Senior Manager, Calendar & Operations Integration

Capri Holdings Limited; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Capri Holdings Limited in New York seeks a Senior Manager, Calendar & Operations Integration to lead the seasonal product calendar across all categories, align milestones with Go‑to‑Market, and ensure on‑time delivery. You will drive calendar adherence and governance across Design and Merchandising while managing risks and dependencies to optimize speed and accountability.

You will coordinate cross‑functional milestone meetings, translate complex workflows into actionable plans, and partner with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Project Management, Product Operations, Product Development Operations, Calendar Management, or related functions within fashion, retail, footwear, accessories, or consumer products.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, product creation processes, and Go-to-Market execution.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional calendars and critical path timelines.
• Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience with PLM and project management platforms such as Centric, FlexPLM, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar tools.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated success leading process improvement and organizational change initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, maintenance, and communication of the seasonal product creation calendar across all product categories.
• Ensure alignment of key milestones, deliverables, and Go-to-Market timelines across Design and Merchandising.
• Maintain visibility into critical path activities, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Drive calendar adherence.
• Serve as the primary liaison between cross-functional teams, ensuring transparency, alignment, and accountability throughout the product lifecycle.
• Facilitate key cross-functional milestone meetings to support timely decision-making and issue resolution.
• Ensure the team aligns on next steps before concluding meetings, distribute timely recaps, and track action items through to completion.
• Partner with senior leadership to manage competing priorities and align business objectives with operational execution.
• Translate complex workflows, dependencies, and timelines into actionable plans that support successful product launches.
• Identify opportunities to improve product creation processes, workflows, and ways of working.
• Develop and maintain operational standards, documentation, and Standard Operating Procedures that support consistency and executional excellence.
• Lead initiatives focused on increasing efficiency, speed-to-market, and organizational effectiveness.
• Support change management efforts and drive adoption of new processes, on time delivery, systems, and tools.
• Monitor report progress against seasonal milestones and track key performance indicators related to calendar adherence and operational effectiveness.
• Prepare and communicate status updates, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Partner with Operations and Technology teams to enhance calendar management, reporting capabilities, and to create visibility of status.
• Establish governance processes that promote accountability, visibility, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Skills

Project management

Product operations

Product development operations

Calendar management

Cross-functional leadership

Go-to-market execution

Communication

Facilitation

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Centric

FlexPLM

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Jira

Job description

Michael Kors is always interested in hearing from talented, globally-minded individuals with a passion for fashion. If you enjoy working in a creative, fast-paced environment, then we would love to hear from you!

Who You Are

The Senior Manager, Calendar & Operations Integration, serves as a strategic leader and key cross‑functional liaison for Design and Merchandising. This role is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing the end‑to‑end seasonal Design and Merchandising product creation calendar, operational processes, and planning frameworks that drive successful product launches, Go‑to‑Market execution, and on time product delivery. The Senior Manager will oversee calendar strategy, milestone management and process governance across all product categories. This individual will ensure alignment across the organization, proactively identify risks and dependencies, and lead initiatives that improve speed, efficiency, accountability, and transparency throughout the product lifecycle. Success in this role requires strong leadership, organizational influence, strategic thinking, and the ability to navigate complex cross‑functional environments while driving operational excellence.

Calendar Strategy & Management

Lead the development, maintenance, and communication of the seasonal product creation calendar across all product categories.

Ensure alignment of key milestones, deliverables, and Go‑to‑Market timelines across Design and Merchandising.

Maintain visibility into critical path activities, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.

Drive calendar adherence

Operations Integration & Cross‑Functional Leadership

Serve as the primary liaison between cross‑functional teams, ensuring transparency, alignment, and accountability throughout the product lifecycle.

Facilitate key cross‑functional milestone meetings to support timely decision‑making and issue resolution.

Ensure the team aligns on next steps before concluding meetings, distribute timely recaps, and track action items through to completion.

Partner with senior leadership to manage competing priorities and align business objectives with operational execution.

Translate complex workflows, dependencies, and timelines into actionable plans that support successful product launches.

Process Improvement & Operational Excellence

Identify opportunities to improve product creation processes, workflows, and ways of working.

Develop and maintain operational standards, documentation, and Standard Operating Procedures that support consistency and executional excellence.

Lead initiatives focused on increasing efficiency, speed‑to‑market, and organizational effectiveness.

Support change management efforts and drive adoption of new processes, on time delivery, systems, and tools.

Reporting & Governance

Monitor report progress against seasonal milestones and track key performance indicators related to calendar adherence and operational effectiveness.

Prepare and communicate status updates, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

Partner with Operations and Technology teams to enhance calendar management, reporting capabilities, and to create visibility of status.

Establish governance processes that promote accountability, visibility, and continuous improvement across the organization.

You’ll Need to Have

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in Project Management, Product Operations, Product Development Operations, Calendar Management, or related functions within fashion, retail, footwear, accessories, or consumer products.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, product creation processes, and Go‑to‑Market execution.
• Experience managing complex cross‑functional calendars and critical path timelines.
• Proven ability to influence and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience with PLM and project management platforms such as Centric, FlexPLM, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira, or similar tools.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organizational, and problem‑solving skills.
• Demonstrated success leading process improvement and organizational change initiatives.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company's policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, military status, disability, genetic information or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. At Capri Holdings Limited, we are committed to providing a fair and accessible recruitment process.

If you require a reasonable accommodation for the interview or application process, please contact our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail].

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Compensation Range: 135,000.00 - 140,000.00 USD

Michael Kors is a world‑renowned, award‑winning designer of luxury accessories and ready‑to‑wear. His namesake company, established in 1981, currently produces a range of products under Michael Kors Collection, Michael Kors, and Michael Kors Mens, including accessories, ready‑to‑wear, footwear, watches, jewelry, and a full line of fragrance products. Michael Kors stores are operated in the most prestigious cities in the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Milan, Paris, Dubai, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. In addition, Michael Kors operates digital flagships across North America, Europe, and Asia, offering customers a seamless omnichannel experience. At the center of it all is a designer who has created an enduring and iconic luxury lifestyle brand with a distinctive point of view and global reach. Michael Kors has a sharp focus on providing his customers with accessories and clothes that are consistently polished, chic, relaxed, and glamorous. Kors has also been the recipient of numerous industry awards and accolades within the fashion industry. The fashion designer also focuses on giving back. For more than 35 years he has been a passionate supporter of God's Love We Deliver, a New York‑based non‑profit organization that cooks and delivers nutritious meals to people living with serious illnesses in and around New York City. In 2013, in a move to broaden his philanthropic efforts, Michael Kors launched "Watch Hunger Stop", partnering with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help fight world hunger. Proceeds from annual special‑edition products and other targeted initiatives help provide food to children through WFP's school meals program. To date, Michael Kors has helped WFP deliver over 35 million meals (and counting) to hungry children.

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