Brand & Planning Director, Hub North

About Us:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.   

One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH .

The Wholesale Team at PVH plays a crucial role in expanding PVH's reach beyond the Retail Brick & Mortar landscape (for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein), building and nurturing strong partnerships with external partners, and driving revenue growth through bulk sales. Our team is dedicated to developing and maintaining relationships with wholesale clients, including independent retailers, distributors, and corporate buyers. Our Wholesale teams focus on understanding our customer’s needs, providing tailored product recommendations, and ensuring seamless order fulfilment. Through strategic sales planning, market analysis, and excellent customer service, we ensure we meet our customers’ needs, while strengthening our company’s position in the market. Whether working with long-term clients or onboarding new accounts, our team is committed to delivering exceptional value and fostering lasting business relationships.

The team collaborates closely with other EMEA Hubs, with Wholesale and Merchandising Teams (both within the North Hub and within EMEA), as well as with Operations, Financial Controlling and Business Development to steer the Business and grow both brands.

About THE ROLE

As PVH Brand and Planning Director you are a Senior Leader in the Wholesale team, answering into the VP Wholesale. You have a dual mandate to steward the brand assortment and strategy for Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein in the North Hub, and to lead the Wholesale Planning activity. In leading the assortment validation, you will possess a depth of knowledge across both brands and work closely with your Brand Managers and the Sales teams to understand partner assortment needs. You will then communicate this back to EMEA Brand teams, feeding into an assortment which fully meets the needs of Wholesale partners. In leading Wholesale planning, you will lead a team forecasting, monitoring, and reporting on product demand for both Seasonal and NOS assortments, ensuring best-in-class fulfilment metrics

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Brand Leadership: Lead and guide the strategic direction of both PVH brands within the North Hub Wholesale team, ensuring alignment with global brand guidelines and regional market requirements. Act as the senior brand authority, influencing key decisions and driving brand growth through strategic initiatives.

• Partner Requirements & Market Insights: Provide strategic oversight to ensure that wholesale partner collection and merchandising requirements are understood and met. Gather and communicate market insights to inform product strategies, ensuring that assortments are aligned with regional customer needs.

• Product Strategy & Oversight: Oversee the integration of regional product guidelines and segmentation strategies, ensuring that they are effectively translated into actionable plans for the North Hub. Lead and guide teams to ensure that product feedback from regional markets informs the product development process.

• Wholesale planning: Lead development and execution of wholesale planning processes in the Hub to drive best-in-class demand fulfilment to wholesale partners

• Budgets and forecast alignment: Collaborate with internal stakeholders across sales, finance, brand teams to develop robust forecasts, budgets and operational plans

• Trend and performance reporting: Ensure timely and accurate reporting on performance, forecasts and key market trends are available to key Wholesale decisionmakers

• Data-driven decisionmaking: Ensure forecasting is aligned with business objectives and fosters a culture of data-driven decisionmaking

• PMI Management: Oversee the calculation and tracking of replenishment needs for PMI partners to ensure ongoing product availability

• NOS Management: Negotiate and align with NOS partners on weeks cover targets and ramp-up plans to ensure consistent availability, own full relationship and performance management for all NOS partners

• Logistics and Fulfilment management: Coordinate with logistics, customer service, and sales to streamline processes and ensure timely fulfilment

About YOU

• Extensive experience within a Wholesale Leadership role, preferably in a Global fashion consumer or lifestyle brand.

• Evidenced understanding of and ability to communicate PVH's brand story and values (including both Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein).

• Proven ability to develop and implement efficient planning and replenishment mechanisms.

• Strong negotiation, commercial, and financial acumen.

• Strong understanding of regional retail landscapes across EMEA with deep understanding of the European markets in particular.

• Excellent leadership, relationship-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Willingness to travel internationally as and when required for this role.

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.