PRICING BUSINESS PROCESS LEAD, NEXT GENERATION TRANSFORMATION

at  Ralph Lauren

Ref #:
W151831
Department:
Business Strategy
City:
Plan-les-Ouates
State/Province:
Geneva
Location:
Switzerland
Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren’s reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company’s brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world’s most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
As a part of Ralph Lauren’s Next Generation Transformation (NGT), the core operating systems of the company (SAP, Island Pacific and Microsoft D365) will be replaced with a common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution enabling the Ralph Lauren team to continue delivering competitive advantages in our next great chapter and beyond. Today, Ralph Lauren is forming the Program Initiation Team to begin creating the transformation plan, defining how the company will operate going forward and how the implementation of the new systems will lead to a common way of working globally across the company. This new way of working impacts almost all of the business including Planning, Sourcing and Buying, Retail and Wholesale, Logistics and Distribution and Finance. Therefore, we are looking for the initial team to start to create the future way of working and help shape the next 20 years.
The Pricing Global Business Process Lead will join a small team of business function process leads, IT domain leaders and the ERP vendor representatives known as the Program Initiation Team who will work together to take the first steps in this journey. The team will work closely together to achieve a set of the common objectives below ultimately leading to the initiation of the global program and the creation of all the articles needed to launch the project in 2025. This first, necessary step will ensure Ralph Lauren understands the key phases, impact, business resources and timeline required to begin the program. This is an opportunity to join one of the largest investments that the company will be making over the next decade, and we seek talent that is excited to help shape the future, being part of the journey and eventually taking this knowledge back into the business.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Pricing Global Business Process Lead will bring specific business process / solutions competence and experience within RL of the Pricing function including the following processes: OTC and DTC Pricing. This role will take responsibility for activities defined below.
The role will focus on creating a detailed understanding of the current AS-IS business processes / solutions before working closely with the RL project team and the ERP application vendor to help map out the future high level TO-BE processes. This is ahead of the detailed design phase that will be initiated in 2025.
After mapping the AS-IS and TO-BE processes / solutions, the role will make contributions to the plan for the design, build, testing and deployment phases of the project ensuring all functional and reporting activities are identified and accurately represented in the TO-BE state.
The NGT ERP project will implement the transformation across RL by region. In a key activity, this role will identify the impact on the respective business function and associated process areas to define specific interim operations requirements including reporting, special processing or other requirements to support multiple cut overs while the ERP is implemented into RL.
The role may involve some travel and will require working with colleagues of the same function in other regions. This is a truly global program, so collaborating in the Ralph Lauren way is required.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Experience, Skills, and Knowledge

• Minimum 8+ years of experience with a proven track record in related role
• Strong understanding of pricing management processes across a global marketplace and the ability to define local retail, wholesale pricing structures within a fashion apparel business to meet local needs
• Experience within a vertically integrated retail environment; fashion apparel experience is highly desirable
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Must be adept at translating complex concepts into actionable plans
• Ability to confidently engage with and influence senior executives
• Strong analytical skills: Leverages data to make strategic decisions
• Strong strategic vision but is also comfortable taking a hands-on approach to achieve results
• Can be based in UK/CH/NY/N

• Work with all the IT, business, vendor teams to ensure the scope is in alignment with expectations and the budget
• Creation of a clear picture of the current AS-IS, documenting the data flows and dependencies and integration points for the current ERP and Edge systems by region
• Ensure that the ownership (business and IT) is clear across the edge systems and that their responsibility as part of the cutover is clear. This includes identifying the need for any interim or migration activity, which will be quantified and factored into the project plan
• Identification of gaps in any of the respective process or technical areas in the TO-BE solution so that mitigation can be created (possibly at a later stage) to remedy
• Preparation of the various teams as much as possible for the upcoming mobilization. Use of engagement to educate, but also to listen and absorb and represent back the findings of the teams
• Creation of an approach to testing that will enable an agile approach to developing and releasing new capabilities that encompasses the edge systems to create a common method across the RL systems in scope
• Work with the various teams develop the high level cut over approach by system by object by phase to include but not limited to: PO, SO, inventory, financial reporting, product migration, retail locations, master data, internal controls and management standards
• Assistance in identifying training needs to facilitate knowledge required by the teams
• Development and maintenance of individual and integrated project plans, including scope, objectives and milestones, deliverables, risks and issues
• Agreement on an overall approach for the capturing of business requirements, documentation, testing criteria in an efficient manner that will allow for a more agile approach to managing change going forward

Experience, Skills, and Knowledge

• Minimum 8+ years of experience with a proven track record in related role
• Strong understanding of pricing management processes across a global marketplace and the ability to define local retail, wholesale pricing structures within a fashion apparel business to meet local needs
• Experience within a vertically integrated retail environment; fashion apparel experience is highly desirable
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Must be adept at translating complex concepts into actionable plans
• Ability to confidently engage with and influence senior executives
• Strong analytical skills: Leverages data to make strategic decisions
• Strong strategic vision but is also comfortable taking a hands-on approach to achieve results
• Can be based in UK/CH/NY/NJ