Senior Product Manager - Retail Excellence (Freelance)

About PVH Corp.
PVH is one of the most admired fashion and lifestyle companies in the world.
We power brands that drive fashion forward - for good.
Our brand portfolio includes the iconic CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER. We market a variety of goods under these and other nationally and internationally known owned and licensed brands. PVH has over 40,000 associates operating in over 40 countries and $9.9 billion in annual revenues. That's the Power of Us. That's the Power of PVH.

About Tommy Hilfiger
Tommy Hilfiger, which was acquired by PVH Corp. in 2010, is a global apparel and retail company with more than 16,000 associates worldwide. With the support of strong global consumer recognition, Tommy Hilfiger has built an extensive distribution network in over 90 countries and more than 1,400 retail stores throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. Global retail sales of the Tommy Hilfiger brand were $9.2 billion in 2019

Founded in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger delivers premium styling, quality and value to consumers worldwide with a brand portfolio that includes TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS.
Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world?s most recognized premium designer lifestyle groups and is recognized for celebrating the essence of "classic American cool" style, featuring preppy with a twist designs.

Its focus is designing and marketing high-quality men's tailored clothing and sportswear, women's collection apparel and sportswear, kidswear, denim collections, underwear (including robes, sleepwear and loungewear), footwear and accessories. Through select licensees, Tommy Hilfiger offers complementary lifestyle products such as eyewear, watches, fragrance, swimwear, socks, small leather goods, home goods and luggage.

About Calvin Klein
At Calvin Klein, we believe in fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture by celebrating different perspectives, backgrounds and beliefs to truly connect with our associates and consumers. Join us and have a meaningful impact on the world ? and ? endless opportunities to design your future. Calvin Klein is a fashion lifestyle brand with bold, progressive ideals and a sensual aesthetic that is recognized worldwide. Our modern and minimalist approach to design, provocative imagery and authentic connection to culture has resonated with customers for over 50 years. Founded in 1968 by Calvin Klein and his business partner Barry Schwartz, we have built our reputation as a leader in American fashion through the distinct Calvin Klein brand lines and a licensed range of products. Global retail sales of Calvin Klein brand products exceeded $9 billion in 2019 and were distributed in over 110 countries. Calvin Klein employs over 11,500 associates globally. We were acquired by PVH Corp. in 2003.

The Position 
As a Senior Product Manager, you are responsible to create and drive the product vision and strategy regarding retail digital excellence solutions ? this includes the retail point of sale system, inventory management system and the evolution and implementation of RFID functionalities. Below areas of responsibility:

Key Responsibilities:

• Be the driver for the Digital Excellence product portfolio - (systems, processes, etc.), for both Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein. 
• Understand, drive and improve implementation of products as well as motivate innovation building on top of those core systems. Truly “own” the solution landscape which addresses the needs of our instore staff as well as out customers. 
• Act as moderator between the channels and bring them together to improve collaboration
• Define the objectives and major problems to solve in this domain, so that the product teams have clear focus
• Have a holistic view of local and legacy solutions which may be used in local markets and act as the change agent to drive PVH teams to new processes and solutions
• Collaborate with and support product teams within Omnichannel who are working on direct to consumder as well as back of house inniatives - and support them by creating and communicating a holistic vision and product strategy
• Communicate and get stakeholder buy-in for the product strategy and outlook 
• Build up a strong internal network to drive strategic projects.
• Build a strong relationship with business teams to understand their needs and painpoints
• Build a strong collaboration with Technology department and teams in order to execute the strategy into technical feasible solutions
• Define a product structure together with your Tech counterpart which will support existing applications, clean up technical debt and strive for continues improvements
   

The Ideal Candidate:

• University degree with 5-10 years of related work experience in a similar role
• Proven track-record of working with multidisciplinary Product teams (consisting of Developers, Tech lead, QA, business analists)
• In depth understanding of backend retail systems (RFID / POS Systems and more) as well as the online/offline/omnichannel processes in creating value for both our staff and our end consumer, 
• Experience of implementing solutions within a similar environment
• Profound knowledge and experience of working in both agile and waterfall methodologies, ideally previous experience as a product owner for the following applications
  • GK POS 
  • RFID
  • Integrations into mainly SAP backend solutions
  • Reporting and Analytics background 
  • Experience in cloud native solutions for omnichannel (ideally AWS)
• Appetite for technology and process-oriented mindset 
• Passionate about both the consumer experience as well as the staff experience 
• Able to work in fast changing environment, set priorities, identify impacts
• Ability to collaborate across teams and products with experts in other areas 
• Pro-active, Self-learning and Out of the box thinker
• Can-do mentality
• Excellent communication skills of written and spoken English
   

What You Can Expect from Us: 

• A company culture that fosters development, offering training and learning opportunities through our very own PVH University 
• An international environment which respects diversity, equality, and individuality 
• A smart work program that empowers our associates to work from home in the Netherlands, within a flexible schedule 
• A beautiful state-of-the-art Campus awaiting you upon our return to the office