Director Supply Chain and Logistics Procurement

About Us:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.   

One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.

The Team
The purpose of the Procurement team is to focus on all indirect (non-merchandise) purchases and function as an internal consultant for the rest of the organization. This includes sourcing, contracting, supplier management, operations and reporting; ensuring products and services meet the required standards and/or specifications set by the business, and are cost effective. As a result, the team is responsible for partnering with functional operational leads and the Controlling department, to efficiently manage the Opex spend and some re-occurring Capex expenditure. The Procurement function plays a crucial role in identifying external spend and cost-saving opportunities, reducing expenses in line with functional needs, enhancing expenditure to be more focused and effective.

The Team collaborates with internal stakeholders to understand business need e.g., Operations SC&L, and with other functions such as IT, for example on the adoption of business-facing technology and systems. In addition, the team works with Business Finance to understand overheads and margins, and with EMEA Hub Teams to provide clear guidelines that govern local buying.

They also research the market for new vendors that can deliver valuable services/goods to PVH and in collaboration with the business ensure vendor performance. Additionally, there is a strong focus on enabling our vendors to help implement our company’s sustainability targets.

The Position
As Director – Supply Chain & Logistics Procurement, within the Procurement team, you will play a fundamental role in guiding the end-to-end procurement process in the priority area of Supply Chain & Logistics. You will be responsible for building a sourcing strategy for each subcategory and bringing the heads of (SVP / VP) for the area along in the decision-making processes. Together with your team and other stakeholders, you will deliver projects and initiatives to impact total TCO of goods and services and ensure innovation from a well performing vendor base in all relevant category areas.

The Supply Chain and Logistics Procurement Director will also work together with and provide input to the Procurement Center of Excellence / Operations team. This is a specialized team that provides leadership, training, and support to improve procurement best practices across the organization (while utilizing automatization and doing research in the areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence).

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the 3-year Supply Chain Procurement Strategy, objectives, priorities, roadmap within the sourcing area

• Proactively identify best Supply Chain and Logistics solutions & service in the market (attend Supply Chain conferences, monitor publications, etc.).

• Shortlist and roadmap of solutions 'fit-for-purpose' with the 3–5-year strategy set by the Head of Logistics / SVP Global Logistics.

• Drive the Procurement strategy for all Supply Chain & Logistics areas

• Plan and implement a proactive Procurement strategy in the respective areas bringing macro innovation through knowledge and vendor selection.

• Build together with Supply Chain & Logistics the Future Landscape, which will deliver the best TCO, quality, innovative solutions whilst maintaining risk level and ESG / I&D considerations.

• Play a key role within the macro knowledge building for PVHE to ensure we are making decisions with longevity.

• Manage the vendor performance process ensuring vendors perform and include contingency planning for key areas.

• Setup and maintain preferred vendor list per spend category while also optimizing the current vendor master data to reduce one-off and non-strate