AVP, Production and & Sourcing Operations
Victoria's SecretWhy You Belong Here At Victoria’s Secret & Co, you’ll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You’ll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy. We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you’ll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real-world experience, and learn from the best in the business. Description Position: AVP Production & Sourcing Operations Department: Global Production & Sourcing Reports To: Executive Vice President, Global Production & Sourcing Location: New York Direct Reports: 2 Your Role At VS&Co, PDP is the end-to-end operating system that takes products from concept to floor set. It encompasses the processes, ways of working, technology, decision rights, performance measures, and partner integration required to create, engineer, decide, make, scale, deliver, and continuously improve product. The AVP Production & Sourcing Operations leads enterprise-level process design, governance, transformation, and capability building across the product creation process. Working closely with Brand Operations and cross-functional leaders, the AVP establishes and evolves the common PDP operating framework while preserving flexibility for different brands, categories, product types, and levels of risk. The AVP leads the enterprise PDP transformation portfolio sponsored by the Executive Vice President, translating business needs into improved processes, differentiated product creation pathways, and new capabilities that deliver speed. This includes dashboard creation and reporting, 3D implementation, AI-enabled design capabilities, and AI-driven trend insights. The role brings together the right partners to pilot, implement, and operationalize improvements, measure results, and address barriers to sustained adoption. Success requires exceptional judgment, enterprise thinking, executive communication, strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence up and down the organization. The AVP anticipates needs, simplifies complexity, builds trusted relationships across cultures and functions, and ensures priorities move forward with pace, clarity, and accountability. Your Impact Planning, Prioritization, and Enablement Lead annual and multi-year planning, priority setting, goal alignment, and portfolio management across the global organization. Prepare decision briefs, recommendations, presentations, talking points, and leadership materials that translate complex business issues into concise, actionable insights. Bring strong visioning and a future-focused mindset, anticipating how customer expectations, business models, technology, and partner capabilities will reshape product creation and translating that foresight into a clear, actionable direction. Help focus leadership time and resources on the opportunities and risks with the greatest enterprise and business impact. Enterprise PDP Operating Model and Governance Design and evolve the enterprise PDP operating model, including differentiated product creation pathways, milestone and evidence standards, governance forums, decision rights, escalation routes, and integration points with planning and delivery processes. Establish clear requirements for enterprise PDP decisions, including supporting evidence, accountable leaders, decision materials, and follow-through. Maintain an integrated enterprise view of PDP pathways, critical initiatives, commitments, performance measures, decision dependencies, capacity constraints, and risks across functions, brands, regions, and strategic partner…