Senior IT Project Manager

Kontoor Brands is a portfolio of lifestyle, outdoor, and workwear brands focused on leveraging its global platform, strategic sourcing model, and supply chain to drive brand growth. The Senior IT Project Manager will lead large, complex, cross-regional IT projects and SAP transformation programs, establishing governance, managing risks and resources, and aligning executives, business teams, technology teams, and external partners. The role also coaches project managers and strengthens PMO delivery standards and capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, cross-functional and multi-regional projects or programs from business case and mobilization through deployment, stabilization and benefits transition
• Lead cross-regional SAP implementation or transformation projects, coordinating business process, functional, technical, data, integration, testing, cutover and deployment teams across countries and time zones
• Define the project plans, governance structure, critical path, budget and resource model across multiple workstreams and suppliers
• Direct program-level RAID, dependency, scope and change control; identify systemic risks and drive mitigation or recovery plans before milestones are affected
• Provide executive-level reporting with forward-looking insights, decisions required, scenario analysis and clear accountability for outcomes
• Partner with senior business and IT leaders to clarify outcomes, evaluate options and trade-offs, secure decisions and maintain alignment to strategic priorities
• Lead consulting partners, systems integrators and vendors against contractual deliverables, quality expectations, financial controls and integrated delivery commitments
• Coach project managers, establish delivery standards and contribute to portfolio prioritization, capacity planning and continuous improvement of the PMO

Requirements:

• The successful candidate must bring substantial SAP project management experience, particularly leading cross-regional SAP initiatives or delivering SAP transformation programs in a consulting or systems-integration environment
• Leadership of large, complex IT projects or multi-workstream programs across regions and functions
• End-to-end SAP project management, including cross-regional SAP implementations or SAP transformation delivery in a consulting or systems-integration environment
• Executive governance, financial management, consulting/vendor leadership and program recovery
• Integration, testing, cutover and deployment leadership across multiple teams and geographies
• Wholesale, retail, apparel or consumer products industry
• Enterprise on Prem / Cloud data warehouse systems (e.g, Snowflake, Databricks, Synapse, SAP SAC .. etc.)
• Bachelor degree in IT, Business or related field of study
• Cross-regional SAP program leadership and executive influence
• Integrated planning, financial control and dependency management
• Consulting and systems-integrator delivery management
• Enterprise risk management, negotiation and delivery recovery
• Coaching, governance design and PMO capability building
• PMI Certification