VP, IT Platforms & Application Solutions

The JD Sports North America Application Solutions Group powers the expansion of JDs retail operations through building and delivering industry-leading connected customer experiences across all customer touchpoints. The VP IT Platforms & Application Solutions leads the group that drives innovation within the JD Finish Lines corporate systems. Most importantly this role is responsible for growing performance and talent within the team to successfully execute against our strategic plan.

This leader will effectively exhibit JD Finish Lines core values of Customer People Winning Community and Financial Responsibility in everything they do by performing the following main duties:

• Leads Engineering teams with responsibilities including hiring team development and performance management

• Works with senior leadership to align on organizational outcomes that can be leveraged to develop clear goals and success metrics in partnership between stakeholders

• Creates and cultivates cross-functional relationships with departments across the company including Digital Operations Retail Operations Marketing Merchandising Brand Creative Legal and Human Resources to understand needs and rally organizational support for initiatives

• Establishes the process to facilitate opportunity generation and intake evaluation and prioritization that results in a refined communication of strategy and roadmaps across the organization

• Works with leaders across all IT functions to identify optimal work sequencing to managing capacity dependencies and roadblocks for cross-functional initiatives

• Establishes and maintains strong relationships with key vendor partners to ensure successful integrations including involvement in regular business reviews and contract negotiations

• Leverages views of enterprise data to understand strategic opportunities and other insights to guide & feature development and delivery

• Assists in organizing and running regular strategic workshops with other leaders and business partners

• Monitors emerging trends and practices across engineering and technology spaces to identify assess and implement new opportunities

• Additional duties and projects as required.

Required Education and/or Experience

Bachelors Degree in business or computer-related field from a four-year college or university and 10 - 12 years of experience overseeing the development implementation and performance of corporate systems or equivalent combination of education and experience. Internal JD Finish Line experience strongly preferred.

Demonstrated success in a startup or change-management environment. Demonstrated success managing project budgets timelines and resources. Experience working within an Agile development environment.

Required Computer and/or Technical Skills

Should have fluent knowledge and abilities with G Suite toolset or Microsoft equivalents. Strong appreciation for Cloud based (and SaaS) applications. Business level understanding of Web technologies such as HTML JavaScript and XML SOAP/REST/WEB services.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sit for more than 6 hours per shift

• Use hands to finger handle and feel

• Reach with hands and arms

• Talk and/or hear

• Stand for up to 4 hours at a time periodically

• Walk or move from one location to another

• Occasionally may need to climb balance stoop kneel or crouch

• Lift and/or move up to 10 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally

• Punctuality and regular attendance consistent with the companys policies are required for the position.

• 10% travel needed.

• Average workweek is 40-50 hours which can vary depending on business need.

This job description is not intended to cover all aspects duties and/or responsibilities required of employees. Employees may be asked to perform additional duties outside of normal job scope on a temporary or permanent basis per company policy. The company reserves the right to modify this job description with or without notice.

EEO Statement:

The Finish Line Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to complying with all federal state and local EEO laws. The Finish Line Inc. prohibits discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on race or color religion or creed national origin alienage or citizenship status marital status sex pregnancy status age military status disability or any other characteristic or class protected by law. The Finish Line Inc. provides reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable laws including for disabilities pregnancy and religious practices.

Need accessibility assistance to apply
Applicants who require accessibility assistance to submit an employment application can either call Finish Line at or email us at A member of our Talent Acquisition team will respond as soon as reasonably possible. (This email address and phone number is only for individuals seeking accommodation when applying for a job.)