Senior Manager, Product Supply Enablement

Role & Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Driving 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.  
• Manage continued development and application of Global Allocation Tool (GAT) in partnership with Director of Allocation to enable optimized product allocation leveraging capabilities and capacities across the vendor base.
• 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.

Competency Requirements :

• Openly seeks out individuals at the Brand, region level and across supply chain to share relevant information that benefits the customer, business and VF associates.
• Debates, provides authentic dialogue, influences stakeholders to achieve the shared goal.
• Establish personal credibility and strong working relationship across VF.
• Actively listens to others and exchanges ideas.
• Applies facts and adapts own communication style and language based on the audience and situation.
• Provide active coaching to team members to encourage and foster new knowledge, ensuring VFs values are upheld, driving capability development within the team.
• Strategy fundamental with emphasis on data and complex structural situations. Able to interpret, plan and execute strategical plans that will enable all Product Categories Supply Chain sourcing journey.
• Executes business strategy and vision
• Effectively implements work plans with regular monitoring against the direction and prioritizes actions with the team.
• Embraces and executes change through agile learning and pursuing unconventional ways towards the successful implementation.
• Be accountable for delivering consistently high quality output from the team within personal domain. Possesses thorough understanding and curiosity of the operational activities, measures and initiates timely improvement actions.
• Possess deep functional subject matter knowledge in order to guide team in a day-to-day meticulous manner
• Effectively breaks down complicated information into logical points clearly conveying messages to influence and persuade within the team.
• Provide active coaching to team members to encourage and foster new knowledge while ensuring VFs values are upheld.
• Communication and influence globally and regionally.
• Build internal and external collaboration.
• Respects and includes team members with different backgrounds and preferences.
• Ability to develop and apply analytic solutions to solve business problems.
• Ability to work at a high level and detail level to draw conclusion and make recommendations.
• Experience with senior management communication.

Experience

• Minimum Relevant Experience: 8 years with minimum Supervisory Experience: 2 years
• Minimum Degree Held: University Degree , Bachelor  level