Arne Tjalma

Global Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer / Transformation Officer

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

Senior IT executive with broad knowledge of IT and business processes, continue aligning IT and business to ensure added value and driving results. Translating business strategy into IT architecture and define IT roadmap to realize the business strategy. Building the IT organization to realize the roadmap with clear alignment with the business stakeholders. Strong track record in realizing the IT roadmap by implementing and building state of the art IT solutions: - Ecom and omni-channel platforms (IBM Commerce, own build solutions, ..) - Digital transformation & Innovation - Store of the Future (endless Isle, …) - Digital Showroom - Several apps - CRM (SalesForce, Hybris) - Retail plattforms (POS, customer counters, planning) (GK, Oracle retail, Storeforce, ..) - ERP systems (SAP FMS, JDE, ..) - BI/Analytics roadmap (Oracle exalytics, HANA, Hadoop) - PLM/PIM/MDM (Centric, Gerber, Informatica 360) Sparring partner on C level with industry peers and key executives of suppliers in defining product roadmap and future developments (example SAP FMS, Centric PLM, …). Continue work on the IT organization structure, to drive excellence, results and innovation. Transforming from classical application and development capabilities focused IT organization into an agile devops way of working. All within a corporate organization where compliance as SOX and GDPR and security are key.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at KARL LAGERFELD
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • Owner at ATBeheer & Advies
    Sep 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

  • Global Chief Information Officer/Global Board Member at Triumph International AG at Triumph International
    Oct 2020 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • IT Transformation Lead (interim) at KARL LAGERFELD
    Dec 2019 - Oct 2020 · 11 mos

    Design & Execute transformation program to strengthen the Karl Lagerfeld organisation for further growth and better support the digital channels. Program consists out of following main pillars: - Strengthen the IT foundation - Mature ERP - Data warehouse & Analytics - Enable digital (own e-commerce & market places like farfetch, Zalando, About You, ...) - Implement missing capabilities

  • IT lead (interim) at McGregor New York
    Nov 2019 - Oct 2020 · 1 yr

    Defining and implementing IT roadmap for re-launch of the McGregor brand. Key elements: - ERP - Webshop - Retail Merchandising - POS - Partner Integration (EDI, API, other portals)