HRIS Director (Workday)

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 HRIS Director is a a key leadership role in Global HR with end-to-end accountability for Kontoor’s HR technology ecosystem. The leader is responsible for partnering with key stakeholders in designing a multi-year strategy that enables the Global HR function to deliver high-impact, quality solutions to the organization.  This is a combination “build-run” role that will establish strong technical capability, drive efficiency, and ensure ongoing operational discipline.      The role requires a strategic team leader with expertise in overseeing a team of experts responsible for enterprise-level HCM solutions, data governance, and analytics. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading with Excellence:  Define operating norms with a focus on prioritization and empowered stakeholder collaboration enabled by transparent trade-offs and roadmaps, predictable deliver and release discipline, and exceptional technical expertise.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement collaborative strategic plans for HR technology initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
• Strategic Management and Optimization: Oversee the implementation, Maintenance, and optimization of HR technology systems to ensure they meet the evolving needs of the organization.
• Project Management: Lead HR technology projects, from proactive planning and execution to completion, managing take-holder satisfaction, timelines, budgets, and resources effectively.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with internal and external HR professionals, IT specialists, business leaders, HRBP’s and other stakeholders to identify needs and develop solutions that enhance the broad HR technology landscape.
• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve HR Processes and systems functionality, leveraging technology solutions to streamline operations and enhance efficiency.
• Compliance: Ensure HR technology systems comply with legal and regulatory requirements, maintaining data privacy and security standards.
• Training and Support: Provide training and support to HR staff and users, ensuring they are equipped to utilize HR technology accurately. Ensure training includes effective employee and people manager compliance.
• Reporting and Analytics: Conduct regular system audits. Partner with the business to develop and manage reporting tools and analytics, including the building of a user report library that offers access by appropriate users to provide insights into HR metrics and trends.
• Vendor Management: Proactively managing relationships with HR technology vendors, including contract negotiation and on-going performance evaluations.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 10+ years in HR Technology management and enterprise systems including at least 5 years leading transformations or complex, multi-national portfolios.   
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in HR, Information Technology, Business Management, or related field.
• Preferred Certifications:  HRIS or HCM certifications (Workday strongly preferred)
• Technical Skills; Expertise in HR/HCM systems, system integrations, data governance, and analytics.   
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering a highly accountable culture that thrives in a high-performance environment.
• Strategic Thinking: Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with a laser focus on follow-through and delivery.
• Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring accuracy in data management and systems operations.
• Adaptability: Flexibility and adaptability to manager changing priorities and initiatives.
• Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Leadership Competencies for this Role:

• Global Agility: Leads diverse teams, adapts amidst ambiguity

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

• Strategic Foresight: Connects team work to business strategy

• Consumer Centric innovation: Leads improvements rooted in customer needs

• Urgency for Impact: Drive priorities forward