Manager, Global Retail Technology Enablement

OVERVIEW

The Manager, Global Retail Technology Enablement plays a key role in shaping the future of ALO’s in-store technology ecosystem and omnichannel capabilities. Defining strategic vision and leading execution, this individual identifies opportunities to modernize POS, RFID, and omnichannel systems to enhance customer experience, improve inventory visibility, and drive productivity and scalable growth across markets. In parallel, this role ensures that operational policies and procedures evolve in alignment with system enhancements and platform changes — creating clear, consistent standards that enable seamless store execution globally.

By partnering cross-functionally with Digital, Retail Technology, Finance, and International teams, this role ensures that all retail capabilities and technologies— and the governance that supports them — evolve in alignment with enterprise growth priorities. Success in this role is measured through roadmap execution, platform adoption, improved omnichannel performance, inventory accuracy, system optimization, and scalable operational standards that support global consistency.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Global Retail Technology Roadmap

• Develop and maintain a rolling strategic roadmap for global retail technologies
• Identify capability gaps across store systems and define future-state solutions to support scalability, international expansion, real-time inventory visibility, and evolving customer behaviors.
• Partner with Digital and eCommerce teams to strengthen end-to-end omnichannel journeys, including BOPIS, ship-from-store, and returns optimization.
• Evaluate new and emerging retail technologies and industry best practices to inform platform evolution and innovation strategy.
• Support long-term infrastructure planning for new store concepts and global expansion.

Policy, Governance & Operational Standards

• Develop and evolve policies and procedures that support global retail technologies, ensuring alignment between technology functionality and store execution.
• Establish governance frameworks for system enhancements and process changes to ensure global consistency while allowing for localized adaptations.
• Translate system updates and platform enhancements into clear operational standards, documentation, and field-facing communications.
• Partner with Retail Operations and Field Leadership to ensure policies are actionable, scalable, and supportive of efficiency and inventory accuracy.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution

• Serve as a key business partner to Retail Technology and Engineering teams, translating operational needs across all retail technologies into structured business requirements.
• Develop business cases and ROI analyses to support capital prioritization and technology investment decisions.
• Lead cross-functional alignment sessions to define scope, sequencing, testing, and global rollout strategy.
• Partner with International teams to balance global platform consistency with localized market needs.

Performance & Continuous Improvement

• Define KPIs and success metrics and analyze performance data to identify strategic improvement opportunities across customer experience, conversion, labor productivity, and inventory accuracy.
• Identify systemic friction points and drive structured enhancements to improve platform reliability, usability, and adoption.
• Ensure structured change management and clear communication of system and policy updates to field teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 4–7+ years of experience in HQ retail operations and/or experience in retail leadership role focused on operations.
• Experience contributing to technology roadmaps or large-scale system implementations.
• Strong working knowledge of POS systems, RFID technology, inventory management platforms, and omnichannel fulfillment models.
• Experience developing retail policies and operational standards.
• Proven ability to translate operational needs into structured business requirements.
• Strong analytical capabilities with comfort leveraging data to inform strategy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience building executive-ready materials.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint).
• Ability to travel to stores as needed.

The base salary range for this position is $120,000-$140,000 per year, which represents the current range for the base salary for this exempt position. Please note that actual salaries will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. As such, on occasion and when applicable, there is the possibility that the final, agreed-upon base salary may be outside of the upper end of the range. Please also note the range listed is just one component of the company’s total rewards package for exempt employees. Other rewards may include long term incentives, a PTO policy, and many other progressive benefits.

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