Vice President, Organizational Enablement

kbi; Greensboro (NC); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible Fridays

Tuition Reimbursement

Job summary

Kontoor Brands is seeking a VP, Organization Enablement to lead change management, organizational effectiveness, and people operations across its global portfolio. This role ensures readiness for enterprise strategy execution, drives design, operating models, and workforce enablement, and delivers scalable HR services for a multi-brand workforce.

The leader will steer enterprise change management, HR technology, and operating model evolution while partnering with senior leadership to maximize

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• 15+ years of leadership in Organization Effectiveness, Design, or Transformation.
• Experience in global retail or multi-brand organizations.
• Background in management consulting and enterprise transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise organizational effectiveness and change management programs across a global, multi-brand portfolio.
• Partner with senior leadership to optimize organizational health and operating models.
• Design and implement frameworks for organizational design, change readiness, and benefits realization.
• Manage HR technology strategy, HRIS, data analytics, and digital HR solutions.
• Drive adoption, governance, and stakeholder engagement across functions and geographies.
• Monitor outcomes and mitigate risks to ensure measurable business impact.

Skills

Change management

Organizational design

Enterprise transformation

Executive stakeholder management

Leadership

Workforce analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree

Tools

HRIS

HR analytics tools

ERP 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:

VP, Organization Enablement

Job Summary

The Vice President, Organization Enablement serves as the enterprise leader for change management, organizational effectiveness, and people operations across Kontoor’s global, multi-brand portfolio.

This leader is responsible for ensuring the organization is prepared to successfully execute Kontoor’s enterprise strategy and transformation initiatives. This role leads enterprise organization design, operating model evolution, workforce enablement, HR Technology, and enterprise change management, ensuring strategic initiatives, acquisitions, restructurings, technology implementations, operating model changes, and workforce transformations are executed with consistency, speed, adoption, and measurable business impact. Simultaneously, the role leads the organization's people operations strategy, delivering scalable, efficient, and employee-centric HR services that support a multi-brand global workforce.

This role bridges operational excellence and transformation execution to enable growth, strengthen organizational capabilities, enhance employee experience, and drive enterprise performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise organizational effectiveness and change management agenda, establishing methodologies, governance, frameworks, standards, tools, and best practices that support business transformation and growth
• Partner with senior leadership to assess and optimize organizational health and effectiveness, including organizational design, decision rights, workforce productivity, and operating model effectiveness
• Design and implement enterprise frameworks for organizational design, change readiness, stakeholder engagement, adoption, and benefits realization.
• Lead organizational impact assessments and people-related planning for major enterprise initiatives, transformations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
• Develop and execute enterprise-wide change management strategies across brands, functions, and geographies, supporting technology deployments, digital transformations, process modernization, and operating model changes.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and adoption by partnering closely with Communications, Regional HR Business Partners, Total Rewards, Talent & Culture, and business leaders to ensure successful implementation of change initiatives.
• Monitor and measure organizational and transformation outcomes, including change readiness, , adoption metrics, workforce effectiveness, and realization of business benefits.
• Identify organizational risks, barriers, and change impacts, developing mitigation plans and interventions that support successful implementation and sustained performance
• Leads HR Technology function providing strategic leadership and overseeing HRIS, workforce data and analytics, digital HR solutions, automation, and technology governance.
• Lead the evolution of the global HR operating model and service delivery strategy, driving standardization, automation, service excellence, governance, HR technology optimization, and continuous improvement of employee experience and HR services.
• Optimize utilization of HR technologies, self-service capabilities, and employee support channels; partner with HR Centers of Excellence and HR Business Partners to continuously improve service quality and employee experience.

Leadership

• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide organizational transformation within large, global organizations
• Demonstrated success designing operating models and leading complex organizational redesigns.
• Deep expertise in enterprise change management methodologies and execution.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, and large-scale transformations.
• Executive presence with demonstrated ability to influence C-suite leaders
• Experience building high-performing global teams

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field; Masters preferred
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Organization Effectiveness, Organization Design, Organizational Development, Enterprise Transformation, Management Consulting, or Human Resources.
• Experience within global retail, consumer products, or multi-brand organizations.
• Background in management consulting and enterprise transformation
• Experience scaling global shared services and HR service delivery.
• Experience supporting publicly traded companies.
• Familiarity with organizational network analysis, workforce analytics, and organizational diagnostics

Leadership Competencies Expected for this Role:

Transformational Leader

Global Agility - Builds globally agile organizations, sets global talent strategy

Purposeful Integrity - Embeds ethics in enterprise culture, models mission driven leadership

Strategic Foresight - Crafts enterprise vision, influences and directs

Customer Centric Innovation - Drives disruptive innovation for growth and reinvention

Urgency for Impact - Lead enterprise transformation for large scale change with speed

Bold Accountability - Take full accountability for bold, enterprise-wide outcomes

Empowered Collaboration - Aligns partnerships across the enterprise and ecosystem

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.