Senior Manager, Strategy & Allocation, Apparel

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

You will be providing leadership and direction to TNF sourcing strategy & global allocation team. Focus on building mid to long-term allocation & source base strategy, execute pre/in-season allocations and capability management. Foster strong partnership with global leadership stakeholder network.

How You Will Make a Difference

• Partner with brand, development operations, and cross-functional teams to co-create TNF apparel sourcing strategies alongside Director, Strategy & Global Allocation.
• Develop a holistic allocation approach and vendor portfolio that considers vendor capabilities and capacities, duty optimization, materials availability, risk mitigation, and vendor performance. Engage and influence relevant stakeholders to drive buy-in.
• Partner with planning to streamline forecast handover processes, and to ensure capacity is being built in areas of need.
• Drive collaboration with Global Materials Supply and Costing teams to align on strategic business goals
• Identify gaps and opportunities in the source base and engage development operations to build vendor capabilities.
• Map out strategic milestones & opportunities that align with overall global sourcing vision. Lead & implement allocation optimizing initiatives.
• Monitor & Review performance against Strategic goals, ensuring continuous improvement
• Identify areas of opportunity to streamline/simplify business processes & speed to market solutions.
• Lead, mentor and develop a high performing team fostering a collaborative and innovative culture.

Skills for Success

• Years of related professional experience: 7 years with 3 years in managerial roles.

• Educational requirements: Academic Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related field is preferred
  

What we expect you already know:

• Strong process management and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication skills, with experience influencing global stakeholders and capable of delivering compelling presentations and facilitating discussions with senior leaders to advance business goals.
• Proven leadership experience of managing multi-cultural teams.
• Good business acumen and understanding of the competitive global business environment, as well as an awareness of economic, social and political trends that impact the organization’s global strategy.
• Experience of coaching and developing team members, providing timely constructive feedback enabling them to excel and realize their potential.
• Drive and passion to make a difference, presenting a growth mindset that role models positivity and curiosity to your team and peers.
• Ability to present complex data findings effectively, using storytelling and visualization techniques to articulate information in a clear and impactful way.
• Ability to foster collaborative and high-performing working relationships with stakeholders.
• Knowledge of apparel development and managing a diverse product collection a plus.

Our Expectation For Demonstrating Leadership

Strategic Leadership

• Translates strategy into actionable goals for the team; aligns execution with broader business context.
• Compiles insights from industry and operational knowledge to contribute to long term strategy and vision building
• Identify team resource and capability gaps to deliver long term strategy and vision

Growing People & Teams

• Coaches team members for performance and career growth.
• Builds a collaborative team environment with a strong sense of purpose and accountability.
• Identifies team skill gaps and aligns opportunities with both business needs and individual aspirations.

Driving Results

• Takes ownership to ensure teams deliver on commitments with efficiency and effectiveness
• Takes ownership to lead execution cross-functionally to remove obstacles and optimize resources and drives through complexity
• Focused on results optimized for VF, not function

Partnership

• Leads collaboration across functions to drive synergy and resolve conflicts.
• Strengthens relationships and communication across teams and levels, act as a connector between business areas
• Aligns stakeholders, tracks cross functional goals and drives follow through beyond own team