Sr. Manager, Global GTM Calendar & Business Process - Calvin Klein

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Position Summary:

The Clavin Klein Global Product Kitchen produces assortments for all regions, categories and product lines including Mainline, Outlet and Off Price. The Global GTM Calendar and Business Process Manager must support brand growth by enabling and driving business strategies through calendar management, process improvement, and communication. Develop, analyze, measure, optimize and document processes across the organization with a focus on Global Supply, Design & Merchandise. Work collaboratively with all departments to ensure all key milestones are captured in the calendar and business processes. Responsible to improve calendar and business process efficiencies across all categories and product lines.

Building process, understanding dependencies, managing deadlines, problem solving, and managing cross functional relationships are crucial to this position.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create, maintain, refine, & communicate all Seasonal Product Lifecycle calendars across multiple categories, product lines and regional market timelines and nuances

• Facilitate process for calendar alignment prior to publication to the business

• Responsible to roll out process and RACI for calendar adherence and tracking post publication to the business

• Accountable for providing workable calendars to the business that prioritize the right activities at the right time with defined responsible person / function.

• Collaborate with functional leaders to ensure timelines are maintained & milestones are achieved

• Resolve potential and actual cross functional issues that affect the calendar process and organization

• Continuous improvement of business processes and managing the team during the transition periods

• Map “as is” and future-state business processes, analyze gaps, and provide recommended solutions

• Ability to see when calendar & business processes need to be challenged and evolved

• Ability to challenge and refine business process & data requirements

• Lead cross functional teams to analyze process problems systematically, organize information, identify root causes & generate solutions with the ability to recognize the risk & impact to the organization

• Improve business processes through tools, metrics, and dashboard reporting to enable decision making. 

• Ability to facilitate business process, monitors, and provides feedback to cross functional associates working toward business goals.

• Data driven with the ability to execute results in excel and Microsoft Office platforms.

• Leverage supply chain knowledge to inform feasible timelines, accounting for material lead times, production constraints, and shipping windows.

• Drive postmortem for calendar and process changes to identify continuous improvements

• Delegate & empower cross functional teams to achieve business goals through process adherence

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of experience in product development and business process, supply chain background preferred.

• Prior experience in creating and managing calendars

• Proficiency in project management or PLM tools (e.g.Centric PLM, Asana).

• Prior experience with Power BI and or Queries preferred.

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in business

• Project management, PMP certification is an asset

• Strong excel skills including formula and pivot creations, PLM, Power BI , problem solving, analytical skills

• Provides input into the function or business's operational plan in support of overall strategy

• Problems and issues are not well defined and require understanding of other disciplines and job areas

• Collaborating with multiple cross functional partners and departments to resolve solutions regarding calendar cadence and unavoidable circumstances.

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