Kontoor Brands, Inc. · 13 hours ago
Director, IT Strategy and Project Management Office
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
15+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Creation and management of key processes that drive project management, strategy execution, and Commercialization of key strategic priorities. Processes include reporting, KPIs, and state gate management.
Partner with IT and Business leadership to identify and manage the pipeline of strategically aligned growth opportunities, and develop plans for executing supporting initiatives, which may include sustaining, stretch, and breakthrough innovation.
Director and their reports will manage large-scale, high impact transformation programs and lead and direct the daily activities of team members on multiple interrelated programs at the macro level, to ensure high quality and cost-effective services and end-to-end success of the overall program.
Partner with SI lead and Business Lead to ensure design meets requirements and gaps and/or issues are identified / resolved
Delivery responsibilities include the integrity, availability, and security of the ERP Application solution (including all integration) and that the delivered systems meet established IT goals.
Removing blockers that are at a higher level than individual projects, and escalating appropriately any blockers that require Senior Management review
Define the value to be achieved in terms of strategic benefits, cost efficiency and increased sales and margin for IT initiatives. Driving prioritization of initiatives across IT and Business Executive Leadership
As part of overall Project and Program Planning responsibilities, work with IT leaders in building an effective plans and budgets for cross-functional implementation success:
Define and present project options with pros/cons to project team and Stakeholders
Partner with business program owners and stakeholders to drive requirement gathering, solutioning, testing, change management, and deployment through support activities.
Determine complexity of program schedule and interdependencies to other transformational initiatives to create execution plans to meet sponsor expectations
Manage the pipeline and the overall approval process of all projects with IT leaders
Support the IT Leadership in each area to manage and execute program governance processes, expectations, and ceremonies; document and publish per Kontoor methodology requirements
Drive initial requirements gathering activities to develop the overall scoping, estimating, resource models, deployment schedules and scheduling the work efforts
Build an effective team of program resources from internal and external sources by partnering with Resource Managers to ensure proper Subject Matter Expert resources are available to engage in the program/projects required to execute
Navigate the projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including vendor proposals, planning phase, execution and monitoring phases, and close out.
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Required
Currently a Director or Senior Manager with direct experience leading IT strategy and Project Management Office responsibilities
15+ years’ experience with project and process management, extensive exposure to strategy processes
10+ years of SAP Apparel and Footwear, Fashion Management or Consumer Products industry experience
10+ years minimum experience in SAP configuration or programming leadership with recent hands-on experience
Lead development, testing, planning and execution of SAP Configuration for Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Finance or Production
Integration Testing
Cutover planning and execution
10+ years minimum experience in Leading SAP functional teams
Project management experience required
Ability to manage and coach staff
Number of people managed – minimum 15
A Bachelor’s degree in a technology discipline, IT project management or related field, and a minimum of 10 years’ experience in the wholesale, retail or consulting field or an equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities
Subject matter expertise: PPM tools, PMI best practices for Agile and Waterfall, PMO and governance, Risk Management, Supplier/Vendor Management, Stakeholder management and communication
Strong skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Smartsheets, ALM Test Management
Global travel by air and overnight, as required by project need; could be up to 10%
Preferred
PMI Certification
Experience working in the global wholesale apparel or retail industry
Master’s Degree is a Plus
Benefits
Comprehensive benefit package
Discounts on our apparel
Four weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Flexible Fridays
Tuition reimbursement
Company
Kontoor Brands, Inc.
Kontoor Brands (NYSE: KTB) is a global lifestyle apparel company, with a portfolio of some of the world's most iconic consumer brands: Wrangler® and Lee®.
10,001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$400M2021-11-23Post Ipo Debt· $400M
2019-05-23IPO· undefined
Leadership Team
Joe Alkire
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Tom Waldron
Chief Operating Officer
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