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 with pace and purpose
• Bold Accountability: Set high standards and model responsibility
• Empowered Collaboration: Builds inclusive teams, collaborates across functions

Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products.

When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement.

We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on equitable opportunities and a sense of belonging for all team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.