Senior IT Project Manager

Kontoor Brands, Inc.; Clayton (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave - four weeks

Flexible Fridays

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Kontoor Brands is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead large, cross-functional SAP projects and multi-workstream programs. The role drives delivery strategy, governance, and executive alignment across regions and partners.

You will manage complex programs, coordinate vendors, and mentor PMs while ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery aligned with strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Leadership of large, complex IT projects across regions and functions
• End-to-end SAP project management including cross-regional implementations
• 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 enterprise data warehouse experience (on prem/cloud)

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional and multi-regional projects or programs from mobilization through deployment and benefits transition
• Coordinate cross-regional SAP implementation or transformation projects across countries and time zones
• Define project plans, governance, critical path, budget and resource model
• Direct RAID, dependency, scope and change control; mitigate risks
• Provide executive-level reporting with forward-looking insights and accountability
• Partner with senior leaders to clarify outcomes and secure decisions
• Lead consulting partners, system integrators and vendors to deliver against contracts
• Coach PMs, establish delivery standards and PMO capabilities

Skills

Cross-regional SAP program leadership

Integrated planning & financial控制

Consulting & systems-integrator

Enterprise risk management & recovery

PMO governance & coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Business or related field

PMI Certification (Preferred)

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:

Senior IT Project Manager

Job Summary

The Senior IT Project Manager, Project Management Office is accountable for leading large, complex and high-impact IT projects or multi-workstream programs that span business functions, regions, platforms and external partners. The role establishes the delivery strategy and governance model, integrates business and technology plans, and drives executive alignment on scope, investment, sequencing, risks and outcomes. 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. The role operates with substantial autonomy, anticipates cross-program implications, resolves ambiguity and leads recovery where delivery is at risk.

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.

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Experience

• 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.)

Education

• Bachelor degree in IT, Business or related field of study.

• PMI Certification (Preferred)

Skills

• 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

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.

• four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents
• Flexible Fridays
• 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.