Director IT, Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems

Job description

Who We Are: Kontoor Brands is a portfolio of three of the world’s most iconic lifestyle, outdoor and workwear brands: Wrangler®, Lee® and Helly Hansen®. Kontoor Brands is a purpose-led organization focused on leveraging its global platform, strategic sourcing model and best-in-class supply chain to drive brand growth and deliver long- term value for its stakeholders. Job Posting: Director IT , Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems Job Summary The Director of IT for Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems at Kontoor is a global leadership role responsible for the strategy, 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, enable scalable solutions, and ensure the systems portfolio supports operational performance, business growth, and enterprise technology objectives. The Director leads a team of managers, architects, analysts, and delivery partners while building strong collaboration across global business functions, regional teams, vendors, and system 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 strategy, roadmap, and delivery portfolio for Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Systems, ensuring alignment with Kontoor’s business priorities, supply chain objectives, and enterprise technology direction. Partner with Supply Chain Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sales Planning, Manufacturing, and regional business leaders to define system capabilities, prioritize demand, and translate business needs into scalable technology solutions. Lead 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 regions. Build and lead a capable global IT organization, ensuring the right mix of functional, technical, architectural, and delivery skills to support current operations and future transformation needs. Establish governance for application standards, integration patterns, data quality, security controls, compliance practices, responsible AI adoption, and support processes to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems. 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, decisions, and trade-offs. Manage vendor, system integrator, and technology partner relationships, including delivery performance, resource planning, issue resolution, contract support, and alignment to enterprise architecture and business outcomes. Leadership Strategic and Enterprise Leadership Set clear direction for global Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Systems by aligning priorities, resources, and technology decisions with enterprise goals. Lead with a broad enterprise mindset across regions, functions, and business priorities Program and Delivery Leadership Lead complex initiatives by making timely prioritization and trade-off decisions across scope, cost, risk, resources, timelines, and business value. Create accountability for disciplined execution and measurable outcomes. Talent Development and Organizational Capability: Build, coach, and develop 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 deliver business-focused outcomes. Collaborative Influence and Change Leadership: Partner effectively with senior business leaders, cross-functional teams, regional stakeholders, vendors, and IT partners to influence decisions, drive adoption, and align 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 focused on reliability, proactive risk management, service performance, secure operations, and continuous improvement without duplicating day-to-day operational ownership. Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Supply Chain Management, or a related field. A Master's degree is a plus. 15+ years of progressive IT experience supporting supply chain, planning, manufacturing, or related enterprise 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 enterprise application platforms; experience with global delivery models and system integrators preferred. Travel, including foreign, as required up to 10%-20% of the time. Leadership Competencies Expected for this Role: Evolving Leader Global Agility – Leads diverse teams, adapts amidst ambiguity Purposeful Integrity – Leads with values, earns team’s trust, handles conflicts ethically Strategic Foresight – Connects teamwork to business strategy Customer Centric Innovation – Leads improvements rooted in customer needs Urgency for Impact – Drive priorities forward with pace and purpose Bold Accountability – Set high standards and model responsibility Empowered Collaboration – Builds inclusive teams, collaborates across functions Why Kontoor Brands? At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products. When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement. We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on equitable opportunities and a sense of belonging for all team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.