Arc'teryx Equipment

Senior Product Line Manager, Hardgoods

Arc'teryx Equipment

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$106,000 - CA$133,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Creating successful short-term and mid-term merchandising strategies (1-5 year plans) across all business units for your categories and product areas
  • Planning short and long-term line plans; developing and presenting strategies, working with cross functional partners to bring product (and product stories) to life
  • Delivering on our 5-year brand vision by hitting global sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals through partnership with the Merchants, across all countries and business channels
  • Overseeing the successful execution of the merchandising strategy for your product categories
  • Mentoring, training and supporting the Associate PLMs and PLMS across your team
  • Determining and managing the product lifecycle for each model, from development to commercialization, to eventual redesign, replacement, or retirement
  • Partnering on overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans and supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch) (sell-thru vs sell-in)
  • Providing a global product framework and assortment structure that guides merchant execution within retail, wholesale key accounts and digital channels to maximize sales, profit and global brand positioning
  • Researching and analyzing the global marketplace, identifying key consumer and market insights to inform concept work and development of new products
  • Writing and presenting product briefs for each new product
  • Developing and sustaining a close relationship with Design and Development teams during the seasonal design process to ensure products are aligned with the briefs proposed
  • Developing and delivering product presentations for key calendar touchpoints that inspire and deliver the critical information to our internal stakeholders to ensure successful development of seasonal assets and plans
  • Maintaining effective partnerships with the Visual Merchandising, Design, Development, Brand Marketing and Colour teams to ensure seasonal strategies come to life in all channels and regions
  • Working with the Global Product Education and Brand teams to ensure sell-in tools and product information is consistent across all channels
  • Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing, throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain
  • Travelling semi-annually as required

Requirements

  • You have 5-8+ years’ experience in Product Line Management, Merchandising, Buying or OutdoorRetail or Customer Service, and 2+ years’ experience leading larger volume functions or categories
  • You have a strong command of business mathematics, including skills such as financial forecasting, margin and markup calculations, ROI analysis, and interpreting key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • You are highly organized, able to effectively manage your time, and you possess strong analytical, presentation, and communication skills
  • You have strong leadership and teamwork skills, able to facilitate work across many different levels of leadership, internal departments and external key accounts and vendors
  • You are a creative and strategic thinker, an ‘influencer’, a consensus builder, and excellent team player
  • You excel at partnering across diverse teams and departments to establish consensus or drive solutions
  • You have a proven track record in developing and leading a team in the execution of a multi-year business strategy
  • You have an excellent understanding of the active apparel market within the outdoor industry, and the key outdoor activities we make product for, across climb, snow and trail categories
  • You have an excellent understanding of the design and development process
  • You are excellent in the use of Adobe and Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel)
  • You are willing and able to travel as required (trade shows, key dealer presentations, key vendor meetings, core consumer events, etc.)
  • You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
  • You are highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
  • You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
  • You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
  • You seek the best (but sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
  • Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
  • You are able to work from the North Vancouver office as required