Middle East Technology Manager

Puig SL; Dubai; In loco; AED 320.000 - 460.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Puig is seeking a Middle East Technology Manager to lead all technology activities across the Middle East, ensuring reliable IT operations and alignment with Group standards. This role delivers business value through digital transformation across digital workplace, local infrastructure, ERP, retail POS, e-commerce, CRM and OMS.

As the most senior IT leader in the region, you will partner with local business leaders and global IT teams to adapt solutions to regulatory requirements while

Competenze

• 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure or workplace technology.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure and workplace technologies, including Microsoft environments, networking and end-user technology.
• Experience managing outsourced technology services and external IT partners; project governance experience.
• Strong stakeholder management with the ability to partner with business and technology teams.
• Fluent in English.
• Collaborative mindset across local, regional and global teams.
• ITIL and/or PMP certification.

Mansioni

• Lead the technology agenda for the Middle East, partnering with local business leaders while ensuring alignment with Puig’s global IT strategy, standards and governance.
• Shape and deliver the Middle East IT roadmap, investment plan and project portfolio, balancing local business priorities with global technology transformation.
• Oversee digital workplace and end-user services across offices and retail, ensuring a reliable and effective technology experience for our teams.
• Lead local technology operations, including connectivity, workplace infrastructure, telecommunications and meeting-room technologies, while ensuring operational resilience and business continuity.
• Partner with Puig’s global Cybersecurity and IT teams to protect our technology environment, manage local risks and ensure compliance with Group standards and relevant local requirements.
• Enable our retail and digital ambitions by coordinating technology initiatives across e-commerce, customer relationship management and order management platforms in partnership with global platform teams.
• Oversee ERP and business application evolution, working with business teams, Group IT and external partners to prioritize enhancements, support rollouts and drive adoption.
• Lead technology projects from business need through implementation and stabilization, managing priorities, budgets, timelines, risks and key stakeholders.
• Manage the Middle East IT budget and technology partners, ensuring strong service delivery, effective cost management and alignment with Puig procurement and technology standards.
• Lead and develop local IT employees, contractors and service partners, fostering a collaborative, service-oriented and business-focused technology culture.

Conoscenze

IT infrastructure

Workplace technology

Stakeholder management

English proficiency

Collaboration across teams

ITIL/PMP (cert)

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Descrizione del lavoro

Puig is a major player in the worldwide fashion and beauty industry. We have a wide portfolio of well-known luxury brands across fashion, fragrance, makeup, skincare, and wellness. Founded more than 100 years ago, Puig is a family-owned company with a long-term commitment to our brands and stakeholders.

Who we are

Puig is a home of Love Brands within a family company that furthers wellness, confidence and self-expression while leaving a better world. For more than a century, our entrepreneurial spirit and passion for creativity have made us a challenger in the premium beauty industry.

With 17 Love Brands across Fragrance and Fashion, Makeup and Skincare, we create stories that connect with people’s emotions and are powered by a global team of over 13,000 passionate professionals. With products sold in more than 150 countries and €5,042 million in net revenue in 2025, and guided by strong values and sustainability commitments, Puig continues to grow as a Home of Creativity: an open-minded space where Creators Of All Kinds are empowered to thrive, innovate and express who they are.

The Opportunity

The Middle East Technology Manager is responsible for leading all technology activities across Middle East, ensuring reliable IT operations, alignment with Group technology standards, and delivery of business value through digital transformation initiatives. The role combines operational leadership and strategic technology management across digital workplace, local infrastructure, cybersecurity compliance, ERP support and evolution, retail POS, e-commerce, CRM, OMS. As the most senior IT leader in Middle East, the incumbent acts as the primary interface between local business leadership and Group IT organizations, ensuring that global standards are adopted while adapting solutions to local regulatory and business requirements

We'd love to meet you if you have

• 5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, workplace technology or a similar technology environment.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure and workplace technologies, including Microsoft environments, networking and end-user technology.
• Experience managing outsourced technology services and external IT partners.Proven experience delivering IT infrastructure or technology projects, with a good understanding of project governance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with both business and technology teams.
• Strong communication skills and professional proficiency in English.
• A collaborative, service-oriented mindset and the ability to work effectively across local, regional and global teams
• ITIL and/or project management certification, such as PMP.

We welcome Creators Of All Kinds.

What you'll get to do

• Lead the technology agenda for the Middle East, partnering with local business leaders while ensuring alignment with Puig’s global IT strategy, standards and governance
• Shape and deliver the Middle East IT roadmap, investment plan and project portfolio, balancing local business priorities with global technology transformation.
• Oversee digital workplace and end-user services across offices and retail, ensuring a reliable and effective technology experience for our teams.
• Lead local technology operations, including connectivity, workplace infrastructure, telecommunications and meeting-room technologies, while ensuring operational resilience and business continuity.
• Partner with Puig’s global Cybersecurity and IT teams to protect our technology environment, manage local risks and ensure compliance with Group standards and relevant local requirements.
• Enable our retail and digital ambitions by coordinating technology initiatives across e-commerce, customer relationship management and order management platforms in partnership with global platform teams.
• Oversee ERP and business application evolution, working with business teams, Group IT and external partners to prioritize enhancements, support rollouts and drive adoption.
• Lead technology projects from business need through implementation and stabilization, managing priorities, budgets, timelines, risks and key stakeholders.
• Manage the Middle East IT budget and technology partners, ensuring strong service delivery, effective cost management and alignment with Puig procurement and technology standards.
• Lead and develop local IT employees, contractors and service partners, fostering a collaborative, service-oriented and business-focused technology culture.
  Build strong connections between local teams, regional IT and global technology functions, championing innovation, standardization and continuous improvement.

What you'll love about us

• An entrepreneurial, creative and welcoming work culture
• A range of learning and development opportunities
• An international company with plenty of opportunities to grow
• A competitive compensation & benefits package

Puig is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

At Puig, we are continually looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences to join our team. We believe that creating an inclusive environment in which you feel welcomed, valued, engaged, and empowered strengthens our business and fosters a culture where we are inspired to work hard, challenge ourselves, and be innovative in our thinking. Additionally, we believe that the diversity of our employees makes us a stronger company and better able to serve our customers around the world.