Who We Are: Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler®, Lee® and Rock & Republic®, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than 13,000 people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.
Job Posting: Business Solutions Analyst - Product Development Operations Overview: We are seeking a Business Solutions Analyst to drive operational excellence within retail product development operations by streamlining processes and implementing Smartsheet-based solutions aligned with the company's Go-To-Market calendar. This role will focus on enhancing workflows, building scalable Smartsheet tools, and collaborating with business leads to drive consistent execution and visibility across product development activities.
Additionally, this role will support the company's efforts to align tools and processes to become PLM ready, ensuring product development operations are prepared for system integrations while maintaining seamless seasonal execution.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of designing, implementing, and managing tools that support product development workflows, with the ability to train and align cross-functional teams to drive adoption and improve processes across key seasonal milestones.
Key Responsibilities: - Analyze current product development workflows to identify opportunities for streamlining, reducing manual tasks, and improving efficiency to support seasonal milestone management and Go-To-Market alignment.
- Design, implement, and maintain Smartsheet solutions for seasonal line planning, milestone tracking, sample management, fabric and trim tracking, and operational reporting.
- Leverage Control Center, DataMesh, DataShuttle, Dynamic View, cross sheet formulas and automated workflows to build scalable tools that enhance data consistency and reduce manual administrative work for cross functional business units.
- Build real-time dashboards, KPI tracking tools, and reports that improve visibility into seasonal milestones, sample readiness, and risk management, ensuring teams can track progress against the Go-To-Market calendar.
- Lead discovery and working sessions with cross-functional partners, including design, technical design, product development, sourcing, and merchandising, to gather requirements and align tools with business processes.
- Provide training and develop documentation to align teams on tool use and process expectations across seasonal milestones, ensuring consistency and adoption across the organization.
- Collaborate with business leads and cross-functional teams to ensure data consistency, effective tool integration with existing workflows, and alignment with PLM readiness initiatives and future system integrations.
- Track key performance indicators and adoption metrics to evaluate tool effectiveness and identify opportunities for further process improvement within product development operations.
Required Qualifications: - 4+ years of experience in business analysis, process improvement, or solutions analysis within retail, apparel, or consumer goods industries, with a focus on product development operations.
- Proven experience in designing and managing solutions that support product development workflows, including tools for automated workflows and dashboards.
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into scalable workflow solutions that improve efficiency and visibility across product development processes.
- Proficiency in Smartsheet, Microsoft Office Suite, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, enabling effective training and alignment of cross-functional teams to enhance processes across company tools.
Preferred Qualifications: - A solid understanding of PLM systems and their integral role within the product development lifecycle is advantageous.
- Experience in supporting fabric and trim tracking workflows, sampling, and milestone tracking, ensuring alignment with seasonal execution requirements.
- Strong understanding of retail calendars, seasonal planning, and milestone management within product development.
- Working knowledge of Power BI or other data visualization tools.
Why Join Us: In this role, you will be a key partner in transforming product development operations by streamlining workflows, aligning tools and processes with the Go-To-Market calendar, and supporting the company's PLM readiness initiatives. Your contributions will directly improve seasonal milestone execution, strengthen team alignment, and enhance operational efficiency across the organization.
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.
