VP, Enterprise Planning Solutions - PVH Corp.
Company: PVH
Location: Bedminster
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
Design Your Future at PVH
VP, Enterprise Planning Solutions - PVH Corp.
POSITION SUMMARY:
PVH is one of the world's largest global apparel companies. With a
history going back over 135 years, PVH has excelled at growing
brands and businesses with rich American heritages, becoming one of
the world's largest global apparel companies. We own and market
iconic brands including Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, in
addition, market a variety of goods under our own and licensed
brands. We are over 35,000 associates operating in over 40
countries.
The VP of Enterprise Planning Solutions will be responsible for
developing the planning solutions strategy and coordination of
delivery across the e2e Planning technologies portfolio aligned to
business strategies.
This role sets the vision and strategy for PVH's approach to
transformative e2e planning opportunities, including leading edge
advanced cognitive planning & machine learning capabilities. S/he
enables cognitive intelligence in all aspects of planning across
regions, channels and brands.
This position will strategize and deliver the global planning
technologies framework at PVH. This is a pivotal role that will
have huge impact on changing the role planning plays, advancing
business and technology strategies and tactics. The role
collaborates with architecture leadership, and has responsibility
for sourcing, leading, and presenting forward-thinking, high-impact
e2e planning technology capabilities focused on key strategic
initiatives for PVH. The scope of this role includes (not limited
to) Integrated Business Planning, Merchandise Financial Planning,
Demand & Supply Planning. This role will lead cross functional
teams including business and TPG, in an exciting and engaging
environment, where s/he will be encouraged to leverage their skills
and work closely with businesses across the company to share new
ideas and deliver on their projects.
PVH operates in a fast-paced environment and the incumbent takes
initiative and is excited about being part of a cultural and
business transformation.
This role is critical in changing the internal ways of working to
enable PVH to leverage the dynamic advances in the Planning
capabilities and this individual must have proven experience in
driving transformational change, global scale and positioning the
company to incorporate emerging technologies around enterprise
planning technologies and strategies. The role holder requires a
strong ability to build a network and influence e senior,
cross-functional leaders to resolve issues that may arise to
deliver a consistently high service to our data consumers.
The VP, Enterprise Planning Solutions is passionate about applying
leadership, organizational discipline and technology to transform
the retail apparel industry. A senior leader within PVH who owns
the strategic portfolio, oversee its governance, sponsor& lead
technical development, and influence adoption through
cross-functional teams.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE JOB:
- Create, manage & develop enterprise Planning programs &
products from scoping and roadmapping to future state solutions in
a cross-business capability dedicated for using advanced planning
capabilities to solve complex business problems.
- Develop and maintain relationships with senior leadership
through TPG and business lines. Build in-depth knowledge of the
business success drivers, industry trends, regulatory issues and
competitive marketplace to develop and deliver value added business
solutions that have a measurable impact on results.
- Drive pragmatic approaches to solving key complex business
problems through advanced planning, predictive modeling and machine
learning techniques.
- The VP is responsible for defining, changing and adapting TPG's
ways of working to optimize the accelerated delivery of next
generation planning solutions.
- Evolve ways of working into agile and capability driven
operating model with business and technology partners
- Evolve a best in class team driving planning and analytic
capabilities to Modernize the solution set with best in class
solutions, architecture into a scalable & global capabilities
- Lead verbal and written communications with colleagues and
business partners at all levels to clearly articulate the approach
and the findings of interpretable forecasting & planning models and
assist in driving solutions.
- Rearchitect and grow the planning and technical environment at
PVH by bringing new technologies and techniques to create efficient
process around forecasting and planning that meet the governance
and security standards of the company and reduce time to insights
for the business.
- Create strong partnerships with various teams across PVH and be
a thought partner on concepts that will lead to evolving PVH data &
analytics maturity and grow the respective portfolio through
potential projects for prioritization by the business.
- Initiate and manage strategic external partnerships to
supplement internal advanced forecasting & planning technology
capabilities, as desired.
- Collaborate with the TPG enterprise architects on an
architecture defining our new data driven forecasting & planning
strategy.
- Partner with architects and engineering teams to design and
build scalable planning platforms to ingest, store and maximize the
leverage of very large amounts of data (structured, semi-structured
and unstructured)
- The VP is responsible to understand and set direction regarding
the strategic position of the next generation of forecasting &
planning related technologies, including ensuring the company has
the required expertise in-house or external, to support it.
- Staying current with new technologies in their area as driven
by PVH initiatives, vendor capabilities or industry best practices
& trends, and informing their peers as necessary.
- The position will be based out of our New Jersey office, with
travel to all PVH offices globally, as required. QUALIFICATIONS &
EXPERIENCE:
Experience:
- 15 years or more experience, in forecasting & planning
technologies, data architecture/leverage, engineering and
implementation (Plus of operating within a global retail
industry)
- Experience leading development/engineering teams to deliver,
deploy and maintain advanced forecasting & planning architectures,
platforms, tools and technologies
- Broad understanding of multiple technologies -These include;
- Blue Yonder suite of products/architectures
- ERP (SAP) & ERP Datawarehouses (SAP BW)
- Cloud-based data & analytics frameworks (e.g., Azure,
Databricks, Snowflake)
- Data science & advanced analytical techniques and technologies
(e.g., R, Python, Databricks)
- Strong knowledge of retail data models, ideally within a retail
environment.
- Possesses comprehensive retail business, forecasting & planning
knowledge, and the organizational skills to oversee highly complex
projects with high visibility / high impact on the business.
- Proven experience in developing, presenting and executing
plans, meeting deadlines and operating under tight time constraints
within a global scope.
- Demonstrated sense of urgency, thoroughness and quality towards
assigned tasks/goals
- Experience managing and mentoring teams, while challenging and
influencing team leads as well as providing constant direction and
feedback
- Demonstrated ability of working with and integrating multiple
internal and/or external teams including outside technology and
consulting agencies.
- Experience in enterprise/global advanced forecasting & planning
architecture & system design as well as providing guidance on all
aspects of project management and change management across tech
delivery methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Wagile, as well as
Product Mindset)
- Expertise in designing and building foundational and advanced
forecasting & planning solutions that scale within a global
environment. Education:
Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or
other related fields
Skills:
- Superior communication, persuasion & facilitation skills;
talent for storytelling, visualization and creating insights from
data to deliver practical recommendations for business action.
- Uses innovative problem solving and critical thinking
approaches to proactively solve a broad range of problems across
data technologies.
- Demonstrated leadership through product driven mindset, agile
software development managing scrum practices and building for
business outcomes
- Consultative style in relationship building and collaboration
aligned to actionable business goals; ability to influence and
drive outcomes in large, global and complex organizations.
- Accustomed to managing multiple teams on different projects.
Experience managing complex data portfolios, projects, budgets and
schedules to successful completion.
- Ability with building custom statistical models, analyzing
unstructured data, and/or machine learning is highly
desirable.
- Strong knowledge with advanced forecasting & planning
technologies
- Strong knowledge of planning technologies and tools including:
- Forecasting
- Supply Planning & Inventory optimization.
- Control Tower visualization capabilities
- Excellent problem solving skills, particularly with regard to
anticipating and solving issues or concerns before they occur or
become critical
- Strong track record of portfolio & project delivery . click
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