leading omni-channel experience to meet customer growth and retention as well as company margin and revenue objectives.
• Lead strategy and development for all Party City technology systems including: e-commerce platform, site experience, merchandising, marketing technology, POS, wholesale technology, fulfillment software, CRM Software, connected devices, ERP to support functions like inventory & SKU management, order management, finance & accounting, data warehouse infrastructure, and corporate IT.
• Evaluate technology environment for on-going opportunities to enhance customer experience, controls, security and data privacy, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with marketing to build a digital marketing technology strategy for owned, earned, and paid channels (e.g., web, email, affiliate, display, and search). 
• Collaborate with Merchandising and Planning to execute all merchandising strategies with improved processes and tools. Additionally, ensure online merchandising is supported by best in class features in areas of navigation, internal search, personalization and check out.
• Lead the continued development of a world class technology organization and platform utilizing the right mix of both building new engineering concepts as well as implementing best-in-class enterprise systems accounting for technical feasibility, cost and timelines.
• Drive strong inter-team collaboration between technology and all other departments. Be a positive force in moving ideas from strategy to execution. Be the conduit to activate the teams and people to get things built fast and well. 
• Coach direct reports through professional development plans cultivating leaders. Set clear, data-driven goals to define success for each individual and team. 
• Instill a strong culture of excellence and development best practices throughout technology for development and deployment, testing, code quality, security, architecture review, internal control and
  strategic thinking.