Director, Store Workforce Management - PVH
About the Role
The Director, Store Workforce Management (WFM) leads the strategy and execution of labor investment across a large-scale, multi-brand North America retail fleet, ensuring labor is deployed to directly enable sales conversion, service excellence, customer experience, and store-level profitability. This role owns labor forecasting, workforce planning, scheduling strategy, and payroll optimization—translating business drivers into highly accurate, precise, and actionable labor decisions. As a key partner to Executive Store Leadership and Finance, the Director ensures labor is dynamically aligned to demand, balancing productivity, service, and financial performance. The Director oversees a $175M annual payroll investment and serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on labor strategy, performance, and trade-offs—driving measurable improvements in store productivity, execution, and 4-wall profit performance.
What You'll Do
- Lead workforce management strategy across the entire North America retail fleet
- Establish labor frameworks that balance sales, service, productivity, and 4-wall profitability
- Drive improvements in conversion, service coverage, labor efficiency, and store-level profit outcomes
- Own end-to-end labor forecasting aligned to sales, traffic, and workload drivers, with a focus on forecast accuracy and decision precision
- Lead payroll planning, budgeting, reforecasting, and variance analysis
- Translate business trends into in-period labor decisions, optimizing spend against performance
- Partner with Finance to evaluate labor investment trade-offs and impact to store-level profitability
- Develop driver-based labor models linking demand, workload, and customer behavior to staffing decisions
- Deliver timely, accurate insights that improve decision quality at both leadership and field levels
- Partner with IT to enhance systems and enable scalable, data-driven decision-making across the fleet
- Support testing, validation, rollout, and ongoing business ownership of WFM tools, ensuring the department has clear subject-matter expertise on functionality, configuration, and operational use
- Partner cross-functionally to align labor strategies with business priorities
- Ensure strategies translate into measurable improvements in store productivity, conversion, service execution, and profitability
- Influence field leadership to drive disciplined, high-quality labor execution
- Lead test-and-learn initiatives to improve labor models, forecasting accuracy, scheduling approaches, and tools
- Establish disciplined testing routines for new labor models, scheduling processes, and system enhancements before broader field deployment
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree required (Finance, Economics, Analytics, Engineering, or related field preferred)
- 10+ years of experience in workforce management, labor optimization, finance, or analytics, with demonstrated experience leading teams and business-critical initiatives
- Experience in a scaled, multi-unit, consumer-facing environment (retail, QSR, or omnichannel)
- Proven success optimizing labor strategies across large store fleets (250+ locations preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to drive accurate forecasting, data-driven decision-making, and measurable financial outcomes
- Experience partnering on workforce management system testing, implementation, optimization, or tool ownership preferred
- Strong analytical and financial acumen with ability to translate data into business decisions
- Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership
- Leads a team of 3 across workforce planning, analytics, and systems
- Partners across Store Operations, Finance, HR, and IT
- Responsible for optimizing the largest controllable expense on the store P&L and improving 4-wall profit performance
- Up to 10% travel
- This position is not eligible for sponsorship.
Pay & Benefits
Pay Range: $147,500—$199,200. This role is bonus eligible and equity eligible.
PVH offers a market-competitive total rewards package including:
- Competitive pay and bonus programs
- Best in class medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, and disability insurance
- Above-market 401(k) contribution to help eligible associates save for retirement
- Generous company-paid holidays, paid time off, hybrid working arrangements, volunteer opportunities, seasonal hours, and flexible work schedules
- Wellbeing tools and programs including Headspace membership, reimbursement for fitness memberships and/or digital meditation subscriptions, and the opportunity to earn up to $200 a year in rewards for exercising and participating in healthy activities
- Access to Care.com services for childcare, elder care, adoption preparation, pet care, plus reimbursement for backup care
- Education assistance including tuition reimbursement
- Associate discount at company outlets and e-commerce sites
Please note, eligibility depends on employment status, location and length of time employed with PVH and benefits may be subject to change. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.