Senior IT Project Manager

Kontoor Brands, Inc.; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Flexible Fridays

Tuition Reimbursement

Discounts on apparel

Job summary

Kontoor Brands, Inc. is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager to lead multi-workstream SAP programs across regions. You’ll define delivery strategy, governance, and ensure alignment of business and IT, driving value and risk management.

Ideal candidates bring extensive SAP project leadership, cross-functional coordination, and experience in large-scale transformations within retail/apparel ecosystems. This role offers remote work with national scope and strong executive visibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in IT, Business or related field of study.
• PMI Certification (Preferred)

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.

Skills

Cross-regional SAP program leadership

Executive influence

Integrated planning

Financial control

Governance design

PMO capability building

Coaching

Delivery management

Education

Bachelor degree in IT, Business or related field

PMI Certification (Preferred)

Tools

SAP

Data warehousing (Snowflake/Databricks)

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

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.

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

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

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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.

Kontoor Brands, Inc.

Kontoor Brands is a lifestyle apparel company with a strong established global footprint. We operate in more than 50 countries, with corporate offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, as well as internal manufacturing facilities located in the Western Hemisphere. This is an exciting time to be a part of Kontoor Brands globally, as we are focused on leveraging our global platform to drive brand growth and are committed to further geographic expansion.

Diversity Vision Statement

Kontoor Brands is committed to creating an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the differences among all of our associates, customers, suppliers and the communities in which we live and conduct business. The continued success and growth of Kontoor Brands is enhanced through initiatives that promote diversity throughout Kontoor Brands around the world. Kontoor Brands is an equal employment opportunity/ affirmative action employer of minorities, females, protected veterans and the disabled. Kontoor Brands is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, and treating our Kontoor Brands associates and Kontoor Brands applicants without discrimination on the basis of their race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.