lululemon

Who we are

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

About this team

The Supply Chain Solution team supports lululemon’s commitment to elevate our guests experience through the strategic delivery of reliable and sustainable technical solutions from merchandise planning, allocation to logistics and distribution.

A day in the life:

By partnering closely with the business and project leads you help manage project scope and ensure stakeholder expectations are managed and met. You are experienced in building production systems in cloud-native and hybrid environments where “automation” and “Infrastructure as Code” are guiding principles that enable you to guide teams and partners toward best practices that allow progress to be made quickly and sustainably.Responsible for aligning delivery plan with organization and managing the narrative of the delivery plan as the team is executing with value and guest impact as guiding principles.  

Managing team members with different skill sets from your own and you can communicate expectations clearly to all team members. In addition to strong management skills, you act as a leader for the technical roadmap for your team and you communicate timeline, scope and risks to partners and stakeholders, and lead the delivery of major initiatives on clear timelines. You identify areas of strategic technical debt, do the cost/benefit analysis for resolving this debt and communicate suggested timelines for prioritizing this to the management team.

Operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the capabilities supported by your teams. You will be a key player in driving strategic planning, project execution, development of technology talent, and the ongoing operation and improvement of the capabilities. 

·       Lead a team of Engineers and Analysts across multiple work streams simultaneously. 

·       Guide teams toward architecture, design and code and participate in architecture, design and code reviews

·       Adjust process and timeline to ensure that high quality deliverables are produced within budget

·       Ensure your team produces software that is HA, monitorable and maintainable

·       Demonstrates thought leadership and mentors engineers to leverage technology best practices around architecture and design

·       Provide technical direction and ensure the right skills are being used to solve the right problems across your team

·       Monitor performance of information technology systems to determine cost and productivity levels, and to make recommendations for improving the IT infrastructure

·       Identify and remove roadblocks to success

 Qualifications:

·       Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems or Business Administration

·       5+ years of experience in senior engineering and 2+ years’ experience as a people manager

·       Strong Software Development background, preferably leveraging Agile methodology

·       Comfortable working in complex and large-scale production environments

·       Ability to manage project budgets including capital and expense costs 

·       Team player with excellent communication skills

·       Experience with Retail Supply Chain software implementation 

·       Experience with Vendor management for delivery and operations

Must haves:

·       Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.

·       Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.

·       Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.

·       Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.

·       Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.

·       Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.

NOTE: Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.