Director IT, Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems

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.

The Director of IT for Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing Systems at Kontoor is a global leadership role responsible for the strategy, delivery, and support of critical planning and manufacturing technology capabilities across the supply chain landscape. This role partners closely with business and IT leadership to define priorities, enable scalable solutions, and ensure the systems portfolio supports operational performance, business growth, and enterprise technology objectives.

The Director leads a team of managers, architects, analysts, and delivery partners while building strong collaboration across global business functions, regional teams, vendors, and system partners. This role also identifies and enables opportunities to apply data, automation, analytics, and AI capabilities to improve planning accuracy, manufacturing visibility, operational decision-making, and user productivity.

• Own the global IT strategy, roadmap, and delivery portfolio for Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Systems, ensuring alignment with Kontoor’s business priorities, supply chain objectives, and enterprise technology direction.
• Partner with Supply Chain Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Sales Planning, Manufacturing, and regional business leaders to define system capabilities, prioritize demand, and translate business needs into scalable technology solutions.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of global planning and manufacturing initiatives, including solution design, implementation, integration, testing, deployment, stabilization, and post-go-live support across business functions and regions.
• Build and lead a capable global IT organization, ensuring the right mix of functional, technical, architectural, and delivery skills to support current operations and future transformation needs.
• Establish governance for application standards, integration patterns, data quality, security controls, compliance practices, responsible AI adoption, and support processes to ensure reliable, secure, and scalable systems.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve planning accuracy, increase manufacturing visibility, reduce operational risk, and enhance user experience through modern application capabilities, data, analytics, automation, and practical AI-enabled solutions.
• Own operational health for the application portfolio, including service reliability, incident management, release planning, risk mitigation, budget stewardship, and executive communication on status, decisions, and trade-offs.
• Manage vendor, system integrator, and technology partner relationships, including delivery performance, resource planning, issue resolution, contract support, and alignment to enterprise architecture and business outcomes.

• Set clear direction for global Supply Chain Planning and Manufacturing Systems by aligning priorities, resources, and technology decisions with enterprise goals.

• Lead complex initiatives by making timely prioritization and trade-off decisions across scope, cost, risk, resources, timelines, and business value.
• Create accountability for disciplined execution and measurable outcomes.

• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing global IT team of managers, architects, analysts, and delivery partners.
• Strengthen team capability, accountability, succession depth, and ownership while empowering employees to deliver business-focused outcomes.

• Partner effectively with senior business leaders, cross-functional teams, regional stakeholders, vendors, and IT partners to influence decisions, drive adoption, and align business process changes with technology capabilities.
• Champion practical…