Senior Director of Strategy, PVH EMEA
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Senior Director of Strategy, PVH EMEAThe Team
Within the EMEA Strategy team, our mission is to shape, drive, and accelerate the execution of PVH+ across the region. We work closely with the EMEA CEO, the EMEA Leadership Team, global brands, regional functions, and corporate teams to translate enterprise strategy into clear priorities, measurable plans, and coordinated execution.
The team acts as a strategic partner to the business, providing fact-based insights, challenging priorities, monitoring performance, and mobilizing cross-functional teams around the initiatives that will have the greatest impact on growth, transformation, and operational efficiency.
The Position
As Senior Director, Strategy, you will play a critical role in driving the execution of the PVH+ Plan across EMEA. Reporting to the SVP, Strategy, you will work closely with the EMEA CEO and EMEA Leadership Team to steer strategic subplans, monitor progress, identify execution risks, and ensure alignment across functions, brands, hubs, regions, and global teams.
You will act as a trusted strategic partner to senior leadership, bringing an enterprise-wide perspective and providing clear, actionable recommendations when performance or execution deviates from plan. You will help translate strategic priorities into measurable corporate, hub, functional, and brand targets, ensuring that teams operate in sync and remain focused on the priorities that matter most.
In addition, you will lead high-impact strategic projects that support growth, transformation, and efficiency. You will establish strong prioritization and performance-management disciplines, helping the organization allocate resources effectively and maintain accountability for delivery against the PVH+ Plan.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive PVH+ execution: Drive, monitor, and steer the execution of the PVH+ strategic subplans in partnership with the SVP, Strategy, the EMEA CEO, and the EMEA Leadership Team.
- Act as a trusted strategic partner: Provide objective, fact-based advice to senior leadership, flagging deviations from the PVH+ Plan and recommending clear mitigation and corrective actions.
- Ensure enterprise-wide alignment: Create 360-degree alignment across corporate functions, hubs, brands, regions, and global teams, ensuring that interdependencies, risks, and decisions are clearly understood and managed.
- Translate strategy into measurable targets: Convert strategic priorities into clear corporate, functional, hub, regional, and brand objectives, targets, milestones, and performance indicators.
- Monitor strategic performance: Establish and maintain robust performance-tracking mechanisms that provide leadership with a clear view of progress, risks, financial implications, and required decisions.
- Drive prioritization and accountability: Embed a disciplined prioritization approach aligned with the PVH+ Plan, helping leadership focus resources, investment, and organizational capacity on the highest-value initiatives.
- Lead strategic projects: Own and manage high-impact, cross-functional projects that drive growth, transformation, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation.
- Support leadership decision-making: Distill complex business challenges into clear insights, options, and recommendations that enable timely and effective executive decisions.
- Drive cross-functional execution: Mobilize teams across functions, brands, hubs, and regions, clarifying ownership, governance, milestones, resources, and expected outcomes.
- Lead transformation programs: Apply strong program and change-management disciplines to large-scale transformation initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, resource planning, risk management, and budget oversight.
- Promote continuous improvement: Identify opportunities to improve strategic planning, governance, performance management, and execution across the organization.
- Build strategic capability: Coach and support project teams and business leaders in applying structured problem-solving, strategic thinking, and execution disciplines.
Note: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, those listed above. The role may require additional tasks and duties as assigned to meet the needs of the department and organization.
Measures of Success
- PVH+ Plan Delivery: Strategic subplans are executed against agreed objectives, milestones, financial targets, and timelines.
- Strategic Alignment: Corporate functions, hubs, brands, regions, and global teams operate against clearly aligned priorities and targets.
- Executive Decision Support: Senior leaders receive timely, concise, and actionable insights that improve the quality and speed of decision-making.
- Performance Visibility: Leadership has a transparent and accurate view of strategic progress, risks, dependencies, and required interventions.
- Prioritization and Resource Allocation: Organizational resources and investments are focused on the initiatives with the greatest strategic and financial impact.
- Transformation Impact: Strategic projects deliver measurable improvements in growth, efficiency, operating performance, or organizational effectiveness.
- Risk Mitigation: Deviations from plan are identified early, escalated appropriately, and addressed through effective mitigation actions.
- Cross-Functional Execution: Complex initiatives are delivered successfully across local, regional, and global stakeholders.
- Change Adoption: Transformation initiatives achieve strong stakeholder engagement, sustained adoption, and clear business outcomes.
Requirements
This role requires an experienced strategy and transformation leader with a strong track record in top-tier management consulting and corporate strategy. The ideal candidate combines exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the leadership presence required to influence senior executives and drive execution in a complex, global, matrixed organization.
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; an MBA or equivalent advanced degree is an advantage.
- A minimum of ten years of experience within a top-tier strategy consulting firm, including at least two years at Manager or equivalent level.
- A minimum of three to five years of corporate experience within a consumer goods, retail, fashion, or luxury organization.
- Proven experience supporting or leading enterprise strategy, business transformation, performance improvement, or corporate development initiatives.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous issues and translate complex information into clear, succinct, and actionable insights.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including experience in performance tracking, financial management, business planning, and operational execution.
- Demonstrated leadership in delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives with local, regional, and global impact.
- Strong program and change-management capabilities, including stakeholder engagement, governance design, resource planning, risk management, and budget oversight.
- Proven ability to influence and challenge senior leaders constructively, building credibility as a trusted strategic partner.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to develop compelling narratives and facilitate senior-level discussions.
- Experience working effectively within a complex, global, and highly matrixed organization.
- A highly collaborative leadership style, combined with strong ownership, resilience, sound judgment, and a results-oriented mindset.
- Fluency in English; additional European languages are an advantage.
- Ability to travel internationally as required.