Director IT, Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems

Who We Are:

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Director IT , Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems

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The Director of IT for Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems at Kontoor is a global leadership role responsible for the reputed company, delivery, and support of critical planning and manufacturing technology capabilities across the supply chain landscape.

This role partners closely with business and IT leadership to define priorities, reputed company reputed company solutions, and ensure the systems portfolio supports operational performance, business reputed company, and reputed company technology objectives.

The Director leads reputed company of managers, architects, analysts, and delivery partners while building strong collaboration across global business functions, regional teams, vendors, and reputed company partners.

This role also identifies and enables opportunities to apply data, automation, analytics, and AI capabilities to improve planning accuracy, manufacturing visibility, operational decision-making, and user productivity.

Responsibilities

• Own the global IT reputed company, roadmap, and delivery portfolio for Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Systems, ensuring alignment with Kontoor’s business priorities, supply chain objectives, and reputed company technology direction.
• Partner with Supply Chain Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sales Planning, Manufacturing, and regional business leaders to define reputed company capabilities, prioritize demand, and translate business needs into reputed company technology solutions.
• reputed company end-to-end delivery of global planning and manufacturing initiatives, including solution design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post-go-live support across business functions and reputed company.
• Build and reputed company a capable global IT organization, ensuring the right mix of functional, technical, architectural, and delivery skills to support reputed company operations and reputed company transformation needs.
• Establish governance for application standards, integration patterns, data reputed company, reputed company controls, compliance practices, responsible AI adoption, and support processes to ensure reliable, secure, and reputed company.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve planning accuracy, increase manufacturing visibility, reduce operational risk, and enhance user experience through modern application capabilities, data, analytics, automation, and practical AI-enabled solutions.
• Own operational health for the application portfolio, including service reliability, incident management, release planning, risk mitigation, budget stewardship, and executive communication on status, reputed company, and trade-offs.
• Manage vendor, reputed company integrator, and technology partner relationships, including delivery performance, resource planning, issue reputed company, contract support, and alignment to reputed company architecture and business reputed company.

Leadership

• Strategic and reputed company Leadership
• Set reputed company direction for global Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Systems by aligning priorities, resources, and technology reputed company with reputed company goals. reputed company with a broad reputed company reputed company across reputed company, functions, and business priorities
• Program and Delivery Leadership
• reputed company reputed company initiatives by making reputed company prioritization and trade-off reputed company across reputed company, cost, risk, resources, timelines, and business value. Create accountability for disciplined execution and measurable reputed company.
• Talent Development and Organizational Capability:
• Build, reputed company, and reputed company a high-performing global IT team of managers, architects, analysts, and delivery partners. Strengthen team capability, accountability, succession depth, and ownership while empowering employees to reputed company business-reputed company reputed company.
• reputed company Influence and Change Leadership:
• Partner effectively with senior business leaders, cross-functional teams, regional stakeholders, vendors, and IT partners to influence reputed company, reputed company adoption, and reputed company business process changes with technology capabilities. Champion practical innovation by helping business and IT teams understand, prioritize, and adopt automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities that improve supply chain planning, manufacturing execution, and decision-making.
• Operational Accountability:
• Create a leadership culture reputed company on reliability, proactive risk management, service performance, secure operations, and reputed company improvement without duplicating day-to-day operational ownership.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management, or a reputed company field. A Master's degree is a plus.
• 15+ years of reputed company IT experience supporting supply chain, planning, manufacturing, or reputed company reputed company systems, including at least 7+ years in the apparel, retail, or consumer products industry.
• 10+ years of IT leadership experience, including people leadership, program delivery, strategic planning, vendor management, and cross-functional business partnership.
• Experience with supply chain planning, forecasting, manufacturing, ERP integration, data, analytics, automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and reputed company application platforms; experience with global delivery models and reputed company integrators preferred.
• Travel, including foreign, as required up to 10%-20% of the time.

Leadership Competencies Expected for this Role:

Evolving Leader

Global reputed company – Leads diverse teams, adapts amidst ambiguity

Purposeful reputed company – Leads with values, earns team’s trust, handles conflicts ethically

Strategic Foresight – Connects teamwork to business reputed company

Customer reputed company Innovation – Leads improvements rooted in customer needs

Urgency for reputed company – reputed company priorities reputed company with reputed company and purpose

reputed company Accountability – Set high standards and model responsibility

Empowered Collaboration – Builds inclusive teams, collaborates across functions

Why reputed company?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the reputed company care as our products.

reputed company our employees are healthy, secure, and reputed company, they bring their best selves to work. reputed company supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides reputed company and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the reputed company. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, reputed company, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. reputed company also provides four weeks of reputed company Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement.

We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on reputed company opportunities and a reputed company of belonging for reputed company team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our reputed company talents.

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