CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS

• Proven Business Growth Step-Change: Demonstrated history of bringing in more and more consumers while out-smarting competition. Demonstrated history of building or step-changing e-commerce business. Proven change agent. Strong negotiation skills with experience developing contracts and partnerships with external agencies. Entrepreneurial mindset with outstanding financial and business acumen and experience with modeling, planning, and budgeting. Demonstrated strong business judgment and decision-making skills; ability to identify, prioritize, and articulate highest impact initiatives.

• Exceptional Leader: One who builds, inspires, and coaches teams with a passion for the business, while forging close working relationships with others throughout the organization. This individual will work to foster a culture of trust, accountability and results while elevating capabilities. This role requires a hands-on, team-oriented executive who has broad-based credibility and is capable of consistently motivating people to act.

• Results-Oriented: Performance-driven and able to provide measurable results. The successful candidate will be resourceful, action-oriented, as well as a flexible and decisive leader who establishes clarity in the midst of distractions to produce results in a timely fashion. They will provide clear direction and establish aggressive and achievable goals and will actively lead cross-functional teams to ensure their success. The ability to be resilient in the face of challenges and deliver to higher standards while upholding values which commands respect from others.

• Creative Marketer: Proven history of breaking through the clutter to drive brand heat and digital engagement. Lives in and is an influencer in the digital world. Has a consumer min-set and brand understanding that lets them develop and engage with consumer and culture. Ability to articulate and promote brand vision.

• Critical Thinker: Combines analytical and creative horsepower to simplify and break down complex situations into core of issues with easy to understand action items. This individual must be intellectually sharp and use critical thinking to make or influence decisions while demonstrating outstanding business judgement. They will be comfortable creating the new and the different and have a ravenous appetite to learn more and experiment in a disciplined way.

• Strategic Agility: This individual must be intellectually sharp and clearly capable of thinking on his/her feet while demonstrating outstanding business judgment. The Chief Information Security Officer will possess the analytical skills to improve overall productivity and elevate the organization's e-commerce efforts to a point of differentiation in the marketplace. This person must not only embrace change but embrace change and draw on resilience to alter their road map along the way based on marketplace and feedback.

• Global / External Mindset: This individual will provide a worldly perspective of macro and industry influences to assist in guiding the organization in new directions. They will provide perspective coming in from outside the organization to aid in the collective leadership team’s understanding and acceptance of trends, insights, changing business perspective and management strategies. This keen perspective should be presented with patience and guidance rather than authoritative. Values diversity and works well with different interpersonal styles.