Executive Assistant​/IT Project Manager

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.

The IT Project Manager and Executive Admin is a dual role reporting to the CIO and indirectly to the Senior Director of Project Management. The PM / Executive Admin will provide administrative and logistical support to the IT management team and project managers involved in the initial implementation and future activities for IT. This dynamic professional will utilize broad and comprehensive administrative and project support experience, skills and knowledge to manage and successfully execute diversified functions with limited supervision and will proactively seek ways to relieve the executives of administrative details.

Additionally, the Project Manager and Executive Admin will interface with a wide range of important external contacts.

The IT Project Manager role is responsible for overseeing the effective planning and execution of projects and supporting the IT planning processes across the brands in such a way that the Kontoor Business objectives are achieved. Such processes may include supporting or leading multiple, single or multi-year projects, RFx execution, Technical Architecture Review management, ongoing processes such as governance, project management and developing status reporting for multiple IT initiatives.

This Project Manager and Executive Admin is a hands-on individual with leadership and management qualities that support collaboration and trust to drive cross-functional teams. This position carries a high degree of accountability for ensuring projects are planned, managed and executed through reliable processes. These projects are across all platforms including SAP, supply chain, ecommerce, Retail and Finance. The project manager will work with the regional and global project teams as well as the business teams.

In this role, Executive Assistant component of the role will be the main executive administrative support for theCIO and their leadership team. Coordinating a variety of administrative and project management duties in support of this office and team.

Some of this work will be highly confidential.

• Provide project management support for small to medium-scale IT projects
• Develop overall project charter including the management of all activities necessary to create the technical solution architecture for the project
• Develop overall workplan required for the system development lifecycle
• Develop and coordinated integration test plans, schedules and activities across multiple
• Drive initial requirements gathering activities to develop the overall scoping, estimating, resource models, deployment schedules and scheduling the work efforts
• Build an effective team of resources from internal and external sources
• Navigate the projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, including vendor proposals, planning phase, execution and monitoring phases, and close out
• Organizing, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings. Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings.

• Support the IT Management in each area to manage and execute project governance processes across IT; document and publish per Kontoor methodology requirements
  • Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings
  • Develop and support the functional and technical teams in status, risk management, CCB, issues, etc.
• Preparing and analyzing…