Senior Manager, Product Supply Enablement

**Role & Responsibilities**:
Position Definition (Key Purpose of the Position):
The individuals, in collaboration and alignment with Global Product Supply VP and FTW / EQUIP / APP Sourcing VPs, will set the direction and prioritize the project roadmap to best support and continue to transform the Product Supply Sourcing organization. Resource will own the Product Supply VP, Global Sourcing Development Director and Regional Director Sourcing Operations stakeholder relationships across Global Product Supply and contribute as member of the PSE Leadership Team.
- Lead, direct and be accountable for the overall performance of the PSE Sourcing Enablement team and partner with team in the delivery of all project strategy portfolio, business process improvement, data analytics, and systems adoption.
- Drivine harmonization across sourcing teams and ensuring that Sourcing Enablement work is implemented consistently across product categories and regions.

Lead a team focusing on:

- Support the Product Sourcing VP’s and Global Sourcing Directors throughout the GTM processthrough the creation, collation and curation of required inputs & outputs from the GTM milestones including translating outputs to broader stakeholders as required to support overall management of sourcing activities to meet needs of brands, VF and consumers.
- Partnering with Product Sourcing VP’s & Global Sourcing Development Leads through analysis and research to develop a overview of Global Sourcing COO and vendor partnership Sourcing Strategy that will guide the decision making for product allocation and gaps analysis found on the process.
- Partnering with Product Sourcing VP’s & Global Materials Leads through analysis and research to develop a overview of Global Materials COO and supplier partnership Sourcing Strategy that will guide the decision making for COO & supplier matrix recommendations to maximise VF’s value & manage enterprise risk.
- Manage & evolve workload analysis tool (WLA) supporting Product Sourcing VP’s in understanding product development workloads across brands, regions and global vendor basis and associated deployment of VF resources to maximise efficiency & effectiveness of product development processes.
- Develop, evolve and manage management dashboards that support performance management across Global Sourcing teams including training of users. Current dashboards under management include:

- Striving for Simplicity/global product development
- Trade partner footprint
- Spend by Compliance
- Vendor Performance Management
- Supplier Performance Management
- Multi Speed Supply
- Leadtime 1 compliance
- And develop others required to support business performance and enhance effectiveness of business activities
- Manage vendor onboarding & offboarding process across global product supply including verification of vendor credentials and coordinating across MDO for systems setup
- Manage Salesman Sample happy flow ensuring clear communication & adherance of calendar & milestones that enable vendors to meet production deadlines for salesman samples required to support commercial processes across regions.
- Develop SOP and governance for continuous improvement processes across VFs Product Organization. Help drive process harmonization with the regional product teams and brands including SOPs and brand standards. Work on new policies, procedures and standards to deliver high quality product and improve efficiency. Work on metrics, analytics and KPIs to improve operations and optimize the business process.
- Responsible for defining the tools and data structures needed to support vendor certification efforts, ad hoc project management or analyses to address complex business needs and performance management [including the evolution and global alignment of the Vendor Performance Management Tool (VPM), Supplier Performance Management tool (SPM), development & implementation of consequence models and SAM Programs].
- Cross functional activation work across Global Sourcing, Quality, Supply Planning, Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing Teams.

Key Result Areas:

- Lead PSE Sourcing Enablement Team, establishing performance expectations and standards, serve as a role-model and provide leadership direction to direct reports.
- Partner with other PSE resources to create data analytics strategies and drive adoption of key systems such as INFOR and PLM.
- All Product Group Sourcing Strategy with specific focus on COO and vendor partnership to progress with the quarterly revision of a 3-year vision and solid and executable plan.
- Execute analytical efforts to support VF Product Operations initiatives and brand-specific product strategies.
- Support strategic initiatives, perform analyses and communicate learnings and insights across internal and external channels.
- Proactively identify opportunities to evolve the data and analytics roadmap based on the needs of the business.
- Provide quantitative research, analysis and support identify