Manager, Store Planning (Temporary)

Department: Merchandise Planning & Allocations  Reports to: Vice President, Planning  Location:  North Vancouver, BC  Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:  As the Manager, Store Planning, you play a crucial role in connecting store level sales plans back to financial and merchandise plans. Working with cross-functional partners, you will lead the work clustering and location planning our stores so that they link back to the overall merchandise strategy. Your ability to understand store needs through guest demographic, product assortment, sales and operations makes you an ideal representative within MP&A and Merchandising. You will work with Store Development to open and optimize retail locations for best guest experience and productivity.  This role is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates should plan to be in office 3+ days per week. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.      Meet Your Future Team:  Store Planning is a highly agile function who are growing in team size and capabilities. We envision a capable team of planners who each own one of our core markets and mainline product categories. They work closely with their partners in MP&A, Merchandising, Finance and Store Development.  If you were in the Manager, Store Planning role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

Building and leading a high performing Store Planning team including headcount and budget management, team development and aligning department goals with company strategic objectives 

Developing our store-level sales planning tools and end to end processes 

Evolving and refining our seasonal clustering tools and processes 

Collaborating with Merchandise Planning on their buy planning at a store cluster level including sales contribution, APS planning and unit investment 

Collaborating with Commercial, and Store Development on New Store Openings and optimizations through site selection, floor plan review and product assortment assignment 

Upholding Fair Labor Association’s Workplace Code of Conduct and Principles of Fair Labor and Responsible Sourcing throughout the Arc’teryx supply chain 

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

Working on our End-to-End Planning project to develop our future process and technology in the areas of Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, Demand planning and more 

Collaborating with Store Development, Visual Merchandising and Retail Operations to evolve our store design and optimization processes 

Are you our next Manager, Store Planning?

You have 5-8 years of experience in Merchandise Planning, Allocations, Merchandising or a related sales planning function (EG: FP&A) along with 2+ years of leadership experience 

You have a degree in Business, Math, Statistics, or another relevant field 

You have experience working in a vertical retailer, preferably in the apparel or outdoor industry 

You have firsthand experience or familiarity with the core activities we build product for (trail, snow, climb) 

You are adept at using data and market insights to drive alignment and decision-making 

You excel at leading in all directions and collaborating cross-functionally 

You have experience presenting to all organizational levels and can build and adapt content for each audience 

You have experience working within an I2C/GTM calendar and meeting pre-existing deliverables 

You have demonstrated experience in process implementation and improvement, change management and have a high degree of perseverance 

You lead from a place of empathy, are comfortable giving and receiving feedback and strive for continual improvement in the work of your team. 

You are proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions 

You remain 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 (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