A career in Maison Valentino is your chance to grow in a reality where business and creativity meet and thrive in an inclusive, and open-minded community.

Maison Valentino believes in a colleague-centric approach, where our contribution and behaviors as individuals are the secret of our success as a community. Each Valentino colleague is crucial to guarantee that every need in Valentino is met with mastery, creativity, uniqueness, and care.

The IT Business Applications, Operations & Logistics Director owns the retail and wholesale backend application landscape at Valentino — Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations, Sales, RFID and BW. The role leads a large, multidisciplinary team and a portfolio of business-critical SAP-centred programs, ensuring business continuity today while driving the transformation of the landscape for tomorrow.

Key responsibilities

1. Portfolio & program delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of a multi-project portfolio, from business requirements to stable operations.
• Translate business priorities into clear roadmaps, balancing transformation with business-as-usual.
• Run strong governance on scope, budget, resources, risks and cross-project dependencies.
• Provide transparent status reporting and escalate critical risks and decisions on time.

2. Application landscape & SAP

• Own stability, scalability and evolution of the applications in scope, with SAP at the core.
• Lead SAP migration and implementation programs and the stabilization that follows (S/4HANA, RISE).
• Govern corrective and evolutionary demand against architecture consistency and capacity.
• Ensure end-to-end integration across ERP, WMS, 3PL, planning, PLM, RFID and BW.

3. Business partnership & process

• Act as the technology partner of Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations and Sales leadership.
• Bring process expertise to redesign and simplify end-to-end flows, not only systems.
• Ensure consistent processes and solutions across channels (retail, wholesale) and geographies.

4. Vendor & service management

• Govern system integrators, technology partners and AMS providers on delivery, quality and SLAs.
• Contribute to contracts and Statements of Work together with Procurement.
• Build demanding partnerships with clear accountability for business outcomes.

5. People leadership

• Lead and grow a large multidisciplinary organization of domain leads, managers and project managers.
• Set clear ownership and allocate resources across programs, projects and operations.
• Reduce key-person dependencies and build succession and resilience.
• Foster a culture of accountability, execution and continuous improvement.

Candidate profile

Must-have

• 15+ years in IT, with significant time in senior business applications leadership in complex, international organizations.
• Proven track record leading large, multidisciplinary teams, including managers and domain leads.
• Deep SAP experience, with at least one large migration or implementation program delivered end to end (ideally S/4HANA).
• Strong process expertise in Supply Chain, Logistics/WMS/3PL, Order Management and Sales (retail and wholesale).
• Outstanding program and portfolio management on concurrent, business-critical initiatives.
• Solid experience governing system integrators, technology partners and AMS.
• Fluent Italian and English.

Nice-to-have

• Fashion, Luxury, Retail or Consumer Goods background.
• Supply Chain Planning (allocation, replenishment) experience.
• Exposure to RFID solutions and SAP BW / operational reporting.
• Warehouse migrations or 3PL network changes in an international context.

Leadership competencies

• Execution: turns strategy into concrete plans, anticipates delivery issues and drives recovery.
• Business and process orientation: understands how the business works beyond the technology.
• Stakeholder influence: credible with senior executives; constructively challenges business, IT and partners.
• Decision-making: prioritizes under constrained resources and owns the outcomes.
• People development: coaches managers and builds internal capabilities.
• Strategic yet hands-on: moves comfortably between vision and operational detail.

What We Offer

Applicable National Collective Labor Agreement (CCNL): Tessile Industria

Category: Director

Benefits: in addition to those provided under the applicable National Collective Labor Agreement and by law, employees are eligible for further benefits and initiatives in accordance with Company policies, including health insurance, smart working arrangements and meal vouchers.

The Valentino ecosystem is home to a wide and extraordinary pool of talents, each colleague contributing with their unique attributes, nurturing a culture of inclusivity and equality. Inspiring sense of belonging, passion and engaging colleagues are the bases of our inclusive and multifaceted world.