Senior Manager, Demand Planning Center of Excellence

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:

The Senior Manager, Demand Planning Center of Excellence (COE) owns the enterprise demand planning strategy, operating model, standards, governance, integration, and capability roadmap. This role drives consistent execution across business streams, provides a credible demand view to Commercial leadership and Executive SIOP, and translates demand insights into operational and financial implications. The leader advances planning maturity and business performance through stronger processes, data, technology, analytics, and planner capabilities.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise Standards and Governance

- Define and govern enterprise demand planning metrics, methodologies, calendars, templates, and operating cadences.

- Own WAPE, bias, and related performance measures, with targets tailored by stream or portfolio.

- Standardize risks and opportunities processes, governance routines, and escalation paths.

- Maintain the COE roadmap, documentation, training content, and success measures.

Demand Integration and Performance Management

- Lead enterprise demand aggregation, validation, and roll-up across all streams.

- Govern demand scorecards and approve executive outputs.

- Monitor forecast accuracy, bias, forecast value add, risks, and opportunities; lead scenario planning, escalate material issues, and drive corrective action.

- Lead root-cause analysis and improve forecast performance, data quality, inventory health, service outcomes, and alignment to a single demand view.

Executive SIOP and Business Partnership

- Represent demand planning in Executive SIOP and Commercial, Finance, and cross-functional forums.

- Deliver executive-ready demand insights, decisions, and operational and financial implications.

- Challenge unsupported assumptions and resolve cross-stream conflicts.

- Build confidence in the demand outlook through transparent, consistent, fact-based recommendations.

Capability, Technology, and Partner Leadership

- Lead, coach, and develop demand planners through structured onboarding, capability assessment, succession planning, and ongoing development.

- Manage performance and issue resolution with outsourced planning partners.

- Sponsor improvements to demand processes, planning systems, data, automation, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled forecasting capabilities.

- Drive adoption of standards and best practices across functions and business streams.

Decision Authority

- Set enterprise demand metrics, definitions, methods, standards, and governance requirements.

- Approve demand roll-ups, scorecards, and executive outputs.

- Enforce COE standards, timelines, and operating routines.

- Escalate material risks and recommend changes to processes, capabilities, data, tools, and partner models.

LEADERSHIP

- Enterprise mindset and sound judgment.

- Executive presence and clear, concise communication.

- Influence, facilitation, conflict resolution, and change leadership.

- Objectivity, accountability, and commitment to continuous improvement.

REQUIREMENTS

- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, finance, analytics, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

- 8–10+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, forecasting, S&OP/IBP, or supply chain planning, including leadership of enterprise-scale, cross-functional initiatives.

- Expertise in forecast accuracy and bias, statistical forecasting, segmentation, risks and opportunities, and performance management.

- Proven ability to align Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning, and senior leaders around an enterprise demand view.

- Strong analytical and executive communication skills; experience with enterprise planning platforms, data governance, and external partners preferred.

Leadership Competencies Expected For this Role:

Global Agility: Leads Diverse Teams, adapts amidst ambiguity

Purposeful Integrity: Leads with values, earns team’s trust, handles conflicts ethically

Strategic Foresight: Connects teamwork to business strategy

Customer Centric Innovation: Leads improvements rooter in customer needs

Urgency for Impact: Drive priorities forward with pace and purpose

Bold Accountability: Set high standards and model responsibility

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.